Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"The Ballad of Cable Hogue is not particularly relevant ... few good things ever are."
WHETHER you like or dislike Andrew Sarris's film criticism will probably depend on your point-of-view. If you spend your life at the movies, if your idea of complete intellectual and emotional fulfillment is the acquisition of an ability to empathize totally with a strong cinematic personality-then...
If, on the other hand, you possess an unfashionable commitment to education; if you feel that art can both refine man's sensibilities and alter the world he lives in, then you may find Mr. Sarris's autcurist flag a more than slightly distasteful emblem of the liberal bourgeois' 50...
The auteur theory of film criticism has gone through many transformations since its initial conception. For Andre Bazin and his Cahiers du Cinema scions in the 40's and 50's, approaching a film as if it were creatively guided by a single intelligence-preferably that of the director-provided...
The most distressing historical accomplishment of Sarris's rise to fame has been his ability to turn avowed cultism into a major dynamic in a film world previously unsullied by grotesque consumer fetishism. With Kauffmann writing for the New Republic, Dwight MacDonald for Esquire, and Robert Hatch for the Nation...