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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Film Culture, the Village Voice, or the defunct N. Y. Film Bulletin has taken what he calls "passionate risks" on behalf of personal preferences, he evinces no primary need to analyze a film rigorously, except on its own terms (and that unevenly); neither does he feel a need to posit aesthetic values according to the complexities of pleasures they afford. Sarris's only overwhelming need is not critical, but psychological. The man wants a dreamworld, and he expresses his craving in an overtly irrational fashion...