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ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... engage in a national political conversation about sexism, Ophuls must be as relevant now as ever. Andrew Sarris, the American writer probably most responsible for securing Ophuls's reputation in this country, has made the point explicitly, positing an analogy between Lola Montes 's deconstruction of America's empty celebrity obsession and the political ascendance of Sarah Palin. But...
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Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Everyone who writes about film can name other writers about film who have influenced them. For me, the big three are Andrew Sarris, Raymond Durgnat, and Robin Wood. Wood, author of the seminal Hitchcock’s Films [Revisited] and numerous other works, and whose all-time favorite films include four by Max Ophuls ( Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Reckless Moment, Le Plaisir, Madame de...)...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The 46th New York Film Festival officially opens tonight with The Class ( reviewed this week by Andrew Sarris ), but soggy members of the press and industry showed up this morning for a screening of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky . The film is all about a thirty-year-old woman named Poppy, an irrepressible schoolteacher in the north of London who is (almost crazily) optimistic and upbeat...
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The "Just like I pictured it..." edition. Your Daily blogger has landed in New York City. Cinematical 's Eric Davis has a large version of that poster, by the way. So blogging of some sort will carry on through the next several days, but in what form exactly? We'll play it by ear. Meantime... David Schwartz ( Moving Image Source ) talks with Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell about Howard...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Critic Andrew Sarris has called The Earrings of Madame de the greatest movie ever. Now it's on DVD, among this week's platinum ...
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adistantsoil.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
For all their passion, Wolk and Hajdu suffer from critical vertigo, a sense that the conversation they want to enter still hasn’t been invented. Comics may be older than the movies, but they haven’t yet found their Cahiers du cinéma, or even their Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael (though Wolk, who seems to have read both, clearly thinks of himself as Kael-Man). Umberto Eco’s “The Myth of...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
DVD Reviews: Film lovers have long awaited the arrival on DVD of Max Ophuls' exquisite "The Earrings of Madame De…," which no less an authority than Andrew Sarris repeatedly dubbed the greatest film of all time -- a judgment echoed by other critics and plenty of unpublished movie buffs as well.
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... Criterion 's release, it's a "majestic package fit for the film that would make Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris swoon in unison." Continued reading Criterion's Ophüls.... Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:
