Joanna
Brian Charles Dauth wrote:
>
> She saw films as trashy fun. She was more of a reviewer than critic.
>
> Her avowed mission was to save film from being conceived of as art.
> She was fiercely and proudly anti-intellectual (which accounts for her
> popularity in certain circle). Whenever a filmmaker she championed
> started getting too much serious regard, she turned on him -- Altman,
> Scorsese, Coppola, DePalma to cite just four examples.
> She was also thoroughly anti-auteurist. She just saw movies once and
> said that is all anyone ever needed to see a movie to know all about it.
>
> The lack of rigour in her writing is appalling.
> Brian
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