Andrew Sarris quotes
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“I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.”
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“Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.
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“I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.
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“There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : "A Survivor of Film Criticism's Heroic Age" by Michael Powell, www.nytimes.com. July 9, 2009.
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“I never argue with people about movies.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.
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“I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”
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“Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster
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“Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.”
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“Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.”
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“The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.”
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“Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : "Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.
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“The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.”
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“It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.”
-- Andrew SarrisSource : Andrew Sarris (1996). “The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968”, Da Capo Pr
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