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…
• 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…
• Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
• Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
• 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…
• 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…
• I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
• I never argue with people about movies.
• There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…

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