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  • Author: Robert Hamer
    September 25, 2011

    Read more on Circuit Round-Up (Week Ending 09/25)…

    Author: Robert Hamer
    September 23, 2011

    The culture of film criticism has an odd tendency to turn pejoratives out of things that really shouldn’t be considered insulting.  Words like “artsy,” “depressing” and “sentimental” are thrown around as a jab by too many movie reviewers without any sort of explanation for why those traits of a given work are bad.  But then I got a load of Oscar pundits.  Hoo boy, were their negative associations even more baffling.  Chief among them is a term that has gotten a bad rap not only in cinema, but nearly in every facet of American culture.  Every year it pops up a couple of times during the awards season.  It’s called “elitist”…and I’m taking it back. Read more on In Defense of “Elitism,” In Film and Elsewhere…

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