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Post by dirtypillows on Dec 14, 2019 2:00:22 GMT
As soon as I read your post, I recalled it must have been IY who did not care for Peary. Go figure. I liked DP a lot also. Such fun and interesting observations! He didn't seem snooty, either. My favorite film critic, after Pauline Kael, of course. Yes, it figures! What a depressing lump of lard the eyeball would've been to be around. Everything would have been contradicted.
With critics, it is not so much their opinion, because it is all subjective, but the manner of delivery and quality of writing that sells their opinion. Kael was good at looking at why she felt things did or didn't work. Peary was honest and passionate and came across as a genuine, open and nice guy.
Yes, for sure. A rare quality in a critic. He does seem like a nice guy. Very relaxed and upbeat as well. Almost the opposite of cynical. Pauline Kael was such a good, exciting writer. I could recommend her 1968 essay "Trash, Art and the Movies" to anybody.
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