I have some disagreements with Quentin Tarantino on some things (mainly, John Ford), but goddamm is a he good film critic. If he's really retiring after his tenth film, I hope he writes a film book or does some documentaries on movies a la Scorsese.http://thenewbev.com/blog/2019/03/ulzanas-raid/ …
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A well thought out response to Quentin on John Ford from Kent Jones:https://www.filmcomment.com/article/intolerance-quentin-tarantino-john-ford/?fbclid=IwAR3XhCx2qESa0jBsemT7yWNMhze0w8_g-EHGfjLwJZnzVWzZmg8Wq7-ayJ0 …
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Jones' piece referenced critic James Agee writing about "Birth of a Nation," so I looked the piece up. Omfg. (1/2)
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“Today, The Birth of it Nation is boycotted or shown piecemeal; too many more or less well-meaning people still accuse Griffith of having made it an anti-Negro movie. At best, this is nonsense, and at worst, it is vicious nonsense.” - James Agee (2/2) https://www.thenation.com/article/dw-griffith-remembered/ …
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James Agee remains the worst "important" critic to ever write about movies. An absolute mental unit, he was wrong about everything. Yes, he wrote a good novel, and Huston and Laughton got good screenplays out of him, but he had no real appreciation for cinema. A true dunce.
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And before I get a reply that says "everything?" and you find a review I do agree with, let me backpedal a bit: Agee was only wrong 98% of the time.
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This is from Joseph McBride's "Searching For John Ford." (p. 455)pic.twitter.com/GdrodjEeox
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Your comments about the GOP/Beto St. Patrick's Day tweet the other day and who gets to be white and who doesn't came to mind when I reread that. Agee was a WASPy Southerner himself, and his pro-"Birth" and Ford-hating anti-Irishness give me the creeps.
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