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October 28, 2005

Authority-exuding quirkiness: Wells blurbs film snob-crib squibs

One more reason to avoid Google BlogSearch: to avoid exposure to dubious compliments. Jeff Wells is first on the block to blurb the February 2006 release of the David Kamp-Steven Daly crib, "The Film Snob*s Dictionary." There's a bit of what he quotes quoted over at Movie City Indie. The arched eyebrow starts its slow upward progress here:

Wells reminisces about his early career insecurities, saying that he got past them "partly out of a realization that certain elite critics lived on the planet Neptune. I came to realize that although they knew what they knew and had a brilliant way of saying it, their views weren't any better than mine... If it were my book I would have mentioned other Neptuners (B. Ruby Rich, Jim Hoberman, Ray Pride, Armond White, Robert Koehler, Emanuel Levy) -- each of whom, it could be argued, are fascinating in their authority-exuding quirkiness. There's certainly no slight in saying these people should have been included. Film Snobbery is an excusable neurotic outgrowth of being an extra-passionate Film Buff, and every Neptuner I've mentioned in this [graf] is a fine writer and respected scholar, so let's not have any arched backs." [His column lacks permalinks; search for "Snob Aesthetics" on this page.]

Posted by pride at October 28, 2005 11:23 AM

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