Blogueiros do passado

Na Vanity Fair deste mês, alguns dos mais influentes críticos de cinema do século XX em momentos infelizes:

"Not quite up to 'Across the Pacific'...but is nevertheless pretty tolerable."
- David Lardner, The New Yorker, 28 de novembro de 1942, sobre Casablanca

"In some ways it's the biggest amateur movie of them all...It's a monumentally unimaginative movie."
- Pauline Kael, Harper's, fevereiro de 1969, sobre 2001: Uma Odisséia no Espaço

"Brando is handicapped by poor makeup...Al Pacino rattles around in a part too demanding for him...The surprisingly rotten score is by Nino Rota."
- Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic, 1 de abril de 1972, sobre O Poderoso Chefão

"This is third-rate Hitchcock...A reflection of a most unpleasant mind, a mean, sly, sadistic little mind...Merely one of those television shows padded out two hours by adding pointless subplots and realistic detail."
- Dwight Macdonald, Esquire, outubro de 1960, sobre Psicose

"I sat cringing before MGM's Technicolor production...which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity...I say it's a stinkeroo...Bert Lahr is funny but out of place."
- Russell Maloney, The New Yorker, 19 de agosto de 1939, sobre o Mágico de Oz

"Though the attempt is praiseworthy, the results are shockingly unsatisfying."
- Richard Griffith, Los Angeles Times, 12 de maio de 1941, sobre Cidadão Kane

"At its best all this seems to me insipid, and at its worst an embarrassment to both flesh and spirit."
- Richard Winnington, News Chronicle, 5 de abril de 1946, sobre It's a Wonderful Life (confesso não saber de qual filme se trata. Aguardo colaborações)

"It is, in the last analysis, just a huge, thundering camel-opera."
- Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, 17 de dezembro de 1962, sobre Lawrence da Arábia

"We still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture."
- Frank S. Nugent, The New York Times, 28 de dezembro de 1939, sobre E o Vento Levou