CANDID FILM CRITICISM
Sir-I have noticed recently a resurgence in a department of The Listener which has always irritated me slightly. I refer to your criticisms of films. I can see what you are getting at. You are attempting to be the only journal in New Zealand featuring honest-to-God candid criticism. This must be true or you would not be using that arbitrary rating (by means of little drawings) that has appeared during the past week or so. That is all very well. But is there anyone in New Zealand, even The Listener's erudite staff, capable of saying where and how film directors have erred? After all, remember that the people who make films for us are specialists, men who have spent a lifetime studying their job. And a final inquiry: What has happened to "Gone With the Wind"? Australia has seen it. The rest of the world has seen it. Are we ever goirg
to see it? It is a matter of public interest.
FILM
FAN
(Auckland).
(Our correspondent conveniently forgets that, in writing letters to the papers, he is exercising the same right of crititism as we are when we write about films. After all, remember that the people who make newspapers are specialists, etc.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 4
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207CANDID FILM CRITICISM New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 4
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