Bang Goes Another Illusion!
*RADIO may sometimes be guilty of implanting a few misconceptions in the innocent ears of listeners but it makes up for it frequently by destroying the ones listeners make for themselves. Take for instance Dilys Powell, whose talk "The Work of a Film Critic" figured in 2YC’s From Screen to Radio session a week or two ago. Now Dilys Powell is the type of film critic whom film societies take very seriously indeed, whose lightest word (and there are few of them) .fellow-devotees of The Film bear like an Olympic torch from Bloomsbury to the Bluff, the type of film critic who, one imagined, would need more than a pair of steps to get down to the level of the one-and-six-pennies. Yet here was Dilys Powell on the air giving a simple and charming little talk in a simple and disarmingly immature little voice about how much she enjoyed going to the pictures even if it meant seeing five or six films a week and most of them bad ones. And producing, what’s more, a very valid list of. criteria easily adaptable to the needs of the ordinary filmgoer. It out-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 11
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199Bang Goes Another Illusion! New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 11
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