Critic Glenn Kenny on new film HITCHCOCK, his own headline: "HITCH-CROCK!" http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/hitchcock/
At the bottom of his review: "Elsewhere "Hitchcock" lobs random, cheap insults at directors Frank Tashlin and Anthony Mann..."
These insults were fairly inane throwaway lines, tin-eared Tinseltown insider talk of the 1950s; they do little except rile up cinephiles who actually know and love the work of the filmmakers being trashed. It's a case of mediocrities tarnishing the reps of their artistic superiors.
I had a similar cinephile bristle watching an early episode of NBC's musical SMASH which largely put me off the show. One of the would-be actresses trying out for the lead in a musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe says she's watched every Monroe movie to which the guy with her remarks, voice dripping with incredulous disdain, “Even MONKEY BUSINESS and CLASH BY NIGHT?”
Yeah, even the films by auteurs Howard Hawks and Fritz Lang? (And really, trashing CLASH BY NIGHT, which features some of Monroe's best actual acting? Did anybody involved the show even bother to watch that film?)
