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Diana Wichtel column: Cinema snobs had better get over it (mention)
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3558606
3 April 2004
By Diana Wichtel
The Lord Of The Rings bah-humbugs, briefly silenced by a truckload of Oscars, are stirring. Denis Dutton, in a piece in the Herald, makes the astonishing discovery that the trilogy isn't great art.
I'm not sure that many people, apart from trainspotters and the odd overexcited New Zealand film critic overdosing on Hobbitmania, thought it was. A magnificently flawed fantasy action masterpiece would be more like it.
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What makes an enduring classic? Ask sometime New Zealander Richard O'Brien, creator of The Rocky Horror Show.
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