Following through on a link from last week's show, are there any other #TeamSarris members/amateur cinephiles interested in doing a monthly book club on the first four books in
Andrew Sarris' best books film criticism? They are:*
1. Agee on Film, James Agee (2000 ed., 496 pages) ("a message critic, very much concerned with what film said, and very sociologically oriented")
2. The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, Robert Warshow (2002 ed., 352 pages) ("took movies as they were, and didn’t ask them to bear the weight of social messages")
3. What Is Cinema? Vol. 1, Andre Bazin (2d ed. 2004, 207 pages) ("felt that films should have a realism to them")
4. Negative Space, Manny Farber (1998 ed., 412 pages) ("took unpretentious films seriously, and encouraged others to do so too")
(* From what I understand, the fifth book - The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thompson (6th ed. 2014, 1168 pages) - is more of an encyclopedic reference.)