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August 2007 ArchivesIngmar, we hardly knew ye. But we knew ye critics–among them Film Snob co-author Lawrence Levi, who, in his Looker blog, offered a contrarian if respectful take on Bergman’s oeuvre. This prompted a somewhat bitter riposte in Looker’s comments section from Glenn Kenny, a reviewer for the (now) Web-only magazine Premiere, using words pinched from the intro to The Film Snob’s Dictionary. And then it all turned out to be a misunderstanding. Kenny’s ire had been raised by a post in Jeffrey Wells’s Hollywood Elsewhere blog, in which Wells attributed our summary of Snob attitudes towards Bergman to us, rather than to the Snobs we lampoon.* Kenny nobly retracted his riposte. And then Antonioni, in a shrewd comment on the absurdity of it all, croaked. Mime tennis, anyone? * Wells, bizarrely, also calls Levi’s co-author Martin Kamp, rather than David Kamp. August 01, 2007 More Film Snobbery »
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Morricone, Ennio. Prolific Italian composer of music for films, most notably his old schoolmate Sergio Leone’s famous spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Though Morricone continues to churn out scores for both Hollywood and European movies, it’s his atmospheric 1960s work that has made him the patron saint of such upscale-Snob mood-musicians as Goldfrapp (whose icy-cool chanteuse, Allison Goldfrapp, thanked “Ennio” in her first album’s sleeve notes). Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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