Film Reviews

Yippee! I've read seven years of student newspaper film reviews and never written a letter; i read my first issue of "Salient" (it said so on the cover) and launch into a diatribe.

It's about your film review page. I'm very impressed with M. Heath. Never have I read so much bullshit in such concentration. How lucky we are to have a film critic who can crap on for so long and say so much about himself, so little about films. But what really hoses me off isn't so much what he produces as how it comes out.

We all expect published film columns to display ignorance, bias and cheap linguistic thrills. But this one is unintelligible too—an unforgiveable sin.

Your reviewer discharges words in great deafening liquid torrents. His language is half-digested. The effect is pat, but messy.

I hope he wipes his mouth between issues.

C.J. Matthews.