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Pleasures Worthy of Guilt: A Cinephile's Confession (2005), with Postscript (2009)

www.thehousenextdooronline.com - 12th Jan 2009

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John Carpenter: By Dennis Cozzalio[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is proud to reissue a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. The essay below was first published on 03/21/2005, under the editorial guidance of James M. Moran (editor-in-chief) and Peet Gelderblom (founding editor).]I was first introduced to the concept of "guilty pleasure" (one not related to the tribulations of adolescence or ruler-happy nuns thwacking out at the slightest transgression, at least) through the auspices of Film Comment magazine back in the late '70s. At that time the magazine ran, as a recurring feature, articles written by various luminaries of film

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