May I refer to M. Farrugia’s unfair comments in the 3 August issue of MaltaToday, regarding us film critics.
I have been one for at least the last 35 years for a local Maltese daily, and so may be the most senior amongst those attending KRS screenings regularly.
During all these years I have always written what I felt about films distributed by the said company, and so, in more than one instance, I found myself in disagreement, and had my friend Eric German’s same problems with said distributors.
I never expected the support of my colleagues because I know that there always was the chance that they would not get their papers’ backing. As a matter of fact I have to disagree with Farrugia (who honestly I cannot remember attending) because there has never been any sort of boycott by us critics against KRS, at least in all these years I have been attending.
What I expected, and always got, was my paper’s editor and proprietors’ support, which I always got.
So there is no place for the arrogant and vulgar remarks Farrugia used in our regards, and which prompted me to write in the first place.

Joe Calleja
Qormi