― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Call it a hunch.
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
WHY?
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
You're a hard man, Alex.
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I am here all afternoon to pepper your board with the obvious.
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Of which there is basically like none.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Reading film criticism is about as fun as watching paint dry.
Alex quoting a Gene Hackman private-eye character pretending to be an Eric Rohmer critic! C'mon man, that's extreme -- there is no good MUSIC criticism...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― the jaymcfox (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
It was hilarious.
xp
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― the jaymcfox (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
(multiple xpost)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
(If I haven't ruined the joke for you by now, here's the stake-driver's confession: at the very start I thought the jaymcfox WAS the nabiscofox, causing the now-classic ILX-meme to flood my brain)
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
really don't like Zacharek anymore. don't get Thomson a-tall
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, David Thomson would do a good job of that yes.
― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes well, I was exagerrating. I just haven't heard of David Thomsom and Kent Jones.
I guess what it comes down to is that film criticism is inadequate for making me want to go see a movie. It's better for explaining/discussing a film after I've seen it, but usually by the time I have seen it I don't want to read about it as much as I want to talk about it. Music criticism is the exact opposite though. Music criticism makes me want to hear (or not hear) music.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Zacharek, like Kael, I've liked for the writing more than the taste.
Like some have said, I read critics in detail to crystallize my feelings about a film after I've seen it. Just saw this rather baffling Claire Denis film The Intruder and I'm at sea given the absence of available discussion about it.
Cheshire was so good in NY Press; does he have another gig?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link