He has a blog. --World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius)
Yup: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Edelstein and Zacharek of the glossy critics; Rosenbaum, Thomson, Taubin, Kenny, and the Slant crew elsewhere.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
david bordwell's blog is gd
usually enjoy jonathan romney's contributions to sight and sound
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ive been reading bordwell's blog lately. that guy knows his shit!
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Bordwell is great for a specific thing. It's funny how much academics hate him though.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
what specific thing is that
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
afaik academics partic hate the classroom popularity of bordwell's Film Art: An introduction bk, and esp the 'formalist'/historical approach to film reading offered therein (as opposed to the more politically engaged/textualist wing of robin wood, andrew britton etc). for me, film art is a p valuable introductory text to certain questions that are worth raising and thinking abt in relation to film, but obv its not the whole story, doesn't pretend to be, tho' it is polemical in intent, i guess (it also has some v well chosen images/examples that have, along w/ the relatively accessible content/style, made it a popular film studies 'tool'.) i really like bordwell's bk on ozu, and in the 80s i attended a personally revealatory ozu season at the nft that he curated and introduced. so yay.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
oh and tim lucas usually writes abt interesting films on his blog:
http://www.vwpro.blogspot.co.uk/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
David Hudson, keeper of the Mubi Notebook, will now be giving you essential daily news (ie, Sl4nt links) here:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/welcome-to-keyframe-daily/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Stephanie Zacharek deep6'd at Movieline
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Found out yesterday – it sucks.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 June 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
also, Jim Emerson slaps around this David Carr person who I'm glad I've generally ignored up til now:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2012/06/ao_scott_on_criticism_this_is_.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Carr is the primary subject of that Page One doc about the NYT, IIRC.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
He's also awesome in that scene where she smacks down the Vice assholes.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
well now we know he likes to say ridiculous things about film criticism.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah. Carr is worth reading though.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/scottharris/100064232/lets-drag-film-criticism-out-of-the-snark-ages-2/
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
One email even linked to its author’s “takedown of Paul Blart: Mall Cop”, a piece that had been posted about three months after that movie was released, which is to say about two months after it was forgotten.
Way to avoid open-mike-night stylings.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
Should he even be calling it criticism since he is mostly referring to internet flash mob? Also, lol at someone writing in Britishes newspaper complaining about snark.
― Can we be shown Zardoz + Nick Lowe? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 June 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
post in here in case people missed the other thread: RIP Andrew Sarris
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/movies/andrew-sarris-film-critic-dies-at-83.html?pagewanted=all
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I admired AS's unapologetic Francophilia. In '96-97 he even did top-10 French lists for the year.
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/sarris.html
Also, he helped me learn to love silents, screwball, and Fassbinder.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Andrew Sarris RIP
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't realize Hoberman has a new collection coming out:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1042-film-after-film
(Big photo.) He's going to be in Toronto for a signing on the 9th, so, even though I hate getting mixed up with that whole film-festival crowd, I will make an effort to get out to that.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
First Andrew Sarris, then Judith Crist also died this summer.
― Josefa, Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
podcast with extensive interviews with film critics/bloggers. i've listened to the Keith Uhlich one and it was enjoyable. http://www.thecinephiliacs.net/
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 1 September 2012 05:41 (eleven years ago) link
He's a bro and super gay.
― Eric H., Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
he goes hard after A Single Man. it was funny.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
we all should
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
where does Hoberman write now? (after being dismissed from Village Voice?)
― nostormo, Saturday, 1 September 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Rosenbaum @ Reddit right now:http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/znx0q/iam_jonathan_rosenbaum_writer_film_critic_ama/
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
the hoberman is just a collection of previously-published essays.
nowadays he writes for various online and offline sources, e.g. art forum, the guarian....
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
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― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
rosenbaum didnt respond
Love how he's such a caricature of himself.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
He's always refusing to answer questions about anal.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
omg, I could poll each and every one of these blurbs: https://twitter.com/FakeShalit
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
g news here:
The Circle also announced three new members in Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine), Nick Pinkerton (Village Voice) and Keith Uhlich (Time Out New York).
http://www.indiewire.com/article/new-york-film-critics-circle-move-awards-vote-to-december-3rd-add-new-members
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
I trust all three. De Palma's best director award is all but certain now!
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
bet he would trade it for functioning software at the NYFF.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ebiri did an episode of the Cinephiliacs and talked about Barry Lyndon. I liked him.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
J.Ro on the late Elliott Stein
And his monumental essay “My Life with Kong,” which appeared years later in the February 24, 1977 issue of Rolling Stone, had impressed me so much that I wanted to include it in my first book, a personal memoir...
!
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=32473
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/republican-election-woes-blamed-on-pauline-kaelism
At Politico, Jonathan Martin has a long essay on the reasons for Republicans' poor showing at the 2012 elections. While older GOPers are wallowing in shock and denial, younger Republicans are looking inward, and accusing their own party of cocooning itself inside a bubble of its own hype and manufactured outrage. "The party," Martin says, "is suffering from Pauline Kaelism."
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 12 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Think they might have a bit of a John Simon problem too--a little out of step with this newfangled world. (Not necessarily a bad thing in a critic.)
― clemenza, Monday, 12 November 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
The problem is the reference is wrong. Every fool who cites Kael omits the rest of her quote.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
clem, i can't believe someone who gives Iranian and Asian films from the '90s no cred would take such a stance.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't even get the bollixed reference, having swatted it aside here
Pauline Kael
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
I have nothing against Iranian or Asian films of the '90s--I'm working my way through these things, lots of time. (I assume you're extrapolating from the '90s list I posted yesterday.) Anyway, if it seems I'm agreeing with the Kael-Republican analogy, I wasn't--just wanted to make the Simon comparison.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
When I first looked at the Politico quote yesterday, I thought it meant cocooned in the sense of Kael surrounding herself with like-minded Paulettes (exaggerated or not). But you're right, it's in reference to the alleged Nixon quote.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
Best Elliott Stein obit I've seen (I went to a number of those BAM Cinemachats):
"After the chat for Exorcist II, someone stood and said how much they didn't like the film when they saw it on first release, how they didn't like it years later when they saw it on TV, and how they still didn't like it. I think the guy was half-expecting a defense, but at that point Elliott just said 'So, why are you here?'"
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/11/post_36.php
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 November 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
Almost put this in a Greil Marcus thread, but I suppose it more properly belongs here--long interview with David Thomson:
http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1162&fulltext=1&media=#article-text-cutpoint
Great anecdote from Marcus about the '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and his daughter Emily.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 November 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link