Which film critics do you trust (if any?)

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No, not Guy Maddin either.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Howard Hampton, maybe.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Also David Thomson IS (IMHO) great if you want to read about a certain kind of film (or more specifically a certain kind of actor).

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Bradshaw can be funny but he's more often frustrating. i tended to either strongly agree or strongly disagree with his reviews but i'm not sure any more since i don't go and see movies (and don't really miss it). Philip French is the worst, he just gives a plot summary these days.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Kent Jones? He did the hilarious 'fingerbanging the origin of the world' blurb for Anatomy of Hell.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Thomson is one of the few critics who seems to think aloud while writing and is still compelling.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't really "trust" him, but David Ansen from Newsweek is kinda useful cuz he seems to be EXACTLY in tune with the going critical consensus on a film...he's a one man Metacritic!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

that was an xpost about the Film Comment writer

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

You've got be able to properly deploy your "Bressonian"s and "Brechtian"s.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

If I can Brecht it down for just a second here.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't imagine liking David Thomson unless you want to consistantly read about how disillusioned with cinema he is and how any new celebrated (non-American) filmmaker will never rival the old masters.

(you're right though, his writing on acting is great.)

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Except Wes Anderson, apparently!

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

David Thomson is totally one of those people who I can imagine playing his own wife in drag.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course I do that all the time, which is why I can spot it so easily.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no idea who any of these people you guys are talking about are.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, if you put down Fangoria for just a second...

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Gavin Smith has sat in my row at films twice this year, and fidgets too much.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha what makes you think I read Fangoria?

― 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

...Do you?

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't remember the last time I saw a movie wholely because of a review I read. I can't stand reading movie reviews though for the most part.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I see Gavin Smith at Film Forum pretty frequently.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I don't.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Reviews are better after you've seen the movie.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Reading film criticism is about as fun as watching paint dry. I like interviews with directors occassionally, but only when the interviewer does not ask the director about HIS PROCESS.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha.

WHY?

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I used to see GS at screenings allatime as well.

You're a hard man, Alex.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Because it's such a vague and stupid question and directors always give the lamest answers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I generally skip interviews and read tons of criticism (generally after I've seen the movie--though I read the whole Voice and Chicago Reader sections when they come out).

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I like good film criticism. It's like any good writing. There's just not enough of it. I like it when it's creative and funny and contrary and mad.

I am here all afternoon to pepper your board with the obvious.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"I like good film criticism."

Of which there is basically like none.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

That's not true at all. (You said yourself you don't read any and haven't heard of any of the critics listed!)

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

This is just what he's like.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Colin and I are leading parallel lives (sorry, bub).

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

alex's compulsion to keep talking on this thread despite stating he hates everything is interesting to me.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

not as interesting as watching paint dry though

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i find it queer.

― the jaymcfox (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Paint is hilarious!

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

nabisco otm

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

uff, sorry wrong thread!

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

but sooner or later he'll post here and he'll be otm.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I thought that was a joke about how everybody says "nabisco otm", even when the context doesn't warrant it!

It was hilarious.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i enjoyed that joke.

― the jaymcfox (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

It was. But then I tried to cover my tracks.
(xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

But why would you do that?

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i think ken was trying to cover his tracks.
(xpost!!!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

see, like that. that wasn't really an x-post. but i made it look like it was. it's fun.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a joke and then I thought of another joke and then I needed to set it up

(multiple xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I revived this thread only so I could quote Dave Kehr and imply that Williamsburg Noise Dudes watch Bullitt just to butch up.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

What's "Williamsburg"?

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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