Which film critics do you trust (if any?)

Though for me the Q&A afterwards was the best part w/ good discussion.

Thanks. There'll be a Q&A here too, with the director (good) and some local critics (maybe not).

holy shit stanley kauffmann is 95 years old. and still writing completely forgettable prose.

it pays not to have far to fall

I've got to stick up for Kauffmann. From the early '60s to well into the '80s, I think he was one of the greatest film critics ever.

Wesley Morris wins Pulitzer.

I've never read him. He had some segments in the film-critic documentary mentioned above--seemed pretty level-headed.

ive never read him either but i just googled him and he sounds cool:

The Lucky One movie review -- The Lucky One showtimes - The ...
www.boston.com/.../lucky_one_is_an_unfortunate_union_for_zac_e...
4 days ago – Seeing her and Efron fumble at each other is like watching a stick of butter and a bag of flour not turn into cake. (101 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

who are some cool critics i should be reading. ive never been a guy who reads many reviews, so i dont really know my denbys from my scotts.

David Edelstein (heretical Paulette).

stay far, far away from anyone who has ever been called a 'paulette.'

dave kehr is good.

Hoberman still writing here and elsewhere:

http://www.tabletmag.com/author/j-hoberman/

i've been getting hoberman and rosenbaum mixed up for a zillion years. rosenbaum's retired right?

He has a blog.

stay far, far away from anyone who has ever been called a 'paulette.'

Majorly disagree. The more important question is, did they stay there or eventually break away? If they took the good stuff and then moved on, that's a positive.

He has a blog.
--World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius)

Yup: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com

Edelstein and Zacharek of the glossy critics; Rosenbaum, Thomson, Taubin, Kenny, and the Slant crew elsewhere.

david bordwell's blog is gd

usually enjoy jonathan romney's contributions to sight and sound

yeah ive been reading bordwell's blog lately. that guy knows his shit!

Bordwell is great for a specific thing. It's funny how much academics hate him though.

what specific thing is that

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.

oh and tim lucas usually writes abt interesting films on his blog:

http://www.vwpro.blogspot.co.uk/

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/

Stephanie Zacharek deep6'd at Movieline

Found out yesterday – it sucks.

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

Carr is the primary subject of that Page One doc about the NYT, IIRC.

He's also awesome in that scene where she smacks down the Vice assholes.

well now we know he likes to say ridiculous things about film criticism.

yeah. Carr is worth reading though.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/scottharris/100064232/lets-drag-film-criticism-out-of-the-snark-ages-2/

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.

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.

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

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.

Andrew Sarris RIP

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.

First Andrew Sarris, then Judith Crist also died this summer.

podcast with extensive interviews with film critics/bloggers. i've listened to the Keith Uhlich one and it was enjoyable. http://www.thecinephiliacs.net/

He's a bro and super gay.

he goes hard after A Single Man. it was funny.

we all should

where does Hoberman write now? (after being dismissed from Village Voice?)

Rosenbaum @ Reddit right now:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/znx0q/iam_jonathan_rosenbaum_writer_film_critic_ama/

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....

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, September 10, 2012 3:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

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rosenbaum didnt respond

Love how he's such a caricature of himself.

He's always refusing to answer questions about anal.