Thanks. There'll be a Q&A here too, with the director (good) and some local critics (maybe not).
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit stanley kauffmann is 95 years old. and still writing completely forgettable prose.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
it pays not to have far to fall
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
Wesley Morris wins Pulitzer.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I've never read him. He had some segments in the film-critic documentary mentioned above--seemed pretty level-headed.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
David Edelstein (heretical Paulette).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
stay far, far away from anyone who has ever been called a 'paulette.'
dave kehr is good.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Hoberman still writing here and elsewhere:
http://www.tabletmag.com/author/j-hoberman/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
i've been getting hoberman and rosenbaum mixed up for a zillion years. rosenbaum's retired right?
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
He has a blog.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
what specific thing is that
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:06 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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