Shouldn't that be blog(s).

That's why I only refer to you as "Natty Vice".

So what user name is Christy Lemire lurking under?

She goes by "Donald Brown."

Haha, burn

Just to refresh some memories:



Donald Brown has called me a "stupid monkey" for liking The Wonder Years, so you got it somewhat easy, Ignatiy.

Stupid monkeys need the most attention!

Wow, Christy Lemire hates The Wonder Years?

Sigh.

This took longer than I expected actually. Still a damn shame.

Jesus

Damn, that's a real shame. Hopefully he can get a new paper or at least live off of books.

Yeah, I'm going to make it a point to buy a few of his books over the next couple weeks. We're running out of newspaper critics pretty fast.

Hoberman was the only reason that I still read Voice. His new book about Cold War cinema, Army of Phantoms, is really good if no-one has bought a copy yet.

Indeed, when the Voice fired Robert Christgau and a bunch of other critics I thought to myself "Hoberman's the only reason left to read this paper," well there it goes!

Unless they let Michael Musto write every article now, why bother

I'm surprised Michael Feingold--one of the few decent theater critics left--has survived these periodic purgings

Someone on YouTube dug up this rare gem: SCTV gives its take on film criticism with a roundtable discussion between Andrew Sarris (John Candy), Judith Crist (Catherine O'Hara), Pauline Kael (Andrea Martin), Rex Reed (Eugene Levy), and John Simon (Dave Thomas). One thing I'll always love about SCTV is their love of esoteric bits like this

Hoberman's voice will be sorely missed, but hopefully not for long. Like most of the other critics who've been unceremoniously unloaded in the past five years, he has started a blog.

Glenn Kenny's favorite Hoberman Quotes.

Just received my Kino Film Socialisme blu and the front cover's sole blurb is:

Hard to think of a better way to go out, at least.

A list of the 20 greatest films never made from Film Comment. The on-line version actually has footnotes and links that they could not accommodate in the print edition.

The decennial Sight and Sound poll is out:

The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)
5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

The Directors’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
=2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
=2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
=7. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
=7. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)