Film Criticism

[mfunk9786]

Ignatiy and Christy list their top 5 films of the year on what might be the last At the Movies episode ever

[Grand Wazoo]

Sigh.

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

[domino harvey]

Jesus

[knives]

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

[matrixschmatrix]

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.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

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

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.

[Robert de la Cheyniest]

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!

[domino harvey]

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

[tavernier]

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

[domino harvey]

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

[Jeff]

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.

[Alan Smithee]

Glenn Kenny's favorite Hoberman Quotes.

[Oedipax]

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

"Visually ravishing... filled with sensuous pleasures."
-J. Hoberman, Village Voice

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

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

An Oral History of Siskel & Ebert

[warren oates]

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.

[Jeff]

Now Stephanie Zacharek has been let go from Movieline.

[Tom Hagen]

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)

[Matt]

See the dedicated thread here for discussion.

[knives]

Is any of Hoberman's writing on Ripstein available on the net? I'm particularly looking for something on Hell Without Limits and/or No One Writes to the Colonel.

[barryconvex]

Ebert writes for a popular audience. He knows which side his bread is buttered . He produces lucidly written reviews that evaluate and occasionally offer some insight into the films he touches upon. I think he's an exemplar of how to maintain a high-profile career in film criticism without either falling into niche publication or selling out to lifestyle journalism. He's a safe pair of hands.

I know this was written a few years ago but i just read it for the first time.Bravo...As i've always been an admirer of Ebert's-his great movie series got me started down the road of classic film all those years ago- i think you hit the nail perfectly....

[Professor Wagstaff]

For fans of Red Letter Media's dark, bizarro Mr. Plinkett reviews, here are his opinions on Titanic. Post a comment in the web zone if you want a pizza roll.

[dx23]

Rex Reed hits a new low by calling Melissa McCarthy ‘tractor-sized’.

[Gregory]

Coincidentally, yesterday I stumbled on this Marie Claire article criticizing McCarthy, which can be summed up as: Ewww, fat people? They're just so... fat. And expressing affection for each other on TV? No one should have to see that. It promotes obesity!
The writer, Maura Kelly, has since written a book, titled Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not-So-Great Gatsbys, Love in the Time of Internet Personals, and Subtitles That Are Way Too Long.

[knives]

Which is bizarre since she in interviews pulls off her size very well. They should at least target an ugly fat person.

[Matt]

Yes, that would be much better.