Remembering John Hughes. Today in Film Bloggery 08/06/09
posted 3 months agoRIP John Hughes (1950-2009). The film blogosphere remembers a film icon.
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RIP John Hughes (1950-2009). The film blogosphere remembers a film icon.
As of this writing, no film at Cannes has yet managed to surpass Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, which premiered three days ago, as the hot topic of conversation. In fact, the chatter began before the movie screened: there was a palpable level of excitement days ago about a main Competition title, in English, from a [...]
Here’s what I would like to learn from a movie about film critics: What makes them pertinent to the needs of society? Has the self-empowering progress of the blogosphere endangered the future of the profession? Most importantly, what kind of a fascinating loon do you have to be to watch movies all the time?
You will [...]
It’s an un-critical celebration of out-of-control adolescent male id. No wonder certain websites are, as they say, all up on its jock.
The weekly documentary series Stranger Than Fiction, curated by the Toronto Film Festival’s Thom Powers and hosted at Manhattan’s IFC Center, wrapped up its Spring 2008 season last night with a screening of two rarely seen films directed by Albert Maysles, a Q & A with the octogenarian documentarian, and the obligatory after-movie cocktail session. [...]
“The ideal is to have your job be something that doesn’t feel like a job, and that was the case for me for years with print criticism. It’s not the case anymore.”
I saw The Wackness (which has its New York premiere tomorrow at the Tribeca Film Festival) at a special screening held for the critics participating in the Moving Image Institute last week. Afterwards, Sony Classics president Michael Barker was asked about critical response to the film thus far. Barker disclaimed that “most major critics” hadn’t [...]
I woke up this morning to a feed reader full of stories about film criticism, many of them blog posts in response to the latest bit of polemic from Armond White. It’s a prolonged screed against contemporary critics––young, old, print, web––anyone but Armond, essentially. Most of it just reads as noise, and since I’ve decided [...]
The porn business is going through a rough patch, and Peter Bart says it’s because flaccid penises are more compatible with a recession. Try not to hurt yourself on the double take.
Karina spent five days in Queens bemoaning her future job prospects discussing the future of film criticism. See the A.O. Scott piece, the Molly Haskell/Andrew Sarris piece, the quiz, the answers to the quiz, the piece about compromises. Also, Kevin considers the new pro-critic model, and bad critics are punished severely.
Marilyn Monroe has a sex [...]
Less “dead white man”, more “existential philosopher.” Plus: a new film club on the web, and musings on the making of a porn star. Sort of.
Uwe Boll suggests that special effects artists are the true auteurs behind modern movies.
Over our five days at the Institute, we kept returning to a series of binary oppositions: print versus online; doing it for the passion versus doing it for the pay; criticism as consumer reporting versus advocacy for artists. With such circular questions, it’s hard to get anywhere, making it easy to lapse into what [...]
The legendary coupled critics talk feminism, Kael, and how the war on terror made the rise of Judd Apatow possible.
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We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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