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When Bobby Met Ariane: Maitresse

July 2, 2008 – 10:06 am

Lauren Wissot unpacks an anti-sex scene from Barbet Schroeder’s 1976 controversial film.

By Lauren Wissot | Posted in Classics, Columns, Foreign Films | Comments (0)

Critics Watch: Glenn Kenny Out At Premiere

May 8, 2008 – 11:22 am

Another week, another dose of frustrating news about the state of film journalism. This morning longtime Premiere film critic (and occasional SpoutBlog commenter) Glenn Kenny used his blog to announce that his “position at Premiere.com is being terminated.” Glenn says he’ll keep up his Premiere-hosted blog if he can; otherwise, he’s looking for freelance work. [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community | Comments (1)

Tribecafication! SpoutBlog Week in Review

April 25, 2008 – 5:00 pm

Tribeca is upon us: Karina’s preview; and Midnight preview; andThe Wackness review; and Standard Operating Procedure review — follow our continued coverage here
Already anticipating the next fest: Cannes lineup announced; and yes, of course Che is part of it
Porn sales are down because flaccid penises are up (or in?)
Burger King and Iron Man, Robert Downey [...]

By Christopher Campbell | Posted in Tribeca 2008, Week in Review, cannes 2008 | Comments (0)

How to Write Film Criticism? Stop Reading It.

April 24, 2008 – 10:22 am

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 [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community | Comments (6)

Moving Image Institute: The Deal

April 16, 2008 – 6:08 pm

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 [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community | Comments (21)

Moving Image Institute: Andrew Sarris & Molly Haskell

April 16, 2008 – 10:03 am

The legendary coupled critics talk feminism, Kael, and how the war on terror made the rise of Judd Apatow possible.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Culture/art | Comments (5)

Moving Image Institute: The Guessing Game

April 15, 2008 – 10:42 am

Today marks the final day of the Moving Image Institute (see my previous coverage here and here), and though I’ve been taking copious notes, I’ve been too busy actually participating to do much writing. I hope to get caught up posting takeaways by the end of this week. In the meantime, I’m going to throw [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (9)

Please Pay Me For Writing This

April 14, 2008 – 4:00 pm

Kevin reflects on the shifting economics of an elusive product: film criticism.

By Kevin Buist | Posted in Business, Technology & Web | Comments (0)

Moving Image Institute Day One: The Divide

April 12, 2008 – 1:00 am

The first guest speaker on the first morning of the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, New York Times critic A.O. Scott made a comment about the problematic nature of Iraq films that seemed to me to serve as a wider metaphor for the current crisis facing those of us struggling for [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (16)

Moving Image Institute in New York

April 11, 2008 – 10:00 am

I’ve had an amazing time in Sarasota over the past week but, alas, I’ve headed back to New York for my next event: I’ve been invited to take part in the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, a five day series of workshops and panels co-sponsored by the Museum of the Moving [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Culture/art, Spout.com | Comments (2)