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Moving Image Institute: The Deal

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 [...]

Moving Image Quiz Answers

Yes, Andrew Sarris DOES love elephants.

Moving Image Institute: Andrew Sarris & Molly Haskell

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

Event Wraps: BlogNosh 04/15/08

Bits and pieces on the changes at SXSW, the end of Sarasota, and the just-wrapped Moving Image Institute.

Moving Image Institute: The Guessing Game

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 [...]

Moving Image Institute Day One: The Divide

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 [...]

Moving Image Institute in New York

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 [...]