Articles tagged "film criticism"

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Curtain falls on quality; new show thumbs its nose at quality criticism

by Christopher Borrelli [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.Aug.08] :. Last weekend, when Roger Ebert severed ties with the nationally syndicated movie review show that had been his broadcast pulpit for most of its 33 years, when jumpy Richard Roeper (who replaced lanky...

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Books Review

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

by Michael Antman

[15.Aug.08] :. This superb small novel isn’t about war or politics at all, but about, in the face of guilt and horror, choosing whether to die and how, if that is the choice, to live.

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Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism by Kent Jones

by David Sterritt

[23.Jan.08] :. What matters isn’t whether you or I agree with Jones, of course, but whether his writing offers new insights into the films and directors at hand.

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Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

by Michael Buening

[4.Jan.08] :. On censorship he says: "It tended to be assumed in European films that human beings were born with sexual organs and at a certain point in their lives began to use them, not always in socially approved ways."

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