What She Said
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a documentary in the works; see the trailer. Advertisements Continue reading What She Said
Category: Movies
You Should’ve Heard What I Just Seen
Phil Dellio and I have started up a blog, which focuses on pop music as heard/seen in movies, television, videos, commercials, PowerPoint presentations—anywhere, theoretically, music is aligned with images. Most of the posts thus far are Mad Men-themed lists, but I’m sure we’ll move onward soon enough. Continue reading You Should’ve Heard What I Just Seen
On the “inherent contradiction of being a blind movie critic”
“I soon realized that criticism, be it of movies, music, television, literature or any other form of entertainment, allows you to work through your emotional responses to what you experienced, and by doing so you are bringing into focus the reader’s own emotional responses. It was through critical writing that I was able to see the world more clearly. I chose to be a movie … Continue reading On the “inherent contradiction of being a blind movie critic”
On the Firing of Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly
Matt Zoller Seitz mourns the loss and assesses the damage: What really depresses me about Owen’s firing isn’t just that a fine writer got axed from a magazine that he helped define. It’s that the journalism industry, if you can even call it that anymore, is unwilling or unable to support writers like Owen, or Lisa [Schwarzbaum], or… I was about to list other critics … Continue reading On the Firing of Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly
Gioia Wars Spread to Movies
“Maybe I’m bad at my job, but I’ve rarely utilized anything from my college Film Theory course while writing a review. I’m sure it doesn’t hurt to have that information floating around in the back of my mind, but I don’t think it’s particularly essential. Maybe I’m wrong? Hell, I probably am, but at least for me, it hasn’t been an essential piece of the … Continue reading Gioia Wars Spread to Movies
Interview with Raul Sandelin (dir. A Box Full of Rocks)
Because he’s so closely identified with Creem magazine and Detroit on the one hand, and New York City and post-punk on the other, it’s easy to forget that Lester Bangs’s roots lie somewhere else entirely, in the small-ish (current population less than 100,000) town of El Cajon, CA, just outside of San Diego. Raul Sandelin’s feature-length documentary, A Box Full of Rocks: The El Cajon … Continue reading Interview with Raul Sandelin (dir. A Box Full of Rocks)
