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• 2009 Dance Fight!

  
  Mostly Movies — Authority: 134
  A review of the best critic-on-critic controversies of the year. Anything involving Armond White is a sure bet. (IFC) This seemed to be a watershed year for the contrarian New York Press critic, whose New York magazine profile in February and anointment as the chief of the New York Film Critics Circle served as ...
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• Some Like It Aught: The Best Movies Of The Decade

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  The decade still has 11 days left in it, but I don’t think I’m jumping the gun by posting my list of The 10 Best Films Of The Decade — I hate to prejudge, but something tells me The Young Victoria probably wasn’t going to knock any of my choices out of the winners’ circle at the last minute. I drew up ...
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• Crossing the Wild River: R.I.P. Robin Wood (1931-2009)

  
  Film Studies For Free — Authority: 114
  If I were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood, I think it would be Rio Bravo . Robin Wood Film Studies For Free briefly emerges from an enforced absence due to illness (back properly soon, it hopes), to mark the sad passing, on December 18, of Robin Wood , one of ...
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• Robin Wood (1931-2009)

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  The publication of Hitchcocks Films by Robin Wood in 1965 (shortly after the release of Marnie, a Wood favorite) was the moment when English-language film criticism truly came of age. Wood went on to write other book-length studies of film auteurs such as Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Claude Chabrol , and Arthur ...
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• The Influence Fallacy

  
  Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog — Authority: 106
  There is a tendency in some cultural criticism – its rife in rock music criticism – to claim that some art work or artist is important because it or she/he influences a later art work or artist. Almost invariably, the latter is a consecrated, acknowledged “great.” Just recently I saw on TCM one of those ...
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• Flickers

  
  Bubblegum Aesthetics — Authority: 112
  John Wayne and the post-showdown smoke, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962).
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• The Shrinking Land O Critics

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  At MCN, I decided not to continue pushing the list of full-time jobs still in existence for film critics, which I put together early last year. Too many critics were writing in and feeling left out and the point had been made. Perhaps we will revisit one of these days. But I certainly am in no rush. Sean Means, ...
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• You know youre a Real Film Critic when you....

  
  Eyes Wired Open — Authority: 127
  Think Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have similar styles Call any instance of realism in film, tv or photography "gritty" Describe a slightly unconventional film as "cutting edge" Call Penelope Cruz Almodovars "muse" Greet every minor quirkfest by the Coen brothers as a timeless masterpiece of comic genius . ...
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• A Stimulus Package for Film Critics

  
  Carpetbagger — Authority: 648
  A new service aims to take advantage of the expertise of all those laid-off film critics.
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• Randy Astle on “What is Mormon Cinema?”

  
  A Motley Vision — Authority: 464
  The final and most important way in which Hamid Naficy’s theories aid an understanding of Mormon cinema, however, is in relating them back to Mormon society, including both the films’ supporters and critics. The result is a much richer comprehension of how Mormon films function within their own social context. As ...
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• Deconstructing the reactions to PAA

  
  PassionforCinema.com — Authority: 484
  (Warning:Some spoilers) As I see the various reactions to PAA on PFC and elsewhere, it is truly a source of joy seeing different types of reactions and the extremities of these reactions. Whether it is for or against the movie, the reactions seem to fall under one common ceiling; that of love—of course, there are ...
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• Mike Clark Leaves USA TODAY

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Ive often stated one of my favorite film critics is Mike Clark of USA TODAY. Not that I agree with him all the time, but each review he writes, going back to his film reviews to his current DVD reviews, was always worth reading. Clark was more of a film historian than critic, and placed each film in its proper ...
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• The Death of the Movie Critic is Greatly Exaggerated

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  A recent, widely-distributed Internet article by Tom Roston asks the not irrelevant question: " Do Movie Critics Still Matter ?" The piece reads, in part : "It becomes more apparent with each passing year: When it comes to the box office returns for Hollywood movies, critics just dont matter much. Look at the top ...
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• The Art & Science of Storytelling

  
  Textual Overtones — Authority: 111
  The good thing about putting up my film That Four Letter Word online is that I continue to get at least two emails every week (this, three years after the film released) giving me feedback. Given it’s a film I’ve long left behind, I mail back everyone who writes in promptly and thank them no matter what they ...
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• Kill the stars, bring back the actors

  
  Textual Overtones — Authority: 111
  Let’s start with the one of the most used devices in Tamil cinema– the Flashback. It will help us understand the hero better.Year 1999.After the invasion of cable TV in the nineties, housewives turned captive to the charms of the idiot box. The cinemas of the North and South acted in diametrically opposite ways. ...
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