Stuck In Love
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Critics Vent on Film Criticism
It hasn't been a good year for film criticism. Here's a round-table interview with established film critics. And here's David Poland's plaint about the LAT hiring former L.A Times entertainment editor Betsy Sharkey as film critic. With so many unemployed professional critics out there, it seems a sh...
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My Top Ten List, Film Comment's Top 20 Poll
Wendy and Lucy tops Film Comment's annual critics poll of 20 best films of 2008:
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Screenwriting in Hollywood: A Modest Proposal
Call Nancy Nigrosh a recovering agent. After 25 years as a talent agent repping writers and directors for film and television, she left her last gig at Innovative Artists. Freed from the shackles of agenting, she wrote what she calls her Parting Shot#1. If she's right, Hollywood's days of la...
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Twilight: Will Male Critics Ever Understand Its Femme Appeal?
According to a San Diego State University study released on July 22, if things are bad for male film critics, they are worse for women.
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Lyons and Mankiewicz To Replace Ebert and Roeper
During negotiations to extend Richard Roeper's contract for At the Movies, Disney ABC Domestic Television abruptly ended the talks. Thus Roeper, followed by the show's co-founder, Roger Ebert, left the show. On Tuesday, Disney ABC will announce announced that E! Entertainment critic Ben Lyons and Tu...
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IndieWIRE Finds Deep-Pocketed Backer
It makes sense that filmanthropist, doc lover and web enthusiast Ted Leonsis, the former vice chairman of AOL, would not only launch doc-friendly website SnagFilms but would also buy IndieWIRE, the trusted New York-based indie film newswire, social network and hub.
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And Then There Were None: Critics on Death Watch
I'm late to weigh in on the news that the Village Voice had axed film critic Nathan Lee earlier this week (which was neither as juicy nor as surprising as the in-fighting that followed on The Reeler). Word has it that revenues are way, way down at the chain and at least one of our friends at the LA ...
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Post-Oscar Wraps: Cody, Madonna, Show Review
There's a bunch of post-Oscar stuff on the web today, including this classic shot of Diablo Cody on the morning after. (Other folks are dredging up dated old Cody photos she'd probably rather forget.) I too was moved by her honest emotion on Oscar night. There's also a video spoof of Cody which I de...
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WGA Awards: Cody vs. Gilroy, Coens vs. Harwood
You may recall that because of the Writers strike, the WGA Awards show was cancelled. How odd that the same day that on the WGA members are deciding the fate of the strike, they are also announcing the awards (at 7 PM Pacific).
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Strike Watch: It's Not Over 'Til It's Over
While much of the entertainment industry is holding its breath that on Saturday thousands of members of the Writers Guild in NY and LA will signal thumbs up on the tentative deal that could end the strike, there are rumblings that it could go either way. UPDATE: Here's Dave McNary's latest report on...
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