2008 Crisis in links

(Photo : Athens, Decembre 2008, a real crisis)

Digest calendar of Film Criticism "Crisis" related articles/events or dealing with the evolution of cinema practice/market and the definition of what is supposed to be Film Criticism today. Don't you like the internet open access archive where you can list such a bibliography accessible instantly at once without running to the libraries? I do. This is a selective list of links starting in December of last year. Please add in the comments anything of interest that I may have forgotten/overlooked. In brackets are links to my take on them posted at Screenville.

DECEMBER 2007

• Vertigo UK : "The Belgrade Manifesto" (12-2-2007) [at Screenville]
  
• "Fonctions Critiques" Roundtable at Cahiers #629 (issue Dec 2007) [FRENCH]
  
  • "Les critiques des CdC et les forumeurs" at the Cahiers forum (12-05-2008) [FRENCH]
• "5 Steps to a Better View. Resolutions to improve NYC film culture in 2008" By S.T. VanAirsdale at The Village Voice (12-25-2008)

JANUARY 2008

• A Pinewood Dialogues with J. Hoberman and A.O. Scott (01-05-2008) J. Hoberman's 30 years career. [at Screenville]
  

MARCH 2008

• Jonathan Rosenbaum retires from The Chicago Reader (03-01-2008) audio podcast / video interview
  
• "Budding Channels of Peripheral Cinema. The Long Tail of Global Film Circulation" By Dina Iordanova (03-02-2008) [at Screenville]
  
• Responsabilities of Criticism (03-12-2008) NYU with Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin & Nicole Brenez
  
  • "From the NYU Film Criticism Workshop" By Kevin Lee (03-14-2008) part 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 [at Screenville]
  • "The Said Comes From the Seen" By Filmbrain at Like Anna Karina's Sweater (03-22-2008)
• "Movie critics: Pros and cons" By Jim Emerson (03-25-2008)
• The Reeler : Lower Your Voice: Nathan Lee Laid Off For "Economic Reasons" (03-27-2008) By S.T. VanAirsdale
  
• Variety : "And Then There Were None: Critics on Death Watch" By Peter Debruge (03-27-2008)
  

APRIL 2008

• NYT : "Now on the Endangered Species List: Movie Critics in Print" By David Carr (04-01-2008)
  
• Variety : "Times changing for film critics. Younger generation shuns print for web" By Anne Thompson (04-03-2008)
  
• "Où va la critique de cinéma?" (04-07-2008) Le ciné-club de La Femis with Antoine de Baecque, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Nicolas Klotz, Sandrine Marques [FRENCH] [at Screenville]
  
• "The Death of the Print Critic" By Kevin Carr at FilmSchoolReject (04-07-2008)
  
• LAT : "Are they still relevant? Everyone’s a critic." By Patrick Goldstein (04-08-2008)
  
• "Fireworks" By Michael Atkinson (04-09-2008)
  
• Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing (04-10-2008) With Rochelle Slovin, David Schwartz, Dennis Lim, Michael Barker, Heather Chaplin, Harris Dew, Julie Fontaine, Amy Geller, Carl Goodman, Ed Halter, Molly Haskell, Eugene Hernandez, Tom Kalin, Michael Koresky, Donald Krim, Ellen Kuras, Susan Norget, Gerald Peary, Arthur Penn, Bingham Ray, Kelly Reichardt, Andrew Sarris, Matt Zoller Seitz, Cynthia Swartz, A.O. Scott, S. T. VanAirsdale, Ryan Werner
  
  • Panel with Andrew Sarris & Molly Haskell audio webcast at MI (01-15-2009) 1h20'
    
  • "Leaping and bounding towards… what? The Moving Image Institute starts today" By Kevin Lee at Shooting Down Pictures (04-10-2008) part 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
  • Moving Image Institute By Doug Cummings at Film Journey (04-13-2008) part 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
  • "Critics v Bloggers Redux (Or: I've heard that song before...)" By Filmbrain at Like Anna Karina's Sweater (04-17-2008)
  • The Guardian : "The view: Is the film critic done for?" By Danny Leigh (04-18-2008)
  • "In a Time of Change, Pondering the Tension Between New Film Journalism and Old" By Eric Kohn at indieWIRE (04-18-2008)
• "La fin de la critique?" By Edouard Waintrop at Libération (04-11-2008) [FRENCH]
  
• Tom O'Neil bashes Sunrise in the LA Times (04-15-2008)
• "Etoiles, pouces et critiques" By Edouard Waintrop at Libération (04-18-2008) [FRENCH]
  
• Le Monde puts up Cahiers du cinéma for sale (04-24-2008) in Libération [FRENCH]
  
• GreenCine Daily : "Critics" By David Hudson (04-24-2008)
  
• New York Press : "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Movies. Armond White takes aim at the critics who write with their thumbs" By Armond White (04-30-2008)

JUNE 2008

• "Where Have All the Film Critics Gone?" by Vincent Rossmeier at The Brooklyn Rail (June 2008)
  
• "Thanks a pantload, Michael Atkinson (updated)" By Glenn Kenny (06-09-2008)
  
• "Film criticism: It's not just a job, it's an adventure" By Jim Emerson (06-11-2008)
  
• Rethinking film criticism and theory: Commemorating the 90th anniversary of André Bazin (06-12-2008) Shanghai, China
• "Tartan Films, RIP" By Filmbrain at Like Anna Karina's Sweater (06-29-2008)
  

JULY 2008

• CinEditions roundtables at La Cinémathèque Française (07-03-2008) With Manoel de Oliveira, Antonio Tabucchi, Aki Kaurismäki, Pascal Mérigeau, Gérard Fromanger, Didier Daeninckx, Thierry Lefebvre, Sébastien Layerle, Bernard Benoliel, Claire Vassé, Michel Chion, Catherine Breillat, Jacques Doillon, Pascal Bonitzer, Costa-Gavras, Sergio Vecchio, Florence Delay, Luc Dardenne, Jorge Semprún, Hugo Vieira da Silva, Radu Mihaileanu, Costa-Gavras, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Magnier, Chloé Mary, Malika Ferdjoukh, Nathalie Bourgeois, Carole Desbarats, Charlotte Garson, Alexandre Tylski, Joachim Lepastier, Julien Gester, Frédéric Bas, Luc Lagier, N.T. Binh., Bernard Payen, Alain Cavalier, Michel Marie, Antoine de Baecque, Laurent Le Forestier [FRENCH]
  
  • "La critique de cinéma et le défi internet : de la revue au blog" video at CinEditions (07-06-2008) With Alexandre Tylski, Joachim Lepastier, Julien Gester, Frédéric Bas, Luc Lagier, N.T. Binh. [FRENCH]

AUGUST 2008

• "Everything is Cinema and Criticism is Nothing" By Ed Howard at Only The Cinema (08-02-2008)
  

SEPTEMBRE 2008

• Cineaste (Septembre issue) : A Critical Symposium (09-01-2008)
  
  • "Critics vs. Bloggers, Chapter 387: The Cineaste Critical Symposium" By Filmbrain at Like Anna Karina's Sweater (09-05-2008)
  • "On Film Criticism : Cineaste" By Pamela Kerpius (09-10-2008)
• "Continuity and Innovation: Contemporary Film Form and Film Criticism" An International Conference at the University of Reading (09-05-2008)
• Film Quarterly : "The Rise and Fall of Film Criticism" By Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (issue Fall 2008, Vol. 62, N°1) PDF (09-05-2008)
• "L'état du monde du cinéma" Interview with Charles Tesson in Spectres du Cinéma (09-06-2008) PDF [FRENCH]
  
• Eyeweekly TIFF roundtable (09-15-2008) videos With Jason Anderson, Adam Nayman, Robert Koehler, Scott Foundas, Mark Peranson and Andrew Tracy
  
• "'Critic' is a four-letter word" By Roger Ebert (09-18-2008)
  
• Film Criticism in Crisis? at NYFF (09-27-2008) With Jonathan Rosenbaum, Emmanuel Burdeau, Kent Jones, David Hudson, Jessica Winter, Pascual Espiritu, Seung-hoon Jeong, Gavin Smith
  
  • GreenCine Daily (post NYFF roundtable) podcast By Andrew Grant & Aaron Hillis with Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gavin Smith, David Hudson (09-30-2008)

OCTOBRE 2008

• Sight&Sound (October issue) : Who needs critics? / Critics on Critics (10-01-2008)
  
• "The state of film criticism" By Adrian Martin at Valdivia Film Festival, Chile (10-08-2008) With Lorena Cancela, Gonzalo Maza, Iván Pinto, Quintín, Adrian Martin, Juan Pablo Miranda [at Screenville]
  
• British Publisher Phaidon picked up by Le Monde as potential buyer for Cahiers (10-15-2008) in Libération [FRENCH]
• "Film International Special Issue on Film Festivals (Vol. 6, Issue 4)" By Michael Guillen at The Evening Class (10-28-2008) [at Screenville]
  
• "Cinephilia in India: a search for love and identity" By Nitesh at Winds from the East (10-31-2008)
  
• "Do Film Critics Have a Future? Who Cares?" By David Sterritt at The Huffington Post (10-31-2008)
  

NOVEMBRE 2008

• "Movie Criticism Before (and After) Blogging" interview with Gerald Peary at BU Today (11-12-2008) about his documentary For the love of movies. The story of American film criticism (2007)
• "Active Criticism. The role of film criticism today" Cahiers Seminar at the Estoril Festival, Portugal (11-15/16-2008) With Alain Bergala, Serge Toubiana, Arnaud Mace, Jean-François Rauger, Jordi Costa, Carlos Herdero, Paolo Mereghetti, Enrico Ghezzi, Angel Quintana Morraja, Genevieve Troussier, Peter Vonbagh, Jonathan Romney, Tahar Chickhaoui, Francisco Ferreira, Nick James, Martim Dale, João Lopes
  
  • "Votre blog est nul" By Serge Toubiana at La Cinémathèque Française (11-19-2008) [FRENCH]
• Interview of A.S. Hamrah at TischFilmReview (11-16-2008) [at Screenville]
• NYT : "The Way We Live Now : The Screening of America" By AO Scott (11-21-2008)
  
• "La crisis que faltaba" By Quintin at La Lectora Provisoria (11-24-2008) on the crisis of the festival Mar Del Plata [SPANISH]
  
• Ouvrir Bazin, U. Paris-Diderot (11-25-2008) With André S. Labarthe, Olivier Faivre, Raymond Bellour, Antoine de Baecque, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Steven Ungar, Marc Vernet, Angella Dalle Vacche, Dudley Andrew, Marc Cerisuelo, Rochelle Fack, Jean-François Chevrier, Bruno Tackels, Diane Arnaud, Florence B. de Courville, Jean Narboni, Philip Watts, Seugnhoon Jeong, Diana Lemberg, Grant Wiedenfield, Nicolas Thys, Ryan Cook, Jeremi Szaniawski, Michael Cramer [at Screenville]
  
• "Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult!" By Roger Ebert (12-26-2008)
  
  • "A refusal to mourn the death, by downsizing, of the metro daily film crit corps"; "The era of the “mom and pop film critic” is over"; "The Hitsville mosh pit: Whither the film critic?"; By Bill Wyman at Hitsville (12-01-2008)

DECEMBRE 2008

• Interview with André Habib at Le Silo (12-03-2008) [FRENCH]
  
• Open Bazin, U. Yale (12-04-2008) With Dudley Andrew, Antoine de Baecque, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Steven Ungar, Angella Dalle Vacche, Rochelle Fack, Bruno Tackels, Diane Arnaud, Dominque Bluher, Philip Rosen, Tom Conley, Ludovic Cortade, Tom Gunning, Daniel Morgan, Daniel Stern, John MacKay, Monica Dall’Asta, James Tweedie, Ivone Margulies, Prakash Younger, Colin MacCabe, Jean-Michel Frodon
  
• Où va le cinéma? Inter-professional symposium on the state of cinema in Paris (12-04-2008) With Vincent Dieutre, Chris Dercon, Ariane Michel, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Caroline Champetier, Charles de Meaux, Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Emmanuel Finkiel, Gilles Gaillard, Benoît Labourdette, Eugène Green, Alain Guiraudie, Christophe Honoré, Mia Hansen-Love, Jean-Marc Lalanne, Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Daniel Deshays, Marianne Alphant, André Habib, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Joachim Lepastier, Olivier Séguret, Marcos Uzal, Jennifer Verraes, Julien Gester, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Serge Bozon, Valérie Mréjen, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Omar Berrada, Frederick Wiseman, Nicolas Philibert, Bouchra Khalili, Serge Kaganski, Eric Altmayer, Pascale Cassagnau, Corinne Castel, Frédérique Dumas, Denis Freyd, Sylvie Pialat, Bertrand Bonello, Pascale Ferran, Stéphane Goudet, Benoit Jacquot, Olivier Meneux, Jean-Jacques Rue, Roger Rotmann, Valérie Jouve, Mark Lewis, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Philippe-Alain Michaux, Philippe Avril, Joachim Lafosse, Tudor Giurgiu, Pablo Trapero, Liew Seng Tat [FRENCH] [at Screenville]
  
  • "Qui sait où va la critique : l'Enquête" Le Silo survey on film critics (12-04-2008) With Emmanuel Burdeau, Jean-Michel Frodon, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Raymond Bellour, André Habib, Christian Lebrat, Antoine Guillot, Raphaël Bassan, Christa Blümlinger [FRENCH] [at Screenville]
    
    • HarryTuttle's questionnaire at Screenville (01-03-2009)
      
  • "Où va la critique? nouveaux objets, nouveaux supports, nouveaux enjeux" Film criticism panel in Paris (12-05-2008) With André Habib, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Joachim Lepastier, Julien Gester, Olivier Séguret, Marcos Uzal, Jennifer Verraes [FRENCH] [at Screenville]
• Deadline Hollywood Daily : "Hungry For More At LA Times" By Scott Foundas (12-09-2008) [at Screenville]
• Variety : "Young reviewers put passion over profit. New voices often find themselves writing for free" By Peter Debruge (12-12-2008)
• GreenCine Daily : "Hard Times." By David Hudson (12-14-2008)
• The House Next Door : HND@Grassroots (12-18-2008) NYC audio podcast with Peter Debruge, John Lichman, Vadim Rizov, Michael Joshua Rowin, Andrew Schenker, Keith Uhlich, S.T. VanAirsdale, and Lauren Wissot
  
• NYT : "In the Big Picture, Big-Screen Hopes" By Manohla Dargis (12-18-2008) + audio webcast [at Screenville]

JANUARY 2009

• GreenCine Daily : "2009 Resolutions for Film Criticism" Audio podcast by Aaron Hillis (01-01-2009) With David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf, Matt Zoller Zeist
  
• Vinyl is podcast : "An unfocused invitation to holler on criteria" Audio podcast by Ryland Walker Knight (01-04-2009) with Kevin Lee, Keith Uhlich, Dan Callahan
• "2008 Film Crit Summits" By HarryTuttle at Screenville (01-05-2008)
• Finally Cahiers officially announces being purchased by Phaidon ! (01-05-2008)
• "Approaches to Critiquing" By Kshitiz Anand at Winds From The East (01-13-2008)
• "The Delhi Manifesto" at Winds from The East (01-16-2008)