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Looking back on the Film Criticism Blogathon . Comments on As a Preface: Andy's Letters to the "Young Turks" 3:1 (Or something...

Notes from : La Condition Critique by Maurice Blanchot (in Le Nouvel Observateur #6, 1950, republished in Trafic #2) Even if critics think ...

Susan Sontag : "It would be hard to find any reputable literary critic today who would care to be caught defending as an idea the old a...

The Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon hosted by Andy Horbal Check others' contributions and comments at No More Marriages! all weekend (Friday...

Counter-Canon : another viewing recommendation list From the reaction of Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity to the articles in Film Comment ...

To put it plainly, "complacency" is the contrary of "being critical". It's the censorship of the Political Correctne...

Screenville's Cinema-specific web search engine (see sidebar too) Thanks to Robert Davis at Errata who pointed to this new feature at ...

Continuation from page 1 and 2 . Pan's Labyrinth (2006/Del Toro) Pan's magic book. Ofelia can only read it when she's alone (i...

Continuation from first page : Pan's Labyrinth (2006/Del Toro) Guillermo del Toro composes an odd mixture of neo-fairytale... The film...

El Laberinto del Fauno / Pan's Labyrinth (2006/Guillermo del Toro/Spain) ++ Opening Sequence : Slow travelling forward (swirling?) on a...

Notes from La Critique de cinéma by René Prédal, 2004. What defines film criticism is to talk about films and ponder over the nature of ci...

Unreviewed screenings, current reading, links, recommendations, free talk, questions, thoughts, informal conversation, anything... comments ...

Iklimler / The Climates (2006/Nuri Bilge Ceylan/Turkey) +++ Shot analysis : Isa and Bahar take a sunbathe on the beach, the sun is hot, th...

Sorry for staling on this one, I'm not good at holding together this kind of wide study, it takes me time to re-focus on it. I will even...

Critical Fallacy 4 : BURDEN OF PROOF Or lack thereof... the fallacy being to expect detractors to bring evidence you are wrong. "Meanwh...

The blogathon on contemplative cinema I called earlier will be re-scheduled to January 2007 (Monday 8th)because the hasty date I originally...

Let's talk about " boring art films " I'd like to call for a blogathon on contemplative cinema, the kind that rejects conv...