In relation to the article on Truffaut's La Politique des Auteurs (you can read it at the Indian Auteur website : part 1 & 2 ), I...

World Cinema Foundation (launched during the 2007 Cannes festival) press conference in Cannes 2009 ( 15 May 2009 ) Kent Jones (General Deleg...

Insularity is the tendency of critics to look outside their windows, without making the effort to look behind the corner if the weather is c...

In the latest issue of Undercurrent #5 (sporadic publication!) Chris Fujiwara Interviews Gerald Peary, who made a documentary on American F...

It's too rare not to mention. The venerable institution that is the New York Times finally shows some balls and takes a quick break from...

When did the last major movement arose in world cinema? Maybe we go through an epoch of individualism, maybe the time of ensemble momentum ...

I like it when critics break out of their ivory tower and engage with each others writings. I don't care who is right, who is wrong, or ...

Nitesh ( Winds From the East ) and his friends has just opened a new website and a community of cinephiles in India which goal is to promote...

Francophile only : Quand CNN convie un spectre de Star Wars (Novembre 2008) J'avais écrit ce texte après les élections américaines de N...

Join the discussion at The Auteurs (January 2009) with Andrew Grant, Kevin Lee, Edwin Mak, Nitesh Rohit, Alexis Tioseco and myself : Epilo...

Many times this year was Film Criticism contemplated and reconsidered, with numerous conferences, roundtables and publications around the wo...

Here is my answer to the Silo Survey I've posted earlier here : Who knows where is Film Criticism going to? The questions are a little p...

(Photo : Athens, Decembre 2008, a real crisis) Digest calendar of Film Criticism "Crisis" related articles/events or dealing wit...

I briefly mentioned earlier in my post on the Paris MoMA event : " Où va le cinéma? ", that Le Silo (a collaborative research gro...

Dargis : "At the risk of sounding stoned on hope, I offer the following heresy: The movies are fine." "In the Big Picture, Bi...