The serious tip...

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• craig keller. says:

  September 4, 2009 at 11:59 pm

  A great and touch­ing post at The Auteurs, Glenn.
  ck.

• Jason M. says:

  September 5, 2009 at 12:50 am

  So very sad.

• The Siren says:

  September 5, 2009 at 11:31 am

  I had­n’t heard of these two young crit­ics, and I am clearly the poorer for that. My heart­felt con­dol­ences to all who knew them. And thank you, Glenn, for point­ing out that the future of cinema as art is, in no small meas­ure, in the hands of people like Nika and Alexis.

• Zach says:

  September 9, 2009 at 3:22 pm

  I was hop­ing this thread would really blos­som, since it’s an incred­ibly rich top­ic, albeit (in this case) marked with sadness.
  This post, and the The Autuers post that I read sub­sequently, have promp­ted no small amount of cogit­a­tion, as well as, so far, one excel­lent view­ing exper­i­ence: Lisandro Alonso’s LIVERPOOL. This flick has been get­ting so small amount of crit­ic­al atten­tion, here and inter­na­tion­ally, and it’s pre­cisely the kind of film these unfor­tu­nate young crit­ics were com­mit­ted to talk­ing about.
  It’s fas­cin­at­ing to read some of the reviews, which are mostly polar­ized, as they rep­res­ent a true struggle to come to terms with genu­inely chal­len­ging mater­i­al. The con­sensus seems to lie some­where around the film’s effect being primar­ily inef­fable, which is shaky ground for any crit­ic. “Feeling” “Tactile” “Atmosphere” come up a lot – this is exactly the kind of film that crit­ics should be giv­ing their A game to, since it’s these films that are the most dif­fi­cult to talk about without sound­ing either pre­ten­tious or vague.
  Anyway, I’m won­der­ing if folks around Some Came Running (includ­ing, obvi­ously, our host) have had a chance to see it, and if so, what they thought.