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By December 9, 2009January 12th, 20268 Comments

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8 Comments

  • Matthias Galvin says:
    December 10, 2009 at 12:10 am

    Luis Espresso
    LIKE A BOSS

  • Arthur S. says:
    December 10, 2009 at 5:34 am

    San Luis…

  • Peter Lehmann says:
    December 10, 2009 at 6:21 am

    Glenn,
    a cinephile from Germany here. Got a ques­tion for you.
    My can­on of indis­pens­able American film writers con­sists of the names Agee, Farber, Sarris, Bordwell and Rosenbaum so far. I am aware of Kael and Ebert, but don’t think they are on the same level. If you had to add a couple of authors to my list, who would they be?
    (Of course, the implic­a­tion here is that your opin­ion is very much worth reading.)

  • michaelgsmith says:
    December 10, 2009 at 10:09 am

    Is that from the Region B Blu-Ray? Damn, I have to pick that up. Along with Le Mepris and Une Femme Mariee. There goes all my Christmas money.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    December 10, 2009 at 10:41 am

    @ michaelg­s­mith: No, it’s not from the Blu-ray (I don’t have the capa­city to do dir­ect rips yet), but I do have it, and it’s won­der­ful, and it did inspire me to grab this from an old Optimum standard-def disc. It is Region‑B locked, incid­ent­ally, so you’ll need a region-free Blu-ray play­er to watch it on. “Mepris” is region-free, and I guess the upcom­ing Lionsgate ver­sion of it will be the same trans­fer. Since there’s no PAL-to-NTSC issue to com­pensate for with high-def, the good news is that Lionsgate would­n’t be able to fuck up the domest­ic ver­sion even if it wanted to. Haven’t got­ten the BR of “Femme” yet but of course I’m drooling.
    @ Peter Lehmann: Of the American film crit­ics act­ive today who I believe carry on the tra­di­tion of the greats you cite, I think Kent Jones abso­lutely belongs among them, as does Dave Kehr, even though these days Dave’s film cri­ti­cism (and it is film cri­ti­cism) appears in the form of DVD reviews for the Times. I also like Amy Taubin, and think Dennis Lim is very astute and tal­en­ted. Both Film Comment and par­tic­u­larly the Canadian magazine Cinemascope pub­lish very lively work by crit­ics both estab­lished and emer­ging. There’s some­times a lot of chaff to pick through—some of the unsup­por­ted polem­i­ciz­ing in Cinemascope is par­tic­u­larly off-putting—but the good stuff is there, and it’s valuable.

  • Match Cuts Glenn says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    @ Peter Lehman: Kent Jones def­in­itely belongs amongst that group. His stuff in Film Comment con­sist­ently blows me away. But I’d add Jim Hoberman to your list as well. He’s keep­ing The Village Voice alive single handedly.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    December 10, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Yes, Match Cuts, Hoberman for sure.

  • Tom Russell says:
    December 10, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    I now know what the “J.” in “J. Hoberman” stands for. Awesome.