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Criticism Literary interludes Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Literary interlude

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. In newspapers. In columns in…

Glenn KennyApril 9, 2012

Amusement Criticism Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The war for cliché

It seems like over the weekend I've read and/or heard the phrase "star-making performance," or…

Glenn KennyMarch 26, 2012

Criticism Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

From hunger

I suppose I owe Steven Soderbergh a drink, or a bottle, or a fancy foreign-region…

Glenn KennyMarch 21, 2012

Criticism Dominant ideology Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

That's a pretty far-out lingo you're talking, but I think I can infra dig where you're coming from

I consider it slightly odd that a film website as august as Moving Image Source…

Glenn KennyFebruary 24, 2012

Criticism Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Plus ça boring

"Teachers of Literature are apt to think up such problems as 'What is the author's…

Glenn KennyJanuary 30, 2012

Criticism Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

For "Shame"

In my first piece for The A/V Club, a "For Our Consideration" late-game defense of…

Glenn KennyJanuary 12, 2012

Auteurs Criticism Critics Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Theory, heresy, coffee-table anomie

You will search Kael’s collected work in vain for a theory, a system, or…

Glenn KennyNovember 1, 2011

Auteurs Criticism Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The "Salò" imperative, such as it is

So Slate has started a "culture blog," called "Browbeat," get it?, and it seems pretty…

Glenn KennyOctober 5, 2011

Aesthetics Criticism Polemics Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Some propositions from Pauline Kael

Hollywood follows the mass audience and the mass audience follows Hollywood; there is no leader.…

Glenn KennyOctober 1, 2011

Criticism Events Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Image of the day, 8/16/11

Robert Ryan, Woman on the Beach, Jean Renoir, 1947 In the absence of much original…

Glenn KennyAugust 16, 2011

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