Germain graduated NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Cinema Studies program in 2002 and won back to back First Place
awards for film criticism from the New York State Associated Press in 2006 and 2007.
I actually really like Ebert's reviews as a rule and I have a lot of respect for him and what he has
done for film criticism.
There is a hallowed
space for film criticism I think, you enter into understanding your preferences are not as valued at empirical argument.
A movie audience that has no
use for film criticism, doesn't understand it or realize that it has nothing to do with predicting box - office success or failure, and even less with predicting what you will think of a movie (most critics don't know you), can hardly be expected to understand that movie reviewing is only incidentally a consumer guide — or that the vast majority of film critics I know never even think about influencing audience behavior.
In its 20th year as an organization, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society has solidified itself as a noted and trustworthy
source for film criticism by all lovers of film and cinema.
Actually, I never thought about my «bad» «bad» (the double quoted «bad» s is not a typo) Star Trek review reflecting badly on Film Junk as a serious
site for film criticism.
In place of ascribing preferred definitional clarity, Martin immediately proceeds to offer a rich sketch of the generative importance of mise en
scène for film criticism and scholarship in providing a kind of justification for the taking - seriously of cinema that specifically addresses film style — and through this, often, authorship — before and beyond the more «literary» concerns of narrative and character.
There's something wrong with any site that would feature you, and the fact that you were brought in as a
reference for film criticism is truly sickening.
It is in this quality of perennially being a level playing
field for film criticism that 21st century cinephilia is most promising, rejects as it does both the intellectual priesthood of the academia and the oligarchic taste - making of print criticism.
I'll give it to him and Siskel — they put a human face on film critics, and probably did
more for film criticism than anyone else.
With this lineup, the selections are thoroughly guaranteed fresh and with personal approval, the selections picked by those who always seek to honor Chicago's continuing title as the best
city for film criticism.
Jim and I grew our businesses together... me, landing a syndicated radio show, «The Screen Queen»,
for film criticism, and Jim, soaring with knowledge in the fast - paced - ever - changing time of technology.
Having spent 12 years as a critic for a Hollywood trade publication, a job that required me to dash off the minute a festival press screening was over to write and post a full - length review within a few hours or less, I'm more than sympathetic to Frémaux's notion that our culture of insta - reaction has not been especially good for films, for filmmakers or
for film criticism.