TIME magazine 25 best animated features of all-time
07-05-11, 06:58 PM
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Re: TIME magazine 25 best animated features of all-time
My first published article appeared in Film Comment when Corliss was editor--31 years ago! So I'll always cut him some slack because of that. His successor, Richard T. Jameson, was pretty good, but then the magazine went downhill at some point in the 1990s, when it stopped covering classic cinema and focused almost entirely on current films and whoever the hell the Film Society at Lincoln Center seemed to be honoring that month. (I should also add, in the interest of full disclosure, that later editors, post-Corliss, rejected all my subsequent submissions.)
I kind of fell off the Film Comment bandwagon when Gavin Smith took over. The overall tone became unpleasantly cliquish and snarky. He is also in love with the writing of Nathan Lee, whom I just can't stand.
07-05-11, 07:18 PM
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Re: TIME magazine 25 best animated features of all-time
OK, I did a search on his name...
I loved his article on the Times Website:
"Do Film Critics Know Anything?"
http://www.time.com/time/arts/articl...693300,00.html
"...I had realized that we critics may give these awards to the winners, but we give them for ourselves. In fact, we're essentially passing notes to one another, admiring our connoisseurship at the risk of ignoring the vast audience that sees movies and the smaller one that reads us."
"...But these laurels factor into publicity campaigns for the Oscars and Golden Globes; often they are the campaigns. It's the way we critics contribute to the art-industrial complex. Our prizes certainly help determine which films get nominated, setting in motion the next round of ballyhoo before the final prizes are handed out. So almost all the nominees will be from worthy obscurities that can't draw much of an audience in the theater or, when the awards shows are aired, on TV."
"...The Oscars are largely an affirmative action program, where the industry scratches its niche. The show is a conscience soother, but not a crowd pleaser."
***I really liked his writing and his honestly.
But, that is how critics can get attention, is by putting out strange lists that most people in their right mind would not agree with.
He knew what he was doing by putting out his list, now we are talking about him and doing searches about him on the Internet.
Hollywood and Critics live in a world only they can understand, they only make money if people watch them or read their work.
I loved his article on the Times Website:
"Do Film Critics Know Anything?"
http://www.time.com/time/arts/articl...693300,00.html
"...I had realized that we critics may give these awards to the winners, but we give them for ourselves. In fact, we're essentially passing notes to one another, admiring our connoisseurship at the risk of ignoring the vast audience that sees movies and the smaller one that reads us."
"...But these laurels factor into publicity campaigns for the Oscars and Golden Globes; often they are the campaigns. It's the way we critics contribute to the art-industrial complex. Our prizes certainly help determine which films get nominated, setting in motion the next round of ballyhoo before the final prizes are handed out. So almost all the nominees will be from worthy obscurities that can't draw much of an audience in the theater or, when the awards shows are aired, on TV."
"...The Oscars are largely an affirmative action program, where the industry scratches its niche. The show is a conscience soother, but not a crowd pleaser."
***I really liked his writing and his honestly.
But, that is how critics can get attention, is by putting out strange lists that most people in their right mind would not agree with.
He knew what he was doing by putting out his list, now we are talking about him and doing searches about him on the Internet.
Hollywood and Critics live in a world only they can understand, they only make money if people watch them or read their work.
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