Quick take: Film Criticism in Crisis? panel
“My blog started as a catalog of what I watch. I just watch a lot of films and try to capture everything.
–Pascual Espiritu aka Acquarello of Strictly Film School
“The internet makes it much easier for audiences to be educated.”
“It’s possible for film critics to become advocates for certain types of films.”
-David Hudson, Green Cine Daily
“I don’t want to always have to be objective.”
-Seong-Hoon Jeong, former critic for Korean film weekly Cine 21
“I don’t think there’s such a thing as the “average” reader or the “average” viewer.”
-Emmanuel Burdeau, editor, Cahiers du cinéma
“Pauline Kael led a national conversation about film, and at a certain point, that all disappeared.”
-Kent Jones, Film Comment’s Editor-at-Large
More to come…
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