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Critics vs. Bloggers, Chapter 387: The Cineaste Critical Symposium
Like Anna Karina's Sweater — ... Steve Erickson, Andrew Grant, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Glenn Kenny, Robert Koehler, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Adrian Martin, Adam Nayman, Theodoros Panayides, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Dan Sallitt, Richard Schickel, Campaspe, Girish Shambu, Michael Sicinski, Amy Taubin, Andrew Tracy, Stephanie Zacharek. Update: Girish alerted me that the entire symposium is now available online.

What Is Cinema (Blogging)?
Bubblegum Aesthetics — Via Glenn Kenny's blog, I found out that this Cineaste piece-- which I had initially heard about via the comments thread at Jonathan Lapper's blog--is now online for your perusal. It's a piece about Film Criticism in the Age of Blogging, and I highlighted my path of discovery before mentioning what the article was about to suggest that such linkage and wandering is one of the key aspects of said Age: the ability to make connections and follow tangential threads across a series of heretofore stratified subject areas, media and ...

Anita Page, 1910-2008
Self-Styled Siren — ... magazine, "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet." The whole megillah is now online, so do take a look. There's quite a range of opinions expressed. ...

Cineaste. Fall 2008.
GreenCine Daily — ... is always good news, but this time around there's one blaring headline item that'll be newsiest for most Daily readers: "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium." The ...

Same old song?
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... The heart of the newest issue of Cineaste is a massive symposium on that favorite topic of debate of film writers -- print criticism versus online criticism, critics versus bloggers, and on and on. ...

Monday Links
The Chutry Experiment — ... I haven’t had time to read it yet, but the Cineaste forum on “Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet” looks really interesting.  Hoping, as usual, to respond in more detail, but with a couple of imminent deadlines, I’m not making any promises. ...

Honorable mention
Arbogast on Film — ... Robert Cashill (glowing coolly on the left). The occasion is Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium, in which a handful of select writers and thinkers (among them, Mike D'Angelo, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Glenn Kenny, Karina Longworth, Richard Schickel, Girish Shambu, Amy Taubin) share their thoughts on the growth of Internet-exclusive film criticism and the dominance/prevalence/ubiquity of film bloggers in an age in which print critics are ever more falling by the wayside. Bob lists this blog as one of his bookmarks but goes on to say ...

Service journalism
pullquote — Say, did you hear that the current issue of Cineaste has an article on film criticism in the age of the Internet? It's true! The cinetrix kids her fellow denizens of the "film culture" echo chamber because she loves. How much? So much that she's making available a pdf of the article in question, which maintains the layout of the print edition, making it that much easier to read on your evening commute. UPDATE: The Film Quarterly piece, "Film Writing on the Web: Some Personal Reflections," which author Jonathan Rosenbaum laments is "an ...

Film Culture
Coffee coffee and more coffee — ... Last week I went to the one bookstore I was was certain carries "Cineaste" magazine. As it turned out, with a distributor going out of business, "Cineaste" was no longer available. A couple of days later, I found out that the article I wanted to read, the symposium on internet film criticism, was now online. My initial interest was based on the involvement by film bloggers that I had read prior to starting my own blog, way back in the Spring of 2005. Until I read the various entries, I was totally unaware that I was one of the several people named by Campaspe, also known as ...

Sight & Sound. October 08.
GreenCine Daily — ... 's. Stop rolling your eyes: these actually make for a fine, complementary pair. Whereas Cineaste's is primarily concerned with the present moment and the immediate future, ...

Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet
C I N E B E A T S — [image] An unexpected email from a stranger encouraged me to pick up the latest issue of Cineaste (Fall 2008). The current issue contains a long piece entitled Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium , which is also available online . I’ve become a bit weary of all the navel-gazing going on among film critics (and bloggers) lately but the piece in question offers a surprisingly refreshing look at modern film criticism and the impact of film bloggers in recent years. Two of my favorite bloggers ( ...

HND@Grassroots: Season 2, Episode 4 (22), "A Whiff of Whiteness"
The House Next Door — ... We segue from that into the recent Cineaste symposium about the Internet's effects on criticism, specifically Amy Taubin's contribution, which references Steven (so jealous!) directly. All vanity (vanity, all is vanity!) and ...

Armond Dangerous but Neccessary
TheBadandUgly.com — ... ): “That’s a great start, given that only a person who has read either Farber, or Lindsay, but by no means both, could possibly conceive of yoking the two together in this way.” Even Cineaste asks, what is film criticism becoming without managing to come across as a smug know-it-all. ...

SEEING AND WRITING (AND SEWING): QUALITY TIME WITH STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule — ... about a movie or not, I try to find interesting pieces—reviews, essays, whatnot—about each title to make available at a click, whether or not those pieces represent my own point of view. (The four-star system, a bit of shorthand from which I just don’t seem to be able to fully divorce myself, takes care of that in a pinch when all else fails. Thanks, Mr. Maltin.) And one of the critics I seem to turn to most frequently in “On the Marquee” is Salon magazine’s senior film critic, Stephanie Zacharek, whose work I have admired for years, even on those occasions when ...