Critics, 5/8.

The Nation congratulates Stuart Klawans on his 2007 National Magazine Award and re-posts three batches of his reviews: 1, 2 and 3. Earlier: Looker's appreciation.

Variety's Anne Thompson looks at the way film bloggers are "reshaping the coverage of films today. Movie publicity may never be quite the same." Anthony Kaufman, though, is "starting to have my doubts about the proliferation of film blogs," particularly the rise of the "clogger." Update: Anthony clarifies.

In an open apology to Jonathan Rosenbaum, Glenn Kenny explains the balancing act Premiere used to perform: "It's not that we don't think our readers don't know anything about Touch of Evil. It's that we don't want to lose those readers we have who don't know anything about Touch of Evil. A fine distinction, I know, but one we kind of lived by, because those times, like these, were parlous ones for print magazines."

Updated through 5/9.

The New York Post's Lou Lumenick watches Variety editor Peter Bart and his staff hash it out over the role of the film critic.

Updates, 5/9: Jim Emerson passes along an appreciation of Roger Ebert by Peter Noble-Kuchera: "More than any critic, Ebert seems to understand that the movies are made by people who, with all their flaws, were trying to make a good film. He is a tireless champion of small movies of worth, and no critic has done more to leverage his influence in order to bring those films to the attention of America."

Comments on critics, bloggers and cloggers: AJ Schnack, Chuck Tryon and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.

Posted by dwhudson at May 8, 2007 6:33 AM