Critics, 5/14.

Sigh. Another one. Or almost. "[I]f you've been following my adventures as a film critic for a long while, as I know many of you have, be advised that that lengthy chapter of my life seems to be on the verge of closing," blogs Mike D'Angelo. From home. And not from Cannes.

"I think that some of the current discussions about the souring state of movie criticism would benefit from some thoughts about what criticism is and does." David Bordwell steps back to take in the long view.

Updated through 5/15.

"Woody Allen is an extreme example, but the critical discussion about his films evidences the dominion psychoanalysis holds over film criticism," argues Ted Pigeon.

FilmInFocus has a good long talk with Kimberly Lindbergs, proprietor of the excellent Cinebeats.

"There are thousands of stories in Print City, this is one of them..." Adam Ross's "The Blog Sleep."

A fresh list from FILMdetail: "The Most Useful Movie Websites 2.0."

RC at Strange Culture announces a "Dads in Media" Blog-a-Thon for June 12 through 15.

Updates, 5/15: At PopMatters, Bill Gibron chimes in with "An Open Letter to the Online Critic": "New technology may mean a new way of communication, but frankly, we're doing a piss poor job of getting our point across - that is, when we can come up with a cogent and coherent argument to begin with. It's time to cast off the amateurish aura given off by what many of us do and recognize the role we will play in the next decade."

"[U]ndeserved, advance pigeonholing," is one of Rob Humanick's pet peeves. "Reviewing based on pedigree isn't criticism, it's a marketing assessment."

Posted by dwhudson at May 14, 2008 12:51 PM