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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The changing face of film criticism…
It’s well-known at this point that lots of US newspapers have been doing away with in-house film criticism in an effort to cut costs (the DDN, in the interest of full disclosure, did so long ago), but this is a pretty interesting wrinkle in all that…
Turns out, according to Roger Ebert, that Variety, of all publications, is now doing the same thing… This has to be one of those stories that has more to it than meets the eye. Variety exists for pretty much one thing, and film critics are the ones who do it…
Anyway, stay tuned, I guess.
BTW, I’m still a huge fan of Ebert’s writing, thinking and opinionating… He’s one of the greats, in any age of criticism. Amazing, too, that he’s held on even through all his well-publicized health and cancer issues. Quite a man.
