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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		1/13/2003; 11:06:09 PM
Topic:		Salon: "The war against movie critics"
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Salon: "The war against movie critics" #

As someone who loves watching movies and reading film criticism, I enjoyed reading Charles Taylor's defense of movie critics against Peter Bart's recent "screed" against movie critics. (I wish this screed were online so that I can read it for myself....)

Right now, I'm continuing on my Kurosawa obsession. Last weekend, I watched Seven Samurai for the first time and have Sanjuro and Ikiru out from the public library. I need to return Kurosawa, a documentary on DVD that I've been watching off and on for the past couple of days. Every time, I watch another Kurosawa flick, I read the corresponding chapter in Donald Richie's masterful The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Finally, I just picked up from the Berkeley Public Library, The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith IV. Films, their makers, and their critics are a constant rewarding source of pleasure for me.

Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/13/03; 11:06:20 PM
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