Category: Disappearing critics
An online catfight
November 17th, 2009Anne Thompson has stirred up a little hornet's nest over on her IndieWire blog, Thompson on Hollywood, with some sharp barbs regarding the situation at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Thompson (pictured) reported last week's news that LA Weekly fil… more »
Another critic joins a festival
November 12th, 2009Scott Foundas, movie critic at LA Weekly (and one of the Cricket's Sundance Film Festival pals), is leaving the critic game to become associate program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the folks who run the prestigious New York Film Festiv… more »
A critic's new gig
November 10th, 2009Longtime Newsweek film critic David Ansen — who took a buyout in March 2008 (and is No. 31 on the Cricket's list of "The Departed" movie critics) — has a new gig.
Ansen has been picked as artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, set for next… more »
The departed: Mary Pols' second act
August 4th, 2009Being an ex-movie critic can be a blessing sometimes. Mary F. Pols was the movie critic at the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune, when she took a buyout in March 2008. (She's No. 29 on the Cricket's list of 58 movie critics at print publications… more »
The departed: No. 58, Carla Meyer
July 16th, 2009The Sacramento Bee's film critic Carla Meyer went on vacation last month, after filing her review of "The Proposal." When she got back, according to this post by Cosmo Garvin in the alt-weekly Sacramento News & Review, Meyer had a new job —… more »
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