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unusual facts about film criticism



Inappropriate Comedy

J.D. (Rob Schneider), Harriet (Michelle Rodriguez), and Bob (Jonathan Spencer) (who spends most of the time masturbating) host an At the Movies-style film review series that showcases pornographic films, including a parody of Swan Lake known as Sperm Lake (which features several gay ballet dancers in place of the girls).

Jeffrey Lyons

Lyons was the film critic for WPIX from 1970 to 1991, and a co-host of the movie review show Sneak Previews from 1982 to 1996.

Louis Delluc

Louis Delluc (14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924) was an Impressionist French film director, screen writer and film critic.

Mihai Chirilov

Mihai Cristian Chirilov (born December 8, 1971, Tulcea, Romania) is a Romanian film critic- one of the most influential of his generation- and artistic director of the Transilvania International Film Festival- TIFF (Cluj- Romania).

Nino Frank

Nino Frank (born 27 June 1904 in Barletta, ItalyParis, 17 August 1988) was an Italian-born French film critic and writer who was most active in the 1930s and 1940s.


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Bill Mousoulis

Mousoulis has also written occasional film criticism for magazines in the past such as Filmnews, Filmviews and Cantrills Filmnotes.

Ève Francis

She greatly reduced the number of her own screen appearances, and during the 1930s she worked regularly as an assistant director with Marcel L'Herbier as well as giving lectures and writing film criticism.

Girish Shambu

In an interview for a sub-site of the film criticism website The House Next Door in 2006, Shambu named Pauline Kael's review of Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, James Monaco's book on the French New Wave (which he read several times before he had ever seen a French film), J. Hoberman's Vulgar Modernism and the website of cinephile Acquarello as having had a formative influence on his interest in film.

Janet Maslin

Her film criticism career, including her embrace of American independent cinema, is discussed in the 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

Mandy Walker

After graduation she studied film criticism and cinema studies with John Flaus, who introduced her to several people working in the industry.

Palo y hueso

Saer was a well-known writer who was also a movie buff, and taught History of Film and Film Criticism and Aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe.

Paul-Louis Rossi

He wrote music reviews: in Jazz Magazine and in the Cahiers du jazz, and film criticism: "The Arbitrary", dedicated to Robert Bresson, published in Camera Pen.

Poète maudit

In the realm of film criticism, Jean-Luc Godard said of Alfred Hitchcock: "He was the only poète maudit to encounter immense success."

Sam Brody

In addition to his league activities, he was a regular contributor of film criticism and commentary to various left wing publications, including the Daily Worker and Experimental Cinema.

Stanley Kauffmann

Kauffmann was featured in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism where he was shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who grasped that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness".

Vachel Lindsay

His 1915 book The Art of the Moving Picture is generally considered the first book of film criticism, according to critic Stanley Kauffmann, discussing Lindsay in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

Víctor Erice

He wrote film criticism and reviews for the Spanish film journal Nuestro Cine, and made a series of short films before making his first feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), a critical portrait of the rural Spain of the 1940s.