Richard Schickel, 84

Richard Schickel, Critic and Filmmaker, Dies at 84
by Sam Roberts, The New York Times, February 20, 2017

Richard Corliss, 71

Richard Corliss, 71, Longtime Film Critic for Time, Dies
by Bruce Weber, The New York Times, April 24, 2015

Charles Champlin, 88

Charles Champlin, Critic and Memoirist, Dies at 88
by Bruce Weber, The New York Times, November 18, 2014

Stanley Kauffmann, 97

Stanley Kauffmann, Critic, Dies at 97; Spent a Half-Century at the Movies

by William Grimes, The New York Times, October 9, 2013

August application deadline for NY Film Festival's Critics Academy

Aspiring film critics are invited to submit applications for the 2013 Critics Academy of the New York Film Festival.

DEADLINE: Friday, August 9
NOTIFICATION: by September 1

Emphasis will be placed on a diversity of voices, backgrounds and cinematic interests.

For complete program information and application guidelines, click here.

A.O. Scott on Roger Ebert

AN APPRAISAL
Ebert Was a Critic Whose Sting Was Salved by Caring

by A. O. Scott, The New York Times, April 5, 2013

Judith Crist, Film Critic, 90

Judith Crist, Film Critic, Dies at 90
by Douglas Martin, The New York Times, August 7, 2012

Dance critic Tobi Tobias receives honor

While I was away on vacation this month, dance critic Tobi Tobias--my dear colleague and former review editor from my early days at Dance Magazine, who now blogs on dance for ArtsJournal.com--sent word that she had been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism!

My congratulations to the Pulitzer winner, Wesley Morris, film critic at The Boston Globe, but I'm going to continue to borrow a little of Tobi's glow to bask in for the arts of dance and dance writing! Note the historic nature of this honor: "...the first time a dance critic has been given the Pulitzer distinction for work created for the Internet...."

We're on the move!

Here's Tobi's note:

Dear Readers,

I want to share with you the honor and pleasure I feel in having been named a finalist in this year's Pulitzer Prize for criticism.  The citation reads: “For work appearing on ArtsJournal.com that reveals passion as well as deep historical knowledge of dance, her well-expressed arguments coming from the heart as well as the head.”

This year's winner is Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe for film criticism; the other finalist is Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post for cultural criticism. 

I'm especially pleased about the fact that this is the first time a dance critic has been given the Pulitzer distinction for work created for the Internet--in my case, reviews written for my column, "Seeing Things," which appears in ArtsJournal.

Readers are an essential part of a writer's life.  I thank you--friends, colleagues, and hundreds of people I've never met--for your contribution to my work.

tt

Hearty congratulations, Tobi!

Conversing with film critic J. Hoberman

"MANOHLA DARGIS In one of Jonas Mekas’s first columns for The Voice he wrote that 'every breaking away from the conventional, dead, official cinema is a healthy sign.' There was an activist element to his rhetoric, and soon after he started writing for The Voice he decided that it wasn’t enough to be a critic, he had to become, as he put it, a near-midwife, so he could hold and protect 'all the beautiful things that I saw happening in cinema and that were either butchered or ignored by my colleague writers and by the public.' He was fighting, to borrow the title of a book on him, to free the cinema."

J. Hoberman Talks About Village Voice and Film Culture
by Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, The New York Times, January 20, 2012

Independent Elvis Mitchell curates for LACMA

Elvis Mitchell wants LACMA's film program to cater to all
by Susan King, Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2011