Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!Hamilton.ES@XEROX.ARPA From: Hamilton.ES@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Critics Message-ID: <12692@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 22:54:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12692 Posted: Tue Aug 21 22:54:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 02:08:11 EDT Lines: 25 From: Bruce HamiltonMichael Ventura, of the LA Weekly, is light-years beyond all others. He is both impassioned and articulate; and I even agree with him much of the time. Ventura walks a dangerous line toward becoming too preachy and emotionally involved with the films and filmmakers he writes on, but his prose is so fine, that I can't take him to task. Does anybody know what happened to Myron Meisel, who used to write for the LA Reader a few years ago? I often disagreed with him, but his reviews were always tremendously informative -- worth more than most film courses, I suspect. For a "mass market" reviewer, David Ansen in Newsweek is excellent at conveying to me a sense of a film in a few sentences. Jack Kroll I think much less of. I'll lay you odds Kroll is 20 or 30 years older than Ansen. It seems to me that awfully many of the over-50 (or maybe I should say over-60) generation of critics invariably affect a curious naivete-cum-pomposity which I find absolutely MADDENNING! Anybody else read Edwin Tatnall Canby in Audio? Whenever I read one of his columns, I think I'd like to take a large pair of boxing gloves and beat the @#$% out of him. --Bruce