Critical Chatter.

An apparently random tangent during a recent film critics panel in the Hamptons sucked up more attention than anybody thought it needed, as I’m sure many more valuable ideas arose during the conversation beyond any sort of dubious “ranking” of critics. That said, Karina’s response was amusing, thoughtful and—for me and many of my colleagues, I’m sure—all too familiar. (How does one become a “professional”? Not simply with a salary, as I’m sure some of the critics on the Hamptons panel who freelance would agree.)

Unfortunately, the attention given to this isolated incident overshadowed a much more valuable panel that I participated in at the Woodstock Film Festival last weekend. The ever-resourceful Film Panel Notetaker did his job. Here’s a brief clip:

I tied the point I was making about the need for critics to escape a “preexisting hierarchy” into this brief piece for The Wrap about the recently-concluded New York Film Festival.

erichkohn posted on October 13, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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