The curious case of Woody Allen-- Psychoanalysis, auterism, and film criticism

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Blogs and Criticism
Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (weepingsam) at The Listening Ear
... interact? And after exploring these questions, he returns to the web - what do we find on the web What could we use more of? Critical essays! That is - he notes that while the web tends to encourage and be dominated by shorter, evaluative pieces, it is also well suited to longer pieces. A good many exist - his site is a prime example, but he cites other examples - Jim Emerson , Senses of Cinema , Rouge - that use longer forms. There are others beside - Ted Pigeon , say; the Self-Styled Siren . I'm all for it. I like longer pieces: I like posts ...

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Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (NATHANIEL R) at Film Experience Blog
... Cannes '08 kickoff. Glenn Kenny kicks off his new blog "Some Came Running" (post Premiere gig) by reporting direct from Cannes. Nice work if you can get it RT expect the Blindness tomato-meter to be in the what percentile now? Too few reviews yet NY Post has an interesting tidbit on Blindness test screenings (don't go if you are avoiding spoilers) prior to its Cannes bow miscellania The Cinematic Art "The Curious Case of Woody Allen" -good stuff Reverse ...

Links for the Day (May 16th, 2008)
Published 5/16/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... 3. "The curious case of Woody Allen-- Psychoanalysis, auteurism, and film criticism" : By Ted Pigeon at The Cinematic Art . [ "While the similarities in Allen's work are as undeniable as they are influential, I sometimes wonder whether his films actually resemble the discursive representations of them that critics have been piling up and recycling for years. The film criticism canon on the cinema of Woody Allen has reduced him to a simplified image, framing his films according to a defined terminology and level discourse emerging from the popularity of Annie Hall and the ...