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December 19, 2006
Crickets' Greatest generation? Koehler admires
Estimable cricket Robert Koehler surveys the elders of the tribe for Variety, suggesting that we are in the waning days of film crickets' "greatest generation". "While many still produce at a level that 
would put younger colleagues to shame, an elder generation of film critics that has held a powerful influence in the field is gradually, very gradually, passing from the international film scene." Among those surveyed for whom "age seems to provide no barrier for critics with intellectual energy to burn": WSJ cricket Joe Morgenstern (reviewing since 1959); in Japan, Shigehiko Hasumi (70), and Donald Richie (82); Brazil's Jose Carlos Avellar; from France, Raymond Bellour, Michel Ciment (78), from the US, Roger Ebert (64), Molly Haskell (67), 50-year New Republic stalwart Stanley Kauffmann (91 in April), Italy's Tullio Kezich (78), as well as Andrew Sarris (78) and Canada's Robin Wood (76 in February), and living on the Internet, Jonathan Rosenbaum (64). [Koehler's greatest heights at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at December 19, 2006 02:53 PM
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What about David Thomson (66)? Everytime MCN links to a story or review by him, I make a point of reading it. One of the few critics that I read on a semi-regular basis. Not to mention his Biographical Dictionary books.
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at December 22, 2006 06:52 AM
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