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7921623 No.7921623 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the essential writers on kino and how can we get Mark Kermode aka Skid-Marked Commode to do the honourable thing and kill himself?

>> No.7921654

What is kino

>> No.7921661

>>7921654
/tv/ meme for cinema

>> No.7921664

>>7921623
go back to your containment board.

>> No.7921675

>>7921623
There aren't any really good film critics. They're basically the hacks who would have done shitty literary criticism but they're too lazy to read a whole book.

>> No.7921685

>>7921664
Many great /lit/erary authors like James Agee and Graham Greene have written on kino anon.

>> No.7921702

>>7921685
Borges reviewed King Kong. He said it was shit, basically.

>> No.7921707

Commence with the Hellenes

>> No.7921709

>>7921702
I think he said Citizen Kane was shit too

said something like "It's smart but not wise"

>> No.7921722

Roger Ebert obvs

>> No.7921724

>>7921702
Here's an excerpt:

"A monkey, forty feet tall (some fans say forty-five) may have obvious charms, but those charms have not convinced this viewer. King Kong is no full-blooded ape but rather a rusty, desiccated machine whose movements are downright clumsy. His only virtue, his height, did not impress the cinematographer, who persisted in photographing him from above rather than from below — the wrong angle, as it neutralizes and even diminishes the ape’s overpraised stature. He is actually hunchbacked and bowlegged, attributes that serve only to reduce him in the spectator’s eye. To keep him from looking the least bit extraordinary, they make him do battle with far more unusual monsters and have him reside in caves of false cathedral splendor, where his infamous size again loses all proportion. But what finally demolishes both the gorilla and the film is his romantic love — or lust — for Fay Wray."

>> No.7923106

>>7921724
Prat.

>> No.7923134

>>7921661
also german for cinema

>>7921623
>looking for essential writers on an audiovisual medium
wtf are u even doing?

>> No.7923179

i like Jonathan Rosenbaum

>> No.7923297

Bob McKee.

Robert if we're not friends.

Thank you for this thread, it's over now according to my principles of thread structure.

>> No.7924642

>>7923297
kek

>> No.7924701
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7924701

Armond White is the only American film critic I read

>> No.7925502

>>7924701
Based Armond