Film criticism. – Page 2 – Pacifica Radio Archives

French critics symposium from Cahier du Cinema / read by John Fell.

Prose reading.

August 24, 2025

Filmmaker-artist Anna Sofaer / interviewed by Jack Leoffler.

Discussion of an ancient Puebloan solstice marker in Chaco Canyon, which is the subject of her film The Sandagger. Also includes a world primier of Michael Mauldin’s Four Zuni Mountain Miniatures, by the Sante Fe Ensemble.

August 24, 2025

Filmmaker Gary Dewalt / interviewed by Jack Loeffler.

Discussion of his film Gemhaku-shi, about an Air Force crew imprisoned in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing. Also includes a performance of George Rochberg’s Slow Fires of Autumn.

August 24, 2025

Reds : politics or romance? / Robert Rosenstone ; with Nancy Hollander.

Rosenstone, author of John Reed’s biography, discusses the history of the film, its metaphors and its use of witnesses; art and revolution; and Louise Bryant. Includes phone interviews with Judith Evans, the post-production researcher, and Carolyn Porter of U.C. Berkeley.

August 24, 2025

Kagemusha / Audie Bock ; interviewed by Paul Lion.

Bock discusses Akira Kurosawa’s latest movie, his life and career, and reviewers’ mispreceptions about Kurosawa’s work.

August 24, 2025

Critics meet the filmmakers.

Panel discussion on filmic langugae by filmmaker Saul Landau, Joan Braderman of the School of Visual Art in New York, Cineaste edictor Ruth McCormick, Jump/Cut editor Chuck Kleinhans, and Amos Vogel, author of Film as Subversive Art.

August 24, 2025

The Critics clarify their philosophies.

Panel discussion by critics: Irwin Silber of the Guardian, Pat Aufterheide of In These Times, Julia Besage of Jump/Cut, Thomas Waugh of The Body Politic, and Clyde Thomas of Mills College.

August 24, 2025

The Deer hunter : a review / Clare Spark and Stanley Aronowitz.

On the anti-war film from a structural and aesthetic viewpoint.

August 24, 2025

Penelope Gilliatt interviewed by Anne Fremantle (Episode 5 of 5)

Anne Fremantle interviews Penelope Gilliatt (1932 – 1993) — film critic for the New Yorker, fiction writer, and screenwriter about her work and career. She talks about her recently published book on Jean Renoir, and how she manages to be both creative and a critic. Produced by WBAI’s Drama and Literature Department under the auspices…

August 24, 2025

Cinematic epistemology / produced by Richard Fioravanti.

Three papers proposing new methods for analyzing films from a philosophical perspective. |r.1. Clockwork orange is not about violence / Steven M. Cahn (40 min.) — r.2. Citizen Kane : a bridge between the theories of realism and expressionism in film / Edward Mudlin (37 min.) — r.3. Two views of Rashomon / George Linden…

August 24, 2025