tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post3969645768562273793..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "A Critical Condition"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-74528729694828778202014-05-13T07:47:44.239-07:002014-05-13T07:47:44.239-07:00The judging by what the filmmaker's intentions...The judging by what the filmmaker's intentions were seems to me very important. Otherwise you get silly reviews - I remember years ago reading a review that complained that YES, MINISTER didn't have enough non-white cast members. Well, of course not: the government offices it was laying bare didn't either.<br /><br />Newspaper critics would probably be irritated that no one was reading them if they still had their jobs. At Roger Ebert's film festival a couple of years ago, one of the panels was about how hard it is for many smaller films to find an audience since so many newspapers have been dropping their film critics. (The same is true for specialists covering minority sports, like tennis in the US.) <br /><br />wgWendy M. Grossmanhttp://www.pelicancrossing.netnoreply@blogger.com