Zoe Cooper

How to Be a Movie Critic When the Movies Let Us Down From 1971: Sixties Hollywood ushered in a tidal wave of commercial romantic slop, and now bad movies are more popular than good books, Pauline Kael writes. Can independent criticism save the day?

as NPR and PBS lose funding this week, thinking of this 1971 Pauline Kael piece on how independent culture critics offer the only bulwark between the public and advertisers in a landscape full of slop

How to Be a Movie Critic When the Movies Let Us Down From 1971: Sixties Hollywood ushered in a tidal wave of commercial romantic slop, and now bad movies are more popular than good books, Pauline Kael writes. Can independent criticism save the day?

“Without a few independent critics, there’s nothing between the public and the advertisers.” - Pauline Kael (1971)

www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

go new york go new york gooo

If you're in Berlin, hope to see you there! Saturday at 4pm! trust.support

My work was possible thanks to the generous support of artist Calum Bowden and Dr. Victoria Ivanova of Serpentine Galleries Creative AI Lab, the Trust team, as well as the talented fellow participants this year.

If you're into glitch theory, designing living indexes/digital archives, Tony Tulathimutte's REJECTION (2024), or analytical psychology takes on how we define both failure and success (hint: a false binary!)... this talk is for you!

Mike Davis · Diary: California Burns

“The loss of more than 90 per cent of Southern California’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate.”

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Mike Davis · Diary: California Burns

“The loss of more than 90 per cent of Southern California’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate.”

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

hiii!