Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

@janetmaslin.bsky.social

Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.

18,809 Followers 226 Following 309 Posts Joined May 2023
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You might think otherwise if you watched it. And I loved her music from the get-go. But she was staggeringly self-destructive.

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2 days ago

Being the vainest party guy and biggest spendthrift in government may not be the best idea right now. That’s somebody else’s job.

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3 days ago

Sold.

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3 days ago

Gimme one more F, Joe. I used up the last one decades ago.

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1 week ago

Try it.

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2 weeks ago

Check your credit card to see who bills you.

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2 weeks ago

SO tired.

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2 weeks ago

Not better ones, Mark.

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2 weeks ago

Say it here, for starters. Or at least try. An event like this calls for a very quick response. The full version can come later.

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2 weeks ago

I wish you’d write about this.

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2 weeks ago

Cousin Bobby, Something Wild and Philadelphia too.

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3 weeks ago
YouTube
Eric Andersen - Thirsty Boots (Live at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert, 1976) YouTube video by Boot Leg

Eric Anderson sings his "Thirsty Boots" at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert in 1976. As Eric says, this is "very heavy."

youtube.com/watch?v=YvQt...

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1 month ago

Boston After Dark, later The Boston Phoenix❤️. Boston had two separate papers but the office in the film looks more like BAD’s. By 1971 I’d managed to start selling record reviews there after a miserable two months at Harvard as Dr. J.D. Watson’s secretary. Yeah, him. And free local news worked.

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1 month ago

Turns out we didn’t.

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1 month ago

Well done. Grok just ID’d Marty Supreme as Bob Dylan.

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1 month ago

Please give us 10 days’ worth of news about the weather. We’ll like it. Promise.

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2 months ago

This worked for Barbie and The Fall Guy too.

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2 months ago

Will you believe them or your lying eyes?

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2 months ago

The National Society of Film Critics has an award for the best film awaiting U.S. distribution. If you’re in a film-related voting group, consider doing this. And congratulations to Lucrecia Martel, who just won it for her documentary “Nuestra Terra.” It will be called “Landmarks” here.

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2 months ago

You’re onto something.

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2 months ago

Yes, mayflies are very focused during their brief lives. Save it. This isn’t worth arguing about.

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2 months ago

Stay on these sites and you’ll have the attention span of a mayfly. Try to read, walk, visit. Do anything else.

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2 months ago

Bloody hell.

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2 months ago

Nobody is “approximately 78.” They must know who this is.

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2 months ago

He may not have had accurate information. That’s worse.

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3 months ago

Tom, if you still have my email can you write me? I’ve tried and failed to find yours. Old emails don’t last long any more.

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3 months ago

It costs nothing to be noticed by critics’ groups, newspapers, magazines, any other press outlets. A few of them picked up on The Shrouds and that’s good. Tough watch, given the material. But there’ll are things in there that I’ve haven’t seen from anyone else.

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3 months ago

Once sites like Criterion or IMDb identify them as 2024 films, awards groups tend to forget them. And neither lasted long in theaters, which is too bad. Both had U.S. 2025 commercial runs where I am.

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3 months ago

Two films I greatly admired, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Ron Howard’s Eden, have eligibility problems when it comes to 2025. Both opened commercially in the U.S. in 2025 but were screened elsewhere last year. As the awards game goes increasingly global, it’s too easy for this to happen.

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3 months ago

Congratulations, Emily! Wow!

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