Zoe Cooper
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berlin • nyc
berlin • nyc
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?
www.newyorker.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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
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May 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Reposted by Zoe Cooper
“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...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Mike Davis · Diary: California Burns
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“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...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
“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...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Mike Davis · Diary: California Burns
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“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...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...