The Cleveland Plain Dealer, AI Panic, and Missing the Point
The backlash to the Plain Dealer's AI rewrite desk reveals an industry that's lost track of its own history — and lost the plot on its future.
Dante A. Ciampaglia
From the Archives: "The Secret Agent" Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho on Cinema and Memory
"Two historic cinemas in downtown Recife are very successful as places of congregation. Otherwise people go to the shopping malls, which is a completely artificial environment designed to make you spend money. And I'm not into practicing my citizenship as a person in a shopping mall."
Netflix is Becoming an Old Hollywood Studio — It Should Act Like One and Buy Some Theaters
Netflix can make vertical integration (and maybe movie theaters) great again!
An Undelivered Eulogy for My Father
Because of who he was in life, there was no ritual marking his death. This is my way of saying goodbye.
It's the Community, Stupid
It's time for the media to stop focusing on its national failures and start asking itself hard questions about how — and why — it abandoned local journalism.
Transcripts: Manfred Kirchheimer (in memoriam)
"To me the films are all current, and New York life in them is current. So, I'm sorry to disappoint you but I don't really see what others do."
"Bluey" Gives Us a Lesson on the Necessity of the Ending
I love a good kicker. As an editor and a writer, ending a story on the best possible note — high, low, a great quote, something pithy — is just as important as a pull-'em-in lede.
If we look around, though, it's clear we don't know