Film Comment's annotated blog roll (compiled by Paul Brunick)

IT’S ALIVE!: The Top Film Criticism Sites: An Annotated Blog Roll
Compiled by Paul Brunick, July/August 2010

Paul Brunick has edited a witty blog survey with capsule reviews of each blog listed. I'm happy to disagree with him on the fall of film criticism in the print media. Unlike him I bemoan it as a terrible blow in the history of professional film criticism which cannot be compensated by any amount of unpaid freelanced blogging.

"The blog roll has become the defining trope of critical exchange in the early Internet era: its network of laterally enmeshed connections quite literally defines “the Web.”" - "For every URL included, one of our crack contributors has come up with an elegantly pithy synopsis of the critical style and obsessively revisited subjects that define the spirit of the site."

The Self-Styled Siren
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com

Strictly Film School
http://filmref.com

Diagonal Thoughts
www.diagonalthoughts.com

Not Coming to a Theater Near You
http://notcoming.com

Acidemic
http://acidemic.blogspot.com

The Academic Hack
http://academichack.net

Undercurrent
http://fipresci.org/undercurrent

DVD Beaver
www.dvdbeaver.com

Kino Slang
http://kinoslang.blogspot.com

Ludic Despair
http://ludicdespair.blogspot.com

Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com

Some Came Running
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com

Wright On Film
www.wrightonfilm.com

Moving Image Source
www.movingimagesource.us

Artforum.com
http://artforum.com/new.php?pn=film

Film-Philosophy
www.film-philosophy.com

Film Journey
http://filmjourney.org

The Front Row
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies

indieWIRE
www.indiewire.com

Video Watchblog
http://videowatchdog.blogspot.com

Girish Shambu
http://girishshambu.blogspot.com

CineMetrics
http://cinemetrics.lv

Paul Schrader
http://paulschrader.org

Observations on Film Art
www.davidbordwell.net/blog

Unexplained Cinema
http://unexplainedcinema.blogspot.com

Masters of Cinema
http://mastersofcinema.org

Dave Kehr
http://davekehr.com

Thanks for the Use of the Hall
http://sallitt-archive.blogspot.com

Jonathan Rosenbaum
http://jonathanrosenbaum.com

Rouge
http://rouge.com.au

Supposed Aura
http://supposedaura.blogspot.com

World Picture
http://english.okstate.edu/worldpicture

Ain’t It Cool News
www.aintitcool.com

The Man Who Viewed Too Much
www.panix.com/~dangelo

MUBI (the website formerly known as The Auteurs)
www.theauteurs.com

Order of the Exile
http://jacques-rivette.com

Cinebeats
http://cinebeats.blogsome.com

The Seventh Art
http://theseventhart.info

The House Next Door
www.slantmagazine.com/house

Reverse Shot
www.reverseshot.com

Senses of Cinema
www.sensesofcinema.com

Scanners
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners

Landscape Suicide
http://landscapesuicide.blogspot.com

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