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I couldn't speak, which would have cleared things up, but he wearied of my taps, leaped from his chair, and whacked me with the Toronto program book, which that year had about 400 pages. The film for some reason doesn't have centered subtitles but parks them over to the side, and the giant was leaning in such a way that he almost completely blocked them. My theory was proven a few years ago at the Toronto Film Festival, where at the press premiere of ' Slumdog Millionaire,' I found myself behind a towering film critic.

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This is especially useful if the movie has subtitles and somebody's head might obscure them. I want the side of the aisle at a greater distance from the screen, so that I can look diagonally across the aisle, and not have to peer over a taller person in front of me.

Outboard? Imagine a theater with two side aisles. To that advice I made a refinement: I prefer an aisle seat on the outboard side of the aisle. 'Twice as far back as the screen is wide,' he ruled. After I got the Sun-Times job I idly asked my optometrist where one should sit. Where do I like to sit? Growing up, I always liked to sit somewhere in the middle. I was amused that David ran a photo on his blog showing Kristin in the front row at Bologna and, yep, right there in the same row was Jonathan. But up there in front you can unfailingly find Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Wilmington, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and Peter Sobszynsky. The Lake Street Screening Room, where Chicago critics see most of our movies, has only about 60 seats, and no seat is all that far back. I know other good critics I can always find in the front row. 'DB,' as he signs himself, doesn't go into deep theory, preferring to share memories of times he sat up front in Paris, the Virgin Islands, Bologna, the Sundance cinemas in Madison, the Cinematheque Francais, and no doubt Hong Kong, since he is the leading authority on HK films. They feel weak when they fall for one.ĭavid and Kristin sit up front because they like to. Some critics write like they're chewing on anchovies.

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That reveals a love of movies that is essential for any professional critic. She is one of the most respected of all film scholars, she's been doing this for years, and she's still such a fan she collects autographs. She does this even more carefully when it's a Q&A with a film director, because, she writes, 'you get a good chance at an autograph.' This is in keeping with their preference for the front, and Kristin's policy at a lecture to sit as close to the speaker as possible. Where do they sit? At Ebertfest every year, I walk on stage and look straight down before me, and there they can be found, usually in the second row, more toward the side of the stage the podium is on. If you took any kind of film class in college, the odds are excellent that they wrote the textbook.īut I stray. They are revered academics at the University of Wisconsin, even though they write in English and can be read by any intelligent person.

Kristin and Bordwell are the authors, together and separately, of countless wonderful books.

If you know a better blog, please tell me. Why do I go out on a limb and name the world's best film blog, when I would never name the world's best film? It's because there's no competition.

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