Article: LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)

FAIR CRITICISM

I appreciate your move toward a new editorial focus, but did you have to turn the magazine into Vanity Fair? When I read FILM COMMENT, I want to know what's going on in the world of film, specifically news that I can't get from Premiere, Entertainment Weekly, or Movieline. Yet, in your Opening Shots section, you give me two pages of catty "items" that I've already read in other magazines of a lesser quality than FILM COMMENT.

Also, I notice a strong tendency in many articles of the writer to make "witty" asides to the reader. In reading about Terence Davies' new film, I don't need to be told that the film features "(of all people) Dan ...

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