Shoot If You Must This Old Grey Head The complainer expects to be in agreement: he is certain that there is some chicanery afoot if his innate common sense clashes with some idea he encounters: ...
November 30, 2020
Duncan Shepherd was the Reader's sole movie critic for nearly 40 years. When he came to the Reader, Shepherd was a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Visual Arts department of UCSD, under critic and artist Manny Farber. Shepherd retired from the Reader in 2010.
Read about Shepherd on Wikipedia.
Some of Shepherd's notable work:
Thick Skin, Dec. 4, 1975 (Shepherd's view on pornography)
Naysaying, June 10, 1976 (response to Shepherd critics)
Gorin by Himself, Oct. 18, 1979 (collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, friend of Shepherd's)
Cease Fire, April 30, 1981 (another frontal stand against Shepherd's critics)
Upside, Downside, July 7, 1994 (the new phenomenon of films on video)
More Than Money, March 7, 1996 (review of Fargo)
One Cent's Worth, Sept. 27, 2001 (reflections on 9/11)
Bloop, Nov. 1, 2001 (review of The Man Who Wasn't There — first Coen Bros. film to disappoint him)
Articles by Duncan Shepherd
Movie critic Duncan Shepherd answers critics, Vincente Minnelli, Robert Rossellini visit UCSD
Movie stories by Duncan Shepherd from the 1970s
Shoot If You Must This Old Grey Head The complainer expects to be in agreement: he is certain that there is some chicanery afoot if his innate common sense clashes with some idea he encounters: ...
August 30, 2020
Duncan Shepherd and the Reader
Duncan Shepherd was the Reader's sole movie critic for nearly 40 years. When he came to the Reader, Shepherd was a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Visual Arts department of UCSD, under critic ...
March 2, 2019
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