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Duncan Shepherd
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
Duncan Shepherd and the Reader
Came from UCSD, stayed almost 40 years
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