@johnpowers

Critic at Large for FRESH AIR WITH TERRY GROSS

 Pasadena, California
Joined November 2012
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@DEADLINE30 Jan 2024
One of the nation’s top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times, taking his fluid prose and winning personality to The New Yorker deadline.com/2024/01/justin-…

Justin Chang, Leading Film Critic, Leaves Los Angeles Times For The New Yorker

One of the nation’s top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times and moving to The New Yorker.

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Rockets, Astros, Texans — Houston setting a single city choking record.
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I reviewed Ben Lerner's new novel, which arrives in the midst of a wave of new books reckoning with masculinity nytimes.com/2019/10/01/books…

Speech and Violence Collide in ‘The Topeka School’ (Published 2019)

Ben Lerner’s third novel draws on autobiographical details, like his previous two did, but offers a more conventional plot about a family in Kansas and the coarsening of political language.

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A jolt of pleasure out of the blue.
David Sikabwe from Going Spaceward@thustweetsdavid21 May 2019
Frank Sinatra called. He wanted a rap verse for "Fly Me to the Moon". Happy to oblige. (My broken glasses are totally an aesthetic choice.)
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Enviably nifty work!
Glenn Kenny@Glenn__Kenny20 Nov 2018
My Twitter and Letterboxd followers might have seen an uptick in Ingmar Bergman related activity last week; here, then, is the fruit of my labor: nytimes.com/2018/11/20/movie…

Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly (Published 2018)

On the 100th anniversary of the Swedish filmmaker’s birth, an impressive Blu-ray set from Criterion makes a fresh case for his importance — and his entertainment value.

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Adored SHIRKERS, @sanditan ‘s reclamation of the Singapore feature footage she was in 20 years ago and the strange man who’d hoarded it for all that time. It’s poignant and weird and funny and beautiful.
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It's official, movie lovers! deadline.com/2018/02/netflix… #shirkersfilm @shirkersfilm

Netflix Acquires Sandi Tan’s Sundance Award Winner ‘Shirkers’

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Shirkers, Sandi Tan’s film that won the Directing Award in World Cinema Documentary after its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Netflix...

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John Powers retweeted
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@magi_jay26 Nov 2017
1/ The NYTimes is densely defending their article by claiming it was intended to shed light on the normalcy of racism in American society. I agree this is a worthy topic of discussion. So, let’s talk about all the things the Times could have *actually* achieved this. . . .
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I don’t tweet often but when Dave Kehr has a new book out, that’s a special occasion How Movies Work nyti.ms/2hpLepf

How Movies Work (Published 2017)

Three new books by prominent cinephiles: Dave Kehr, Jim Shepard and Eric Lax.

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Dave Kehr@dave_kehr29 Aug 2017
first review of my new book -- not so bad! publishersweekly.com/978-0-2… via @publisherswkly

Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr

Kehr, a curator for the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department, follows his first collection of reviews, When Movies Mattered, w...

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This says it! Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 nyti.ms/2vPVN9g

Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91 (Published 2017)

Mr. Lewis rose to fame as Dean Martin’s comedy partner but went on to a major solo career with films like “The Bellboy” and “The Nutty Professor.”

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If you're in New York, go -- both Herrera and the movie are great. filmlinc.org/events/print-sc…

Print Screen: Yuri Herrera and 'The Long Goodbye'

For this screening, prize-winning author Yuri Herrera selects Robert Altman’s equally surreal Raymond Chandler adaptation 'The Long Goodbye.'

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Nifty look at a marvelous writer. Yuri Herrera Rejects the Clichés of the Drug War newrepublic.com/article/1435…

Yuri Herrera Rejects the Clichés of the Drug War

American audiences have come to expect "narcolit" from Mexican authors.

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Delicious dinner at Husk in Nashville. Thanks for the tip @thejgold!
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Of course he cheated by actually learning French. Dave Kehr Awarded I Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters bit.ly/2rjgBFv
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Hurrah, a new piece by the great Nathan Heller! The Gig Is Up nyer.cm/RXXtOki via @newyorker
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Pleasures guilty and otherwise: The Handmaiden Is the Year’s Most Erotic Movie vogue.com/13494948/the-handm…
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The great, life-affirming Sonia Braga vogue.com/13491831/sonia-bra…
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Has there been a more persistently snotty, cynical, short-sighted, and uninformative pundit over the last 16 years than MaureenDowd?
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