EDITOR’S LETTER
TODAY IS KIND OF A SUCKY DAY.” It is with those ignoble words that Peter Barbey reportedly informed his staff, one fine day this August, that was ceasing publication for good. Almost exactly one year earlier, the stopped publishing in print, switching to an ambitious, exclusively online edition and leaving behind its beloved red plastic vendor boxes on: a panel of some of its extant critics at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, including such formative giants as Amy Taubin, Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, and Jonas Mekas, with Mekas kicking things off by setting up a video camera on a pillow on his knees and reading aloud a litany of the repertory houses and other spaces available to a New York moviegoer back in the day. The audience, a straw poll revealed, was heavily populated by former contributors, including yours truly.
