Panel 8: Roundtable on “Better Living Through Criticism”
3:45-5:15PM | Saturday, April 15
Moderator: Monica Castillo
Johannes von Moltke
Stefan Grissemann
Cristina Nord

Panel 7: Roundtable on Feminist Film Criticism for the Masses
2:00-3:30PM | Saturday, April 15
Moderator: Mary Desjardins
Molly Haskell
Stephanie Zacharek
Carrie Rickey
Claudia Lenssen

Panel 6: Film Advocacy: Museums, Archives, Collections
11:15AM-12:45PM | Saturday, April 15
Moderator: Mark Williams

Panel 5: Re-Visiting Weimar Film Criticism
9:30-11:00AM | Saturday, April 15
Moderator: Joanna Rapf
Johannes von Moltke on Early Kracauer
Erica Carter on Béla Balázs
Nicholas Baer on ‘Aesthetic Perfection’ in Early Film Criticism

Panel 4: Film Criticism of the 1990s
3:45-5:15PM | Friday, April 14
Moderator: Petra McGillen
Eric Rentschler on German Film Criticism of the 1990s
Cristina Nord on Changes in the Profession and the Medium
Dana Stevens on the Rise of Online Film Criticism and its Current State
Fatima Naqvi on “Filmwissenschaft” vs. “Filmkritik”

Panel 3: Festival Culture as Film Criticism
2:00-3:30 PM | Friday, April 14
Moderator: Gerd Gemünden
Dennis Lim on “Curation, Criticism, and Cinephilia”
B. Ruby Rich on “Taste, Ideology, Status & The Thrill of Getting There First”
J. Hoberman on “Fassbinder’s American Friends”
Jeffrey Ruoff on criticism at Les États Généraux du documentaire

Panel 2: The Paratexts of Film Criticism
11:15AM-12:45PM | Friday, April 14
Moderator: Julio Ariza
Liz Helfgott on Liner Notes as Film Criticism
Genevieve Yue on Moving Image Criticism
Jennifer Fay on “Authorship Criticism after Auteurism”
Farran Smith Nehme on her blog “The Self-Styled Siren”

Panel 1: The (Permanent) Crisis of Film Criticism
9:30-11:00AM | Friday, April 14
Moderator: Yulia Komska
Mattias Frey on the Eternal Return of the Crisis
Claudia Lenssen on the Journal Filmkritik
Stefan Grissemann on Changes in Print Journalism