hearthesilence wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:45 pmI haven't subscribed to his Substack yet (though I'm kind of abandoning Substack altogether given their ongoing controversy with - *sigh* - Nazis and white supremacists) but I have a vague recollection that when he first launched it, he published a scathing editorial directed at Film Comment for ceasing its print publication, one that brought up a host of other grievances as well. He has written printed material for smaller publishers like Metrograph's publication arm, but I kind of wondered if he had taken himself out of mainstream publications altogether?furbicide wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:50 pmI would love that too, but I suspect he'd probably be seen as too iconoclastic for a publication as relatively strait-laced as The New Yorker to consider (and they already cop enough flak over Brody as it is, though I've never quite understood the animosity). Still, it's a sad reflection on the current state of things that someone as consistently interesting as Pinkerton doesn't seem to be able to get a regular gig anywhere much nowadays.
PInkerton has flashes of brilliance, but he's his own worst enemy. As for mainstream publications, I can't imagine any editor that's paid a living wage could tolerate him, let alone the readership of anyplace outside of whatever's left of the VICE empire.
And while I've enjoyed some of his commentaries for Kino Lorber et al, his online persona is hard to stomach, but at least you get what you paid for.