Vishnevetsky actually seems like a pretty exciting pick. For those who don't know, Mubi.com (formerly known as The Auteurs) is a streaming site for foreign and arthouse film that features criticism, essays and a social networking component. If there are any gaps in your knowledge of Agnès Varda's filmography, check out Mubi, which seems to have almost all of her films available now.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky himself is a 24-year-old wonder kid of sorts. Besides contributing to Mubi, he contributes to the Chicago Reader (where he's proven pretty open-minded by giving props to both Faster and Carancho) and co-founded the indispensible resource for Chicago alternative film, Cine-File.info. Before getting into film he uh, worked as a translator for Russia's premier literary journal. Yeesh. So yes, as far as new blood in film criticism goes, he seems like a promising choice.
Ebert also revealed that the show will feature contributions from The Hitlist's Kim Morgan, The Popcorn Reel's Omar Moore, Mirrorfilm's Katrina Richardson, CBS news analyst Jeff Greenfield, Beliefnet's Nell Minow and Movie City News' David Poland. The show will also include a new segment about video-on-demand called "Hot N Now," which was naturally named after a burger joint in rural Indiana.
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