Episode 38 – Glenn Kenny - a podcast by Phi Phenonenon

Ted is back this week to talk with Glenn Kenny, who’s been writing knowledgeable, incisive film criticism with verve, discursive sentences, attitude, and the pop culture acumen of a rock critic for decades. On this episode we discuss his new book Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas, his love of Martin Scorsese’s film and filmmaking, both from encyclopedic and a proximity standpoint, his New Jersey upbringing, the literary influence Nabokov had, and his time at Premiere magazine in the ’90s when it was in competition with Entertainment Weekly. Also: his love of the grand cross-pollinating pop-cultural narrative histories of Greil Marcus, his influence from Lester Bangs, why Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God is actually an amazing screwball comedy worth 12 viewings, his book on Robert DeNiro, and why that actor takes the roles he’s taken for the last few decades.

Glenn Kenny is a film critic whose work currently appears in the New York Times and RogerEbert.com. He has also written for The Current, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, Playboy, Film Comment, and was formerly an editor for Premiere magazine. He also publishes on his blog, Some Came Running.

Ted Haycraft is film critic for WFIE-14 and co-hosts Cinema Chat on its Midday show. He can also be found on Cinema Chat’s Facebook page.

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