A bit of a swan-song from Mick LaSalle, our guest speaker last Monday evening at our Autumn General Meeting. Personally, I thought Mick was just terrific and was a most fitting bookend to our 40th year.
By Mick LaSalle, Movie Critic Dec 14, 2024 - San Francisco Chronicle
Upon my retirement, I began reflecting on my time as a film critic for the Chronicle and decided to jot down the first 11 memories that came to mind. These are things that happened either in the course of doing my job or as a direct result of my being a Chronicle critic.
Sure, there are many more memories in addition to these collected over my nearly 40-year career, but these seemed either happy or important enough that I thought of them first.
Here they are, in the order in which I remembered them:
Mick LaSalle: 11 memorable moments as the Chronicle’s movie critic
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