----------------------------Original message---------------------------- How funny--and depressing--that you should write about Kauffmann. Back in the late 1960s I thought about him what you write now, and almost 30 years later things have hardly changed! He is a fine critic, I think, but I don't read him these days. Why do you suppose we haven't produced a bevy of young, intelligent, articulate and readable critics. We *have* produced some young filmmakers.