A brand new documentary on Robert Christgau, The Final Critic, will premiere at SXSW Movie Competition this March. Randy Newman, Boots Riley, and Village Voice writer-turned-novelist Colson Whitehead have signed as much as inform the story of the self-appointed Dean of American Rock Critics. Naturally, having penned “I Killed Christgau With My Huge Fucking Dick,” Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore additionally chips in to assist immortalize his onetime foe.
Matty Wishnow directed the doc, which options music from Newman, Yo la Tengo, the Feelies, and Gina Birch. A assassin’s row of critics additionally contributed, together with Greil Marcus, Ann Powers, Rob Sheffield, Amanda Petrusich, and Kelefa Sanneh. A synopsis on the movie’s Instagram web page notes that Christgau, whose work “has impressed & infuriated readers for sixty years, continues to be at it in his eighties—grading information, interrogating commas & listening to utterly every thing (besides steel & prog).” Its SXSW premiere will likely be within the Documentary Characteristic Competitors.
Revisit Pitchfork’s interview with creator Devon Powers about how Christgau and his Village Voice colleague Richard Goldstein helped create rock journalism:
