{"id":1547175,"date":"2026-01-15T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1547175"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:44:34","slug":"a-new-robert-christgau-documentary-will-feature-randy-newman-thurston-moore-and-boots-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1547175","title":{"rendered":"A New Robert Christgau Documentary Will Feature Randy Newman, Thurston Moore, and Boots Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A New Robert Christgau Documentary Will Feature Randy Newman, Thurston Moore, and Boots Riley<\/h1>\n
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Premiering at SXSW, The Last Critic<\/em> is the first feature on the storied rock critic<\/div>\n
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A new documentary on Robert Christgau, The Last Critic<\/em>, will premiere at SXSW Film Festival this March. Randy Newman, Boots Riley, and Village Voice<\/em> writer-turned-novelist Colson Whitehead have signed up to tell the story of the self-appointed Dean of American Rock Critics. Naturally, having penned \u201cI Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick,\u201d Sonic Youth\u2019s Thurston Moore also chips in to help immortalize his onetime foe.<\/p>\n

Matty Wishnow directed the doc, which features music from Newman, Yo la Tengo, the Feelies, and Gina Birch. A murderer\u2019s row of critics also contributed, including Greil Marcus, Ann Powers, Rob Sheffield, Amanda Petrusich, and Kelefa Sanneh. A synopsis on the film\u2019s Instagram page notes that Christgau, whose work \u201chas inspired & infuriated readers for sixty years, is still at it in his eighties\u2014grading records, interrogating commas & listening to absolutely everything (except metal & prog).\u201d Its SXSW premiere will be in the Documentary Feature Competition.<\/p>\n

Revisit Pitchfork\u2019s interview with author Devon Powers about how Christgau and his Village Voice<\/em> colleague Richard Goldstein helped create rock journalism:<\/p>\n

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Source URL: http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/a-new-robert-christgau-documentary-will-feature-randy-newman-thurston-moore-and-boots-riley\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News A New Robert Christgau Documentary Will Feature Randy Newman, Thurston Moore, and Boots Riley Premiering at SXSW, The Last Critic is the first feature on the storied rock critic By Jazz Monroe January 15, 2026 Robert Christgau in The Last Critic (screenshot courtesy of the filmmakers) A new documentary on Robert Christgau, The Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1547175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}