Stanley Kauffmann: 50 years at The New Republic

The New Republic film critic Stanley Kauffmann has been a welcome, consistent presence at the magazine in the 20-odd years that I've been a reader -- one of the few steady presences, as pundits have come and gone. Somewhat unbelievably, I could make this claim even if I were a subscriber since the late 1950s. To celebrate Kauffmann's half-century at the magazine, TNR has posted a series of video clips in which he discusses film, and his own writing -- and the brief interregnum in which Pauline Kael filled his place -- with the senior editor Ruth Franklin. Here he explains why he never gets bored with his job.