1. Where’s your byline?
Kansas City Star
2. Education:
BA
3. Film education:
Every course I could take and nonstop moviegoing.
4. Indispensable film books:
Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever
5. Favorite film magazines and/or websites: --
6. Describe a typical work week:
2 columns, at least 3 reviews, one or two feature stories.
7. How many movies did you review in 2006?
200
8. What do you take with you to a screening?
Pen, legal pad and, if the movies get any longer, a catheter.
9. Movie you lambasted that then got you lambasted, & have you since backpedaled?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
10. To what extent do you believe home theatres will make movie theatres obsolete?
As long as there are teens trying to get away from Mom and Dad, we'll have theaters. Maybe not as many of them.
11. Advice for hitting a film fest; What are your objectives?
See the good ones, get interviews with people who matter.
12. Most over/under-rated film fest and why: --
13. What fests did you attend in 2006, and which would you like to attend in 2007? --
14. How do you fuel yourself during a hectic fest schedule? --
15. Your ideal film fest theme: --
16. What do you consider the most prestigious non-Oscar film award?
NY Film Critics
17. Movies/genres you can discuss better than anyone else: --
18. If you were locked in a theatre with the work of three directors...
Truffaut, Preston Sturges, Hitchcock
19. How often do you watch movies that you aren’t critiquing?
Almost daily.
20. Three favorite sick-in-bed/easy-on-the-head movies:
Aliens
21. Surprising turn from one of your least favorite actors/directors:
Bob Clark A Christmas Story
22. Three essential movies for a proper film-snob library:
Kane
23. How did you become a film critic?
Unfit for other work.
24. Career moment you’re most proud of:
Interviewing Paul Newman in his underwear. (I wasn't wearing his underwear...he was.)