Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson was raised on movies on New York's Upper West Side, where she embraced her father's fave war flicks and Westerns as well as the French New Wave. She ran the film society at Hamilton College before transferring to NYU Cinema Studies, and launched her film industry career in the publicity bullpen at United Artists, promoting “Rocky,” “Network,” “Bound for Glory,” “Carrie,” “Annie Hall,” “Manhattan” and more. She joined editor Richard Corliss at Film Comment before following her future husband, critic David Chute, to Los Angeles. She delivered the LA Weekly syndicated column Risky Business for seven years, supplied regular stories to The New York Times and The London Observer, and took staff jobs at Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety before taking her blog Thompson on Hollywood to IndieWire, where she has happily served as Editor at Large since 2016 and cohosts the weekly Screen Talk podcast. In 2014, Harper Collins published “The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars,” an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System.
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Director Greg Kwedar's prison drama boasts a stirring performance from Colman Domingo and a powerful ensemble of newcoming actors who were previously incarcerated at the upstate New York correctional facility.
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Kormákur's Iceland base and family ties are his strengths as he navigates a global film and television career.
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KVIFF marks the most prestigious European film festival between Cannes and Venice.
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The writer/director, as she explained at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, wears multiple hats in movies and television.
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The Oscar-winning director famously “retired” in 2013, but now he's wrapping the edit on a Cate Blanchett spy movie. At Karlovy Vary, he explained what made the difference.
And we dive into how the box office has improved remarkably, driven by "Inside Out 2."
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The international voters will now represent 20 percent of members.
And Celine Dion is behind a surprisingly tough portrait of an artist, as IndieWire discusses in the latest "Screen Talk" episode.
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In Jeff Nichols' motorcycle saga "The Bikeriders," Comer enters a man's world. She tells IndieWire how she did it.
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The success of Taylor Sheridan's "Yellowstone" multi-verse made the Paramount+ series possible.
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The sprawling Eastern European festival always lures film talent to its storied spa town.
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It's all about avoiding the "Band-Aid Monster," said LeFauve, who also tells IndieWire about the emotions (like Schadenfreude) and ideas (like Procrastination Land) left out of the Pixar sequel.
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