The well-respected film reviewer also contributed to Screen International, the Evening Standard, and HuffPost.
Former film critic, author, broadcaster and London Film Festival director Derek Malcolm died aged 91 on Saturday (July 15).
He was the film reviewer at national newspaper The Guardian from 1971 to 1997 and briefly contributed to Screen International. He later became critic at the Evening Standard and, toward the end of his career, wrote for HuffPost.
Malcolm estimated he watched an average of 500 films a year during his time at The Guardian.
The gregarious, much-travelled Malcolm had a huge range of friends and acquaintances. He knew well many of...
Former film critic, author, broadcaster and London Film Festival director Derek Malcolm died aged 91 on Saturday (July 15).
He was the film reviewer at national newspaper The Guardian from 1971 to 1997 and briefly contributed to Screen International. He later became critic at the Evening Standard and, toward the end of his career, wrote for HuffPost.
Malcolm estimated he watched an average of 500 films a year during his time at The Guardian.
The gregarious, much-travelled Malcolm had a huge range of friends and acquaintances. He knew well many of...
- 7/17/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Above: Poster by Frank Stella for the 9th New York Film Festival.Compared to the 32 films in the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival, not to mention the seemingly hundreds of others playing in sidebars, the 1971 edition of the NYFF, half a century ago, was a lean affair. With only 18 films, down from 78 just four years earlier, the ninth edition of the NYFF was, according to its director Richard Roud, a “belt-tightening festival, a year of consolidation.” In fact, the financially strapped festival almost didn’t take place that year. A New York Times article published midway through the event mentions that “outside the 984-seat Vivian Beaumont Theater, there is only one poster announcing the festival [one assumes it was the beautiful Frank Stella poster above] that is quietly and modestly taking place inside.” A far cry from the glorious phalanx of digital billboards currently beaming outside Alice Tully Hall and the Elinor Bunin Center.The...
- 10/6/2021
- MUBI
Let’s face it: The New York Film Festival has always been run by older white men, from its founder, the late great Richard Roud, through departing director Kent Jones, who now turns his focus to full-time filmmaking. New Nyff director Eugene Hernandez brings an exciting and welcome perspective to the 57-year-old festival, which is just five years older than he is. He’s an erudite cinema connoisseur, having scarfed up movies for decades at the major film festivals and beyond as a journalist (mostly at IndieWire) and, for the last decade, rising in the ranks at Film at Lincoln Center.
But he’s more than a passionate film lover. Hernandez will bring a change in focus to the Nyff in terms of long-term strategy, ongoing opportunism, and industry and filmmaker outreach. Dennis Lim will enlarge his role, as both programming director for the October festival, which is the focal...
But he’s more than a passionate film lover. Hernandez will bring a change in focus to the Nyff in terms of long-term strategy, ongoing opportunism, and industry and filmmaker outreach. Dennis Lim will enlarge his role, as both programming director for the October festival, which is the focal...
- 2/19/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Kent Jones: "Throughout its history, it has been a true home for the art of cinema - that was how it began with Richard Roud and Amos Vogel, that was how it remained with my predecessor Richard Peña, and that was how I’ve done my best to maintain it." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced this afternoon that Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival will "step down" following this year's program. Kent in his seven year tenure initiated the Spotlight on Documentary and Convergence sections and will stay on in an advisory role.
Kent Jones: "I thank my colleagues, I thank the board for sticking to the original mission, I thank our audiences, I thank our colleagues in the industry" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The 57th New York Film Festival Opening Night selection is the world première of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman with Robert De Niro,...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced this afternoon that Kent Jones, director of the New York Film Festival will "step down" following this year's program. Kent in his seven year tenure initiated the Spotlight on Documentary and Convergence sections and will stay on in an advisory role.
Kent Jones: "I thank my colleagues, I thank the board for sticking to the original mission, I thank our audiences, I thank our colleagues in the industry" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The 57th New York Film Festival Opening Night selection is the world première of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman with Robert De Niro,...
- 9/19/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kent Jones, the director and selection committee chair of the New York Film Festival, will step down from his position following the upcoming 57th edition of the festival, Film at Lincoln Center announced Thursday.
Jones has been the director of the festival for seven years, and he’ll depart after the festival concludes, which takes place between Sept. 27 and Oct. 13. Film at Lincoln Center’s executive director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership, but no replacement has yet been announced. Jones will also continue to work with the team in an advisory role.
“At some point when I was pretty young and already deep into movies, the New York Film Festival became a beacon for me,” Jones said in a statement. “Throughout its history, it has been a true home for the art of cinema–that was how it began with Richard Roud and Amos Vogel, that was...
Jones has been the director of the festival for seven years, and he’ll depart after the festival concludes, which takes place between Sept. 27 and Oct. 13. Film at Lincoln Center’s executive director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership, but no replacement has yet been announced. Jones will also continue to work with the team in an advisory role.
“At some point when I was pretty young and already deep into movies, the New York Film Festival became a beacon for me,” Jones said in a statement. “Throughout its history, it has been a true home for the art of cinema–that was how it began with Richard Roud and Amos Vogel, that was...
- 9/19/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Kent Jones, now in his seventh year as director of the New York Film Festival, will step down from that position following this year’s 57th edition, the Film at Lincoln Center organization announced today.
Jones, whose career as a film director surged last year with the release of his first narrative feature Diane starring Mary Kay Place (Rotten Tomato score: 93), will continue to work with Flc in an advisory role. Film at Lincoln Center’s Executive Director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership for Nyff.
Jones has been associated with Film at Lincoln Center for more than two decades, including as a year-round programmer, a member of the festival’s selection committee, and contributor to Film Comment.
As director, Jones was credited with expanding the festival with sidebars and new sections including the Spotlight on Documentary and Convergence sections. His tenure saw the first selection of a...
Jones, whose career as a film director surged last year with the release of his first narrative feature Diane starring Mary Kay Place (Rotten Tomato score: 93), will continue to work with Flc in an advisory role. Film at Lincoln Center’s Executive Director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership for Nyff.
Jones has been associated with Film at Lincoln Center for more than two decades, including as a year-round programmer, a member of the festival’s selection committee, and contributor to Film Comment.
As director, Jones was credited with expanding the festival with sidebars and new sections including the Spotlight on Documentary and Convergence sections. His tenure saw the first selection of a...
- 9/19/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Programmer and filmmaker directed Tribeca 2018 selection Diane.
Kent Jones, the director of New York Film Festival and chair of the festival’s selection committee, will step down to focus on his filmmaking career after the 57th edition, which kicks off with the world premiere of The Irishman later this month.
Jones has been associated with Film at Lincoln Center for more than two decades as a year-round programmer, Nyff selection committee member, and Film Comment contributor.
Film at Lincoln Center executive director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership at the festival. Jones will continue to work with Film...
Kent Jones, the director of New York Film Festival and chair of the festival’s selection committee, will step down to focus on his filmmaking career after the 57th edition, which kicks off with the world premiere of The Irishman later this month.
Jones has been associated with Film at Lincoln Center for more than two decades as a year-round programmer, Nyff selection committee member, and Film Comment contributor.
Film at Lincoln Center executive director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership at the festival. Jones will continue to work with Film...
- 9/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Agnes Varda is deservedly eulogized in newspapers and on social media all over America today, but critics, programmers and audiences in the U.S. took time in recognizing her accomplishments. It took several decades for her work gain appreciation in the U.S., and during that time, I witnessed Varda’s ability to continue evolving as an artist every step of the way.
While Varda’s debut feature, “La Pointe Courte” (1955) has yet to have a theatrical release in America, her early short, “L’Opera Mouffe” (1958), was distributed by Cinema 16, an important film club run by Amos and Marcia Vogel in the 50’s and early 60’s dedicated to the showing and release of experimental and avant-garde cinema. The film won some notoriety because of its casual nudity — then still rare on American screens — and it was booked in film societies around the country seeding the bed for later Varda appreciation.
While Varda’s debut feature, “La Pointe Courte” (1955) has yet to have a theatrical release in America, her early short, “L’Opera Mouffe” (1958), was distributed by Cinema 16, an important film club run by Amos and Marcia Vogel in the 50’s and early 60’s dedicated to the showing and release of experimental and avant-garde cinema. The film won some notoriety because of its casual nudity — then still rare on American screens — and it was booked in film societies around the country seeding the bed for later Varda appreciation.
- 3/31/2019
- by Laurence Kardish
- Indiewire
Above: French grande for Capricious Summer. Artist: F. Dervanore.As the 56th New York Film Festival winds down this weekend, I wanted to look back half a century to the 6th edition of the festival. Uppermost in everyone’s minds in September 1968 was Czechoslovakia, which, after a brief seven months of liberation known as the Prague Spring, had been invaded less than a month before the festival began, by Warsaw Pact tanks and troops intended to suppress reforms. Whether it had been planned before the Soviet invasion, the 6th New York Film Festival notably opened and closed with Czech films: Jiri Menzel’s Capricious Summer and Milos Forman’s The Firemen’s Ball. It also featured Jan Nemec’s previously banned 1966 film A Report on the Party and the Guests which had been released in ’68 under the reformist president Alexander Dubček and shown as a special event on Czech national...
- 10/13/2018
- MUBI
In an eclectic career spanning half a century, Wim Wenders continues to channel the zeitgeist: his romantic thriller “Submergence” recently opened in the U.S. and his documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” is set to premiere at Cannes.
Wenders helped define New German Cinema with his road-movie trilogy starting in 1974, “Alice in the Cities,” “Wrong Move” and “Kings of the Road”). Over the years, he has also brought to the big screen timely social commentary, a unique perspective on the American experience, and exuberant celebrations of music and dance in “Buena Vista Social Club,” “The Soul of a Man” and “Pina.” The filmmaker is also busy restoring past films, including 1987 classic “Wings of Desire.”
Variety first mentioned Wenders in an Aug. 26, 1970 report about financing for his upcoming project “The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick” (based on a novel and referred to as “Goal Keeper Frightened...
Wenders helped define New German Cinema with his road-movie trilogy starting in 1974, “Alice in the Cities,” “Wrong Move” and “Kings of the Road”). Over the years, he has also brought to the big screen timely social commentary, a unique perspective on the American experience, and exuberant celebrations of music and dance in “Buena Vista Social Club,” “The Soul of a Man” and “Pina.” The filmmaker is also busy restoring past films, including 1987 classic “Wings of Desire.”
Variety first mentioned Wenders in an Aug. 26, 1970 report about financing for his upcoming project “The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick” (based on a novel and referred to as “Goal Keeper Frightened...
- 5/4/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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