Amy Taubin
Amy Taubin (born September 10, 1938) is an American author and film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment. She has also written regularly for the SoHo Weekly News, The Village Voice, The Millennium Film Journal, and Artforum, and used to be curator of video and film at the non-profit experimental performance space The Kitchen.
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- 10 September 1938
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- New York University
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- Film critic
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• Name — Amy Taubin • Born — 10 September 1938 • Education — New York University • Occupation — Film critic
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Life and career
Taubin attended Sarah Lawrence College as an undergrad and received an MA from New York University. Taubin is also a filmmaker, curator, and educator. She is one of the people visible in Michael Snow's experimental film Wavelength. As an actress, she originated the role of Sandy in the original Broadway production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, opposite Zoe Caldwell, in 1968. Taubin has served on the board of trustees of the Anthology Film Archives; She was named as a Distinguished Art Historian-Teacher at the New York School of Visual Arts, Department of Humanities and Sciences; and has served on the selection committee for the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In 2020, Taubin was awarded a writer grant, in the short-form writing category, by the Warhol Foundation. In her statement on receiving the prize, she said she planned to use the funds to survey the "time machine of cinema available on our home screens."
Articles
Articles
• "So there, Orwell": 1984: a video review, co-authored with John Howell, Louisiana World Exposition, 1984. • Stands by his man: On Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand, Artform international, October 2003. • Eastern exposure on recent Asian cinema, Artform international, November 2004. • Common sense, Film comment, Vol. 52, no. 6, November/December 2016.
Books
• Ghosts in the Machine, Village Voice, 1998. • Douglas Gordon: through a looking glass, co-authored with Gagosian Gallery, Hal Hartle and Kay C. Pallister, Gagosian Gallery, 1999. • Taxi Driver, BFI Publishing, 2nd ed., 2012. • James Nares, co-authored with Glenn O'Brien and Ed Halter, Rizzoli International, 2014. • The complete films of Agnès Varda, co-authored Michael Koresky, Ginette Vincendeau, So Mayer, et al., The Criterion Collection, 2020. (The book is part of a 15-disc Blu-Ray collection.)
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- 1.Cohen Media Group. The Films of Jean-Luc Godard "Amy Taubin Introduction" Official Clip Cohen Media Channel. June 25, 2018.
- 2.Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Amy Taubin.
- 3.Amy Taubin. The Criterion Collection.
- 4.Amy Taubin – SVA. School of Visual Arts SVA New York City.
- 5.Taubin, Amy. A Pageant of Glimpses. Film Comment. 55. 2. 64–65. March–April 2019. 0015-119X.
- 6.Dixon, Wheeler W. Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. Psychology Press. 250. 2002. 978-0-415-27786-0.
- 7.Anthology Film Archives: About - Board of Trustees. anthologyfilmarchives.org.
- 8.Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award 2013. www.svaphilosopher.com.
- 9.Amy Taubin joins NYFF Selection Committee; March/April lineup announced for 50 Years of NYFF series. Film at Lincoln Center.
- 10.Greenberger, Alex. Warhol Foundation Writer Grants Go to Jessica Lynne, Amy Taubin, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, More. ARTnews.com. 2020-11-18.
- 11.Taubin, Amy. Ghosts in the Machine. Village Voice. 1998. 1053922430.
- 12.Taubin, Amy. Douglas Gordon: through a looking glass. Gagosian Gallery. 1999. 978-1-880154-27-4.
- 13.Taubin, Amy. Taxi driver. Bloomsbury Academic. 2012. 978-1-84457-499-5.
- 14.Taubin, Amy. James Nares. Rizzoli International. 2014. 978-0-8478-4257-5.
- 15.Taubin, Amy. The complete films of Agnès Varda. Criterion Collection. 2020. 978-1-68143-736-1.
- 16.Taubin, Amy. 'So there, Orwell': 1984 : a video review. Louisiana World Exposition. 1984. 950226403.
- 17.Taubin, Amy. Stands by his man on Peter Fonda's The hired man. Artforum International. 2003. 930354272.
- 18.Taubin, Amy. Eastern exosure on recent Asian cinema. Artforum International. 2004. 930354485.
- 19.Taubin, Amy. Common sense. Film Comment. 52. 6. 2016. 0015-119X.
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