Amy Taubin Explained

Amy Taubin
Birth Date:10 September 1938
Birth Place:United States
Alma Mater:New York University
Occupation:Film critic

Amy Taubin (born September 10, 1938) is an American author and film critic.[1] She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment.[2] 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.[3] [4]

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.[5]

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.[6] [7] [8]

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."'[9]

Selected works

Books

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amy Taubin. May 11, 2010. Alliance of Women Film Journalists. https://web.archive.org/web/20100527152231/http://awfj.org/author/taubin/. May 27, 2010. dead. mdy-all.
  2. Web site: Amy Taubin. 2021-01-01. The Criterion Collection. en.
  3. Web site: Amy Taubin - SVA. 2021-01-01. School of Visual Arts SVA New York City. en.
  4. Taubin . Amy . March-April 2019 . A Pageant of Glimpses . . 55 . 2 . 64–65 . 0015-119X . JSTOR.
  5. Book: Dixon. Wheeler W.. Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. Foster. Gwendolyn Audrey. 2002. Psychology Press. 978-0-415-27786-0. 250. en.
  6. Web site: Anthology Film Archives: About - Board of Trustees. 2021-01-02. anthologyfilmarchives.org.
  7. Web site: Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award 2013. 2021-01-02. www.svaphilosopher.com.
  8. Web site: Amy Taubin joins NYFF Selection Committee; March/April lineup announced for 50 Years of NYFF series. 2021-01-02. Film at Lincoln Center. en.
  9. Web site: Greenberger. Alex. 2020-11-18. Warhol Foundation Writer Grants Go to Jessica Lynne, Amy Taubin, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, More. 2021-01-01. ARTnews.com. en-US.
  10. Book: Taubin, Amy. Ghosts in the Machine. 1998. Village Voice. New York, NY.. en. 1053922430.
  11. Book: Taubin. Amy. Douglas Gordon: through a looking glass. Hartley. Hal. Pallister. Kay C. Gagosian Gallery. 1999. Gagosian Gallery. 978-1-880154-27-4. New York. en. 1020478677.
  12. Book: Taubin, Amy. Taxi driver. 2012. Bloomsbury Academic . 978-1-84457-499-5. en. 1066062671.
  13. Book: Taubin. Amy. James Nares.. O'Brien. Glenn. Halter. Ed. 2014. Rizzoli International. 978-0-8478-4257-5. New York. en. 880557667.
  14. Book: Taubin. Amy. The complete films of Agnès Varda. Koresky. Michael. Vincendeau. Ginette. Mayer. So. Hidalgo. Alexandra. Bengal. Rebecca. 2020. Criterion Collection . 978-1-68143-736-1. en. 1192489160.
  15. Book: Taubin. Amy. "So there, Orwell": 1984 : a video review. Howell. John. 1984. Louisiana World Exposition. Louisiana. en. 950226403.
  16. Taubin. Amy. 2003. Stands by his man on Peter Fonda's The hired man.. Artforum International. en. 930354272.
  17. Taubin. Amy. 2004. Eastern exosure on recent Asian cinema.. Artforum International. en. 930354485.
  18. Taubin. Amy. 2016. Common sense. Film Comment. en. 52. 6. 0015-119X. 974844265.