Stuart Klawans
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Stuart Klawans has been the film critic for The Nation
since 1988. He won the 2007 National Magazine Award
for Reviews and Criticism and he received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
to work on a critical study of Preston Sturges
. He lives in New York City.
Klawans appears in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
describing the importance and impact of two deceased film critics, Manny Farber
and Vincent Canby
.
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
since 1988. He won the 2007 National Magazine Award
National Magazine Award
The National Magazine Awards are a series of US awards that honor excellence in the magazine industry. They are administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City...
for Reviews and Criticism and he received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
to work on a critical study of Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois...
. He lives in New York City.
Klawans appears in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet...
describing the importance and impact of two deceased film critics, Manny Farber
Manny Farber
Emanuel "Manny" Farber was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic" , Farber developed a distinctive prose style and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics; Susan Sontag considered him to be "the...
and Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby was an American film critic who became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969 and reviewed more than 1000 films during his tenure there.-Life and career:...
.
Books by Stuart Klawans
- Film Follies: Cinema Out of Order
- Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001