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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Thompson on Hollywood
Oscar-contending family drama "Sentimental Value" is building strong film festival, Academy, and, so far, audience support in France and Norway.
Screen Talk
On this week's Screen Talk podcast, we also assess the state of the race for Netflix's awards slate.
Thompson on Hollywood
The stars tell IndieWire how they chose different routes to find their bonkers characters in Lynne Ramsay's tone poem about a wildly dysfunctional couple.
Screen Talk
The answer? Not much. We parse the latest development in the awards season on IndieWire's "Screen Talk" podcast.
Thompson on Hollywood
A first trip to Middleburg, Virginia, inspired nostalgia for small festivals past and suggestions for Sundance's future.
Thompson on Hollywood
His quiet role as Bruce Springsteen's manager in Scott Cooper's just-opened biopic could land the "Succession" Emmy winner a second Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Screen Talk
On this week's “Screen Talk” podcast, Anne Thompson talks to "Frankenstein" producer J. Miles Dale about the production challenges for the Oscar contender. Meanwhile, we also preview AFI Fest and look back at the Middleburg Film Festival.
Thompson on Hollywood
He plays a conspiracy activist and beekeeper who kidnaps a Big Pharma executive (Emma Stone), convinced she is about to destroy the earth. He tells IndieWire about a story that "exploded" even on the page.
Thompson on Hollywood
The German actress is an agent of chaos in Nia DaCosta's gorgeous '50s adaptation. She tells IndieWire how she made the most of a juicy, gender-swapped role.
Thompson on Hollywood
The filmmaker tells IndieWire that he really wanted Iran to submit his "It Was Just an Accident" for the Oscars. (France submitted it instead.) Or, better still, for the Academy to change the rules of international feature film eligibility so they don't favor democracies.
Thompson on Hollywood
The multi-hyphenate delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in Berlin prize-winner "Blue Moon" and also debuted at Telluride his documentary sales title "Highway 99: A Double Album," about Merle Haggard. He tells IndieWire how he keeps things moving.
Thompson on Hollywood
Actor-Turned-Director Harris Dickinson and His Breakout Star Frank Dillane on Their Stunner ‘Urchin’
Even though Dickinson will star as John Lennon in four Beatles films, he says he'll still be able to write and direct.
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