American author and film critic (born 1938)
Amy Taubin (;[ 1] born September 10, 1938) is an American author and film critic.[ 2] She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment .[ 3] 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 .[ 4] [ 5]
Taubin attended Sarah Lawrence College as an undergrad and received an MA from New York University . Taubin is also a filmmaker, curator , and educator.[ 4] She is one of the people visible in Michael Snow 's experimental film Wavelength .[ 6]
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 .[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
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."'[ 10]
Ghosts in the Machine , Village Voice, 1998.[ 11]
Douglas Gordon: through a looking glass , co-authored with Gagosian Gallery, Hal Hartle and Kay C. Pallister, Gagosian Gallery, 1999.[ 12]
Taxi Driver , BFI Publishing, 2nd ed., 2012.[ 13]
James Nares , co-authored with Glenn O'Brien and Ed Halter, Rizzoli International, 2014.[ 14]
The complete films of Agnès Varda , co-authored Michael Koresky, Ginette Vincendeau, So Mayer, et al., The Criterion Collection, 2020.[ 15] (The book is part of a 15-disc Blu-Ray collection.)"So there, Orwell": 1984: a video review , co-authored with John Howell, Louisiana World Exposition, 1984.[ 16]
Stands by his man: On Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand , Artform international, October 2003.[ 17]
Eastern exposure on recent Asian cinema , Artform international, November 2004.[ 18]
Common sense , Film comment, Vol. 52, no. 6, November/December 2016.[ 19]
^ "The Films of Jean-Luc Godard | "Amy Taubin Introduction" | Official Clip | Cohen Media Channel" . Cohen Media Group. June 25, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2025 .
^ "Amy Taubin" . Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2010 .
^ "Amy Taubin" . The Criterion Collection . Retrieved January 1, 2021 .
^ a b "Amy Taubin – SVA" . School of Visual Arts | SVA | New York City . Retrieved January 1, 2021 .
^ Taubin, Amy (March–April 2019). "A Pageant of Glimpses" . Film Comment . 55 (2): 64– 65. ISSN 0015-119X . JSTOR 26747356 .
^ Dixon, Wheeler W.; Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (2002). Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader . Psychology Press. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-415-27786-0 .
^ "Anthology Film Archives: About - Board of Trustees" . anthologyfilmarchives.org . Retrieved January 2, 2021 .
^ "Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award 2013" . www.svaphilosopher.com . Retrieved January 2, 2021 .
^ "Amy Taubin joins NYFF Selection Committee; March/April lineup announced for 50 Years of NYFF series" . Film at Lincoln Center . Retrieved January 2, 2021 .
^ Greenberger, Alex (November 18, 2020). "Warhol Foundation Writer Grants Go to Jessica Lynne, Amy Taubin, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, More" . ARTnews.com . Retrieved January 1, 2021 .
^ Taubin, Amy (1998). Ghosts in the Machine . New York: Village Voice. OCLC 1053922430 .
^ Taubin, Amy; Hartley, Hal; Pallister, Kay C; Gagosian Gallery (1999). Douglas Gordon: through a looking glass . New York: Gagosian Gallery. ISBN 978-1-880154-27-4 . OCLC 1020478677 .
^ Taubin, Amy (2012). Taxi driver . Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-84457-499-5 . OCLC 1066062671 .
^ Taubin, Amy; O'Brien, Glenn; Halter, Ed (2014). James Nares . New York: Rizzoli International. ISBN 978-0-8478-4257-5 . OCLC 880557667 .
^ Taubin, Amy; Koresky, Michael; Vincendeau, Ginette; Mayer, So; Hidalgo, Alexandra; Bengal, Rebecca (2020). The complete films of Agnès Varda . Criterion Collection. ISBN 978-1-68143-736-1 . OCLC 1192489160 .
^ Taubin, Amy; Howell, John (1984). 'So there, Orwell': 1984 : a video review . Louisiana: Louisiana World Exposition. OCLC 950226403 .
^ Taubin, Amy (2003). "Stands by his man on Peter Fonda's The hired man". Artforum International . OCLC 930354272 .
^ Taubin, Amy (2004). "Eastern exosure on recent Asian cinema". Artforum International . OCLC 930354485 .
^ Taubin, Amy (2016). "Common sense". Film Comment . 52 (6). ISSN 0015-119X . OCLC 974844265 .
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