Phillip Lopate

NY Times

Phillip Lopate is a writer and film critic.  He has served twice on the New York Film Festival selection committee, and as a guest director of the Telluride Film Festival.  His film crirticism has appeared in the New York Times, Film Comment, Vogue, Cineaste and many other publications.  A collection of his film criticism entitled “Totally Tenderly Tragically” was published by Anchor Books, and he also edited “American Movie Critics,” an anthology for the Library of America.  His other books include fiction (The Rug Merchant, Two Marriages), personal essays (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body) and poetry (At the End of the Day).

Links: Phillip's Personal Website


Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

2) Moolaadé

3) Mulholland Dr.

4) The Taste of Others

5) Before Sunset

6) The Fog of War

7) Grizzly Man

8) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

9) Blissfully Yours

10) The Woman on the Beach

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) A Serious Man

2) The Hurt Locker

3) Police, Adjective

4) Antichrist

5) Night and Day

6) Of Time and the City

7) Summer Hours

8) The Sun

9) Bright Star

10) Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight

Best Lead Performance »

1) Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

2) Peter Sarsgaard, An Education

3) Issei Ogata, The Sun

4) Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

5) Jesse Eisenberg, Adventureland

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Fred Melamed, A Serious Man

2) Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies

3) Sari Lennick, A Serious Man

4) Ryan Reynolds, Adventureland

5) Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker

Best Director »

1) Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Documentary »

1) Of Time and the City

Best Screenplay »

1) Corneliu Porumboiu, Police, Adjective

Best First Feature »

1) Wendy Keys, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight

Best Undistributed Film »

1) Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl

2) Ghost Town

3) Min Ye

4) For the Love of Movies

5) The Last Happy Day

6) Le Rabbia di Pasolini

7) Invisible Frame
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