Amy Taubin
Birthday: 1939-09-10
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Biography: Amy Taubin (born September 10, 1939) is an American film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment. She has also written regularly for 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Taubin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Velvet Underground
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Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle
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Cinéma Laika
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Galaxie
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Wavelength
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Screen Test: Amy Taubin
Andy Warhol Screen Test No. 335: Screen test of influential art critic Amy Taubin...
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Fragments of Paradise
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Tracing Amy: The Chasing Amy Doc
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Journeys from Berlin/1971
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia....
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image....
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth annive...
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Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
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Couch
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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