David Ansen
DAVID ANSEN is movie critic and senior editor for Newsweek, where he has been reviewing movies since 1977. He's written several documentaries for television, on Greta Garbo (for TNT), Groucho Marx (HBO), Elizabeth Taylor (PBS) and the Ace Award winning "All About Bette" (Bette Davis) for TNT. He served on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival from 1990 to 1998. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and is a three time winner of the Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild of New York. He has served on film festival juries at the Sundance Film Festival, in Hawaii, and in Istanbul. For many years he was a host of Bravo's International Film Festival on television and has appeared on Nightline, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, MacNeil-Lehrer, Access Hollywood, the BBC and MSNBC. He has also reviewed movies on radio for the Associated Press. Ansen graduated from Harvard College and is currently based in Los Angeles.
