Harlan Jacobson is an American film critic

Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and...

, literary editor

Editing

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, radio host, film Lecturer and author

Author

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Education

Harlan Jacobson received a Bachelor's Degree in English from Haverford College

Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...

 in 1971.http://www.haverford.edu/publications/fall97/jacobson.html

Career

Harlan Jacobson is an established film critic who has interviewed numerous actors, musicians, directors, and producers over his 30 year career, some of which include Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

, Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....

, Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

, Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

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 http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/jf08/coppolauncut.htm, Robin Williams

Robin Williams

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 and Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow

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Jacobson's interview with Michael Moore

Michael Moore

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 ("Michael & Me") in the December 1989 edition of Film Comment Magazine

Film Comment

Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication. Film Comment features critical reviews and in-depth analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world...

 for the film Roger & Me

Roger & Me

Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by Michael Moore. Moore portrays the regional negative economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith's summary action of closing several auto plants in Flint, Michigan, costing 30,000 people their jobs at the time and economically...

 sparked an international debate over the methodology of Moore's misrepresentation of then General Motors

General Motors

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 CEO Roger Smith

Roger Smith

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 in the film.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/community/tags/reporter.aspx?id=238, NEWSDAY, The Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe as well as many other national news publications.

From 1982 to 1990 Harlan Jacobson was the Editor in Chief of Film Comment Magazine

Film Comment

Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication. Film Comment features critical reviews and in-depth analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world...

. He continues to contribute articles and is co-editor of Film Comment to this day.

Jacobson was a contributing author in Variety's

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

 History of Show Business (ABRAMS, 1993), Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise (Univ. Mississippi Press / 2001) as well as Steven Soderburgh's The King of Cannes: Truth or Consequences (Univ. Mississippi Press / 2002).

External links

• Haverford College Bio on Harlan Jacobson http://www.haverford.edu/publications/fall97/jacobson.html

• IMDB profile for Harlan Jacobson http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2553828/