Film Programming: A New Wilderness for Former Film Critics.
Only two days removed from the announcement that Newsweek's David Ansen would be taking over as the artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, the L.A. Weekly's chief film critic Scott Foundas has taken the Associate Program Director gig at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, where he had previously served as part of the New York Film Festival's selection committee. Whether or not Foundas' position at the Weekly will actually be filled remains to be seen and all of this comes a week after Variety critic Robert Koehler completed his first turn as a programmer at Los Angeles' AFI Fest, which has been generally considered to be a success. (And whether this was on the mind of Foundas when he wrote a glowing cover story about Koehler's transition to programming the AFI Fest is equally questionable.) As Sarasota Film Festival director of programming Tom Hall aptly put it...
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