Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson was raised on movies on New York's Upper West Side, where she embraced her father's fave war flicks and Westerns as well as the French New Wave. She ran the film society at Hamilton College before transferring to NYU Cinema Studies, and launched her film industry career in the publicity bullpen at United Artists, promoting “Rocky,” “Network,” “Bound for Glory,” “Carrie,” “Annie Hall,” “Manhattan” and more. She joined editor Richard Corliss at Film Comment before following her future husband, critic David Chute, to Los Angeles. She delivered the LA Weekly syndicated column Risky Business for seven years, supplied regular stories to The New York Times and The London Observer, and took staff jobs at Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety before taking her blog Thompson on Hollywood to IndieWire, where she has happily served as Editor at Large since 2016 and cohosts the weekly Screen Talk podcast. In 2014, Harper Collins published “The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars,” an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System.
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Screen Talk
And why "The Last of Us" broke our hearts.
Screen Talk
The Killer Films producer joined IndieWire's "Screen Talk" podcast live in New York to talk Celine Song's "Materialists," the state of moviegoing, and more.
Screen Talk
On this week's episode of IndieWire's "Screen Talk" podcast, we discuss the new Tarantino-Fincher joint and look at what might pop at Cannes.
Screen Talk
As Emmy season approaches, "Screen Talk" dives into the likely contenders. The hosts also discuss the alarming arrest of one of the "No Other Land" directors, and parse the box office results for "Snow White."
Thompson on Hollywood
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's hilarious 10-episode AppleTV+ series is heightened, but it's very much based on Hollywood reality.
Sonoma International Film Festival
The Macedonian film also won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. Julie Delpy's "Meet The Barbarians" took the Audience Award for Best Feature.
Screen Talk
On this week's "Screen Talk," we also parse British limited series "Adolescence" and this week's shocking "White Lotus" episode, which brings in guest star Sam Rockwell.
Sundance 2027
IndieWire lets film commissioners from each city lay out the pros and cons before a decision is made later this spring.
Thompson on Hollywood
SXSW: The Artists Equity hot sales title won a special documentary Jury Prize.
Screen Talk
Elsewhere on this week's "Screen Talk," we wrap up SXSW and discuss new TV like Netflix's "Adolescence" and the Hollywood-centric "The Studio."
Thompson on Hollywood
The actor tells IndieWire about taking time off, and why spy roles in "Black Bag" and "The Agency" scratch the itch of "the only thing" he can do.
Screen Talk
Plus: We preview SXSW, Seth Rogen's "The Studio," and Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17."
