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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie has been the lead movie critic for the Atlanta Journal Constitution for 28 years.
An Atlanta native, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University.
She has been a regular contributor to CNN, MSNBC, Entertainment Weekly, The Oxford Americans annual Southern Movie Issue, Headline News and WXIA, the local NBC affiliate, and a columnist for TV Guide. She is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and her work has been included in their anthologies of film criticism, The X List, and The A List.
Shes served on panels or juries at the Dallas International Film Festival (jury chair) the Sarasota French Film Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Florida Film Festival, the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester New York and Robert Osbornes Classic Film Festival in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of Stargazing and is currently working on a book about business and the workplace on film.
A Pultizer Prize nominee, her reviews have won her awards from multiple organizations, including Sigma Delta Chi (the Green Eyeshade awards) and the Cox newspaper chain. She was honored by the YWCA of Greater Atlanta in their 1999 Salute to Women of Achievement and by the IMAGE Film & Video Center (same year as Michael Stipe!). She has been named Best Pop Culture Critic and Best Local Critic by Atlanta Magazine. Her face was on a MARTA city bus in Atlanta, just like Carrie in Sex and the City!
It’s been said that every generation gets the government it deserves. Maybe so.
Perhaps it’s equally true every generation gets the gangster movie it deserves. Read the rest of this entry »
So, what sort of women’s work made the grade at this year’s Oscar nominations? Read the rest of this entry »
Based on a best-selling book for “young adults,” “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is a deceptively simple picture with a punch-to-the-gut twist. Read the rest of this entry »
With its honeyed title and estro-prone cast, “The Secret Life of Bees” would seem to be just another bone tossed to the “older” female audience–older meaning over 30 to the tanned boys of Tinseltown… Fortunately, it isn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
A wretched bit of Hollywood “satire,” Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened” is about as fraudulent and obnoxious a movie as I’ve seen in some time. Read the rest of this entry »
The passing of Paul Newman, of lung cancer at age 83, is, in a way, the passing of a generation. The Stewarts and Astaires and Hepburns (Katharine) of Hollywood’s Golden Age are gone. So, too, are most of the Pecks and Hestons and Hepburns (Audrey) who followed. Read the rest of this entry »
Meanwile, back at the ranch (as the saying goes), “Appaloosa” is the best American movie
I’ve seen this year. Read the rest of this entry »
With “I Served the King of England,” Jiri Menzel (who won a best foreign language film Oscar in 1967 for the minor classic, “Closely Watched Trains”) delivers a movie that’s as richly realized as anything we’ve seen in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
The so-so comedy “Baby Mama” is essentially notable for being the 8th movie in less than a year in which pregnancy (or abortion) is central to the plot. Think “Juno,” “Knocked Up,” Waitress,” “Smart People,” “Then She Found Me,” “Bella,” etc. Read the rest of this entry »
The thriller part is idiotic, but the plot-line of professional women having, you know, needs, had me laughing out loud. I didn’t know whether to be offended or amused. Or both. Read the rest of this entry »