Top Ten 2012 - Joanna Langfield
Zero Dark 30
Lincoln
Django Unchained
Argo
Silver Linings Playbook
Skyfall
Life of Pi
The Master
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Gatekeepers
Joanna Langfield
Her voice is heard throughout the 50 states and around the world by more than one million listeners on her syndicated radio programs: Joanna Langfield’s People Report and Video and Movie Minute. She’s also seen and heard as a regular contributing commentator on CNN International, CNN, Fox News and CNBC. In print, her articles have been published in such high profile magazines as Video Review and McCall’s. Joanna Langfield is known for taking interviews to another level with probing looks at celebrities’ insights rather than just their latest projects. As a result, she’s secured a niche among the nation’s premier interviewers and movie critics. Joanna began her career on the production staff of a local Boston television station. She then focused her energies towards radio and produced talk shows at WMEX-AM in Boston. After moving to New York, she became executive producer at WMCA-AM for talk show personalities Barry Gray and Sally Jessy Raphael. She began hosting a one-minute movie review spot which, in turn, led to her top-rated weekend call in-show, The Joanna Langfield Show (1980-83). Joanna moved to WABC-AM to host The Joanna Langfield Show on Saturday nights from 9:00pm to midnight. It was the highest rated show in its time slot. From 1987-1989, Joanna hosted Today’s People on the ABC Radio network, which was fed daily to over 300 stations around the country. She also appeared on WABC-TV as a regular on-air contributor. In 1989, Joanna formed her radio production company, Joanna Langfield Entertainment Reports, to syndicate her radio reports. She is considered to be one of the top authoritative commentators on the entertainment industry. Read Lagfield's recent articles below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Joanna Langfield" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).
Articles by Joanna Langfield
AWFJ Women On Film - Marlo Thomas on “Growing Up Laughing - Joanna Langfield interviews
Award winning actress, best selling author and social activist, Marlo Thomas is a very busy woman. She’s recently filmed a new movie with Demi Moore and Miley Cyrus and plans to star in a Broadway play next season. Her web site, MarloThomas.com, launches on AOL just as her latest book “Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny” is being published. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - “City Island” - Joanna Langfield reviews
There are many reasons why this sweetheart of a movie is so disarming, but one of it‘s most outstanding attributes is that it absolutely loves women. And there are superb performances by three terrific actresses. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - Joanna Langfield’s Top Ten of 2009
Up in the Air
Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
Avatar
Up
District 9
Crazy Heart
An Education
Five Hundred Days of Summer
Adventureland
AWFJ Women On Film - Carole Zabar’s Film Activism - Joanna Langfield interviews
Mention “Zabar’s” to any New Yorker and mouthwatering dreams of the legendary gourmet emporium immediately pop into mind. But not all members of the Zabar family are to be found behind the deli counter, slicing Nova Scotia salmon. For the past several years, Carole Zabar has been cooking up a remarkable professional legacy of her own — and it’s all spreading a message of peace and love through film. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - Charlyne Yi On “Paper Heart” - Joanna Langfield
Charlyne Yi’s hybrid documentary, Paper Heart, has turned the young comic into an award winning filmmaker. Now she wants to come clean. After all, it’s one thing to stretch a few truths in her movie about looking for love. It’s another when it’s her actual life. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - Jeff Daniels On His Professional Renaissance - Joanna Langfield
For an actor who describes himself as “under the A list,” Jeff Daniels has been this summer’s hot ticket actor. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - A Tribute To Farrah Fawcett - Joanna Langfield
When Farrah Fawcett-Majors blossomed into “Farrah”, the timing was nothing if not ironic. The feminist movement had evolved from burning bras to searing publicly staged intellectual debate; women were donning suits and taking to the workplace en masse, thanks, in part, to the equal opportunity push supporting them. Some of us even stopped setting our hair and let our frizz flags fly. And then there was Charlie’s Angels. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - “Star Trek” - Joanna Langfield reviews
JJ Abrams, who hooked me on his addictive “Lost,” clearly knows how to meld otherworldly mysteries with wonderfully developed characters. Could he do the same for the imploding “Star Trek” franchise? Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - Susan Morgan Cooper on “An Unlikely Weapon” - Joanna Langfield interviews
It takes a lot of guts to be a wartime photographer. It takes almost as much guts to be an independent documentary filmmaker. So maybe it’s no accident that the great Eddie Adams and Susan Morgan Cooper found one another. Read the rest of this entry »