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.
Latest by Anne Thompson
IndieWire Honors
Issa López, who will accept the Auteur Award at this month's IndieWire Honors, explains how she advanced Season 4 of the storied HBO franchise, let stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis fly, and added "corpsicle" to the show.
On the latest episode of "Screen Talk," we also bring Tribeca Festival director Cara Cusumano on the show to preview another festival hitting New York City this June.
Thompson on Hollywood
AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer appoints new Academy Museum President Amy Homma to replace departing Jacqueline Stewart.
Thompson on Hollywood
Genre fare could alienate Oscar voters amid many likely submissions for International Feature Film.
Cannes
Cannes: IndieWire's "Screen Talk" podcast went live at the festival.
Cannes
Cannes: The director spoke to IndieWire at Cannes about how he hopes his leftist Brazilian political documentary "Lula" will be "instructive for audiences in the U.S."
Thompson on Hollywood
Cannes: At a wide-ranging Kering Women in Motion conversation at Cannes, NBCUniversal Content Chief Donna Langley got real.
Interview
Another possibility: We've all seen a lot of Westerns.
Thompson on Hollywood
The filmmaker and star tells IndieWire he's spent $100 million of his own money (so far) to shoot two of his four stories of the Western frontier — to their conclusion, whenever that is, and however much it will cost.
Thompson on Hollywood
Cannes: Yorgos Lanthimos' three-parter is a strong Competition entry. Its stars unpack it for IndieWire.
"Screen Talk" co-hosts Ryan Lattanzio and Anne Thompson debate the merits and demerits of Coppola's Cannes competition premiere — and discuss "Back to Black," now in U.S. theaters.
Thompson on Hollywood
His Cannes press conference in 1979 is one of the most legendary in the festival's history. Today, he sat before the assembled journalists again.
