David Denby (born 1943) is an American journalist, best-known as film critic for The New Yorker magazine.
Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965 and a masters from its journalism school in 1966.
Denby began writing film criticism while a graduate student at Stanford University's Department of Communication. He began his professional life in the early 1970s as an adherent of the film critic Pauline Kael...
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David Denby (born 1943) is an American journalist, best-known as film critic for The New Yorker magazine.
Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965 and a masters from its journalism school in 1966.
Denby began writing film criticism while a graduate student at Stanford University's Department of Communication. He began his professional life in the early 1970s as an adherent of the film critic Pauline Kael—one of a group of film writers informally, and sometimes derisively, known as "the Paulettes." Denby wrote for The Atlantic and New York magazine before arriving at The New Yorker in the middle 1990s; at present, Denby splits his film duties with Anthony Lane, trading off week-by-week. The schedule allows both writers to explore a broad range of critical topics in the body of the magazine.
Denby's Great Books (1996) is a non-fiction account of the Western canon-oriented Core Curriculum at his alma mater, Columbia University. Denby reenrolled...
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