Stephanie Zacharek | |
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 Zacharek in 2018 | |
| Education | Syracuse University (BS) |
| Occupation(s) | Film critic, journalist |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse | Charles Taylor |
Stephanie Zacharek is an American film critic at Time , based in New York City. From 2013 to 2015, she was the principal film critic for The Village Voice . She was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism. [1] In February 2018, invited to serve as a judge for the main competition unit of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
Stephanie Zacharek received a Bachelor of Science degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, in New York. [2]
In the 1990s, Zacharek worked for The Boston Phoenix and Inc. [ citation needed ] From 1999 to 2010, she was a film critic and senior writer at Salon.com, where her husband, Charles Taylor, was also a film critic until 2005. [3] She became chief film critic of Movieline in 2010, [4] and left in mid-2012. In April 2013, the Voice Media Group hired her as chief film critic of The Village Voice . [5] In 2015 she left the Village Voice and became the film critic for Time magazine. [6] In February 2018, she was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. [7]
Zacharek was married to film critic Charles Taylor, but they are now divorced. [3] [8] Zacharek tried to have children when she was younger, but never got pregnant. However, today she has "zero regrets" about not having children. [8] As of 1999, she lives in New York. [9]
When she participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, Zacharek listed her ten favorite films as follows: Breathless , Carlito's Way , The Godfather , The Godfather: Part II , The Lady Eve , Once Upon a Time in the West , The Rules of the Game , Sunrise , Touch of Evil , and The World of Apu . [10] She has also cited Holiday as a personal favorite. [11]
