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Michael Atkinson | |
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| Born | 1962 October 19 |
| Occupation | Film critic, novelist and teacher |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Subject | Film and culture |
| Notable works | Hemingway Deadlights Hemingway Cutthroat One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train Flickipedia |
Michael Atkinson (born 1962) is an American writer, poet and film critic. Hisdebut novel isHemingway Deadlights (St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books, 2009), and he has written widely on film and culture, inSight & Sound,The Village Voice,The Guardian,Film Comment,The Believer,In These Times,The Criterion Collection,Rolling Stone,The Progressive,Spin,Maxim,The Boston Phoenix,Details,Moving Image Source,IFC.com,TCM.com,Movieline,The Poetry Foundation,Chicago Reader,LA Weekly,The Stranger,The American Prospect,Baltimore City Paper,Modern Painters, and other publications.
His volumeExile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press) featured work byGuy Maddin,Stuart Klawans,Ed Park,Jonathan Rosenbaum,Joshua Clover,David Thompson,Howard Hampton, and others.
His debut book of poetry isOne Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works), and his poems have also appeared in a number of journals, includingThe Threepenny Review,Ontario Review,Chelsea,Michigan Quarterly Review,Prairie Schooner,Epoch,Crazyhorse,Seneca Review,New Letters,Cimarron Review, andThe Laurel Review, among others.
Since 1997, Atkinson has taught atLong Island University. Since 2017, he has served as editorial director of the online film school Smashcut.
He has been the recipient of aNew York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and was a featured writer inSeptember 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (ed.William Heyen, Etruscan Press, 2002),The Best American Movie Writing 2001 (John Landis &Jason Shinder, eds., Avalon/Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001),Celluloid Jukebox (Jonathan Romney &Adrian Wooton, eds.,British Film Institute, 1997), andThe Best American Poetry 1993 (eds.Louise Gluck &David Lehman, Collier/Macmillan, 1993).
Atkinson also co-authored and co-produced the pilotsBabylon Fields (2007), produced by20th Century Fox forNBC, and again in 2014 forCBS.
Atkinson participated in the2012Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows:Aguirre, The Wrath of God,L'Atalante,Blue Velvet,Céline and Julie Go Boating,Citizen Kane,Late Spring,A Man Escaped,Pierrot Le Fou,The Rules of the Game, andSherlock Jr..[1]
