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Lou Lumenick | |
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| Born | Louis J. Lumenick (1949-09-11)September 11, 1949 (age 75) Astoria, Queens, United States |
| Occupation | Film critic |
Louis J. Lumenick (born September 11, 1949) is an Americanfilm critic. He was the chief film critic and film editor for theNew York Post where he reviewed films from 1999 until his retirement in 2016.
Lumenick was born and raised inAstoria, Queens. He attendedCity College of New York (CCNY) and took filmmaking courses atThe New School. He previously worked atThe Hartford Times, a defunct newspaper inConnecticut, andThe Record inNew Jersey, reviewing films over a nine-year span for the latter.[1] He was metropolitan editor at thePost before taking the film reviewer position.
In 2007 he was inducted into the CCNY Communications Hall of Fame.[2] He is a member of theNew York Film Critics Circle. Lumenick and Farran Smith Nehme conceived and created "Shadows of Russia," a 20-film series that aired in January, 2010, onTurner Classic Movies.[3] He also appeared as an on-air TCM guest programmer in October 2010 as part of the Critic's Choice film series, introducingThe Last Flight andAll Through the Nightwith Robert Osborne. His essay onIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is included inThe Criterion Collection's January 2014 release of the film. Lumenick has introduced films at the United Palace (the former Loews 175th Street) in Washington Heights, Manhattan, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, Loews Jersey and at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. He has also recorded introductions for DVD releases of several classic films for the Troma Team's Roan Group label.
At the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, during the premiere ofSlumdog Millionaire, Lumenick was sitting in front ofRoger Ebert, who both could not speak and was unable to freely move his head due to his medical condition caused by cancer. Ebert was inconvenienced by Lumenick obstructing his line of sight, could not see the subtitles,[4] and tapped him on the shoulder a few times to get him to move a bit to the side. Lumenick abruptly rose from his seat, shouting "Don't touch me!"; he did this again a few minutes later and then also hit Ebert with a large binder, causing a loud noise that reportedly startled the audience. He then understood that he had yelled at and hit Ebert, but reportedly did not apologize at the time.[5][6]
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