Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine (born November 7, 1950) is an American author, journalist, filmmaker and film critic from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Marshall Fine
Born (1950-11-07) November 7, 1950
Minneapolis, Minnesota
OccupationJournalist, film critic, filmmaker

Early life

Fine grew up in Richfield, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, until he was 13. His family subsequently moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota, another Minneapolis suburb, which also was home to humorist Al Franken, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen.

Career

Fine began his career as a critic at 18, writing reviews of rock concerts and albums for the Minneapolis Star while a freshman at the University of Minnesota. He worked in newspapers from 1973-2004, at papers in Durango, Colo.; Lawrence, Kan.; Jackson, Miss.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Rochester, NY; Marin County, Calif.; and Westchester County, NY. He subsequently served as film/TV critic for Star magazine from 2004-2016, before retiring from reviewing.

He conducted the Playboy Interview with Howard Stern and Tim Robbins for Playboy Magazine.

Fine directed a documentary short, "Flo Fox's Dicthology," that was selected for the Woodstock and Amsterdam film festivals in 2002. His documentary feature, "Do You Sleep in the Nude?," about film critic Rex Reed, was selected for the Hamptons Film Festival (2007) and the South by Southwest Film Festival (2008). His documentary, "Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg," about comedian Robert Klein, had its debut at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival and subsequently played at Tribeca and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. It premiered on the Starz network in March 2017 and is currently unavailable because of The Weinstein Co. bankruptcy. He directed the New York Film Critics Circle's 2020 awards video.

He is the author of three biographies: "Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah" (1991); "Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness" (1997); and "Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the Independent Film" (2006).

Fine is a four-time former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle: 1992, 2002, 2006 and 2015. He was named general manager of the NYFCC in 2016 and retired from the position in 2021. He is a contributing editor for Cigar Aficionado magazine, for which he writes cover stories.[1]

He helped create and hosted the Journal-News Film Club at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, from 2001-2004. Fine subsequently created, produced and hosted the Emelin Film Club at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, NY, from 2005-2014.[2] He hosted the Thalia Film Club at Symphony Space on Manhattan's Upper West Side from 2010-14.[3]

He was named critic-in-residence at The Picture House Regional Film Center in Pelham, NY, in 2014, where he produces and hosts The Picture House Film Club. Since March 2020, the film club has been available online.

He served as an adjunct professor of journalism at Purchase College, SUNY, for the 2020-21 academic year.

On July 16, 2012, he provoked anger when he posted the first negative review of The Dark Knight Rises.[4] His review was posted on review site Rotten Tomatoes and within minutes, started receiving hateful comments and death threats.[5] Rotten Tomatoes had to remove the link to his review and temporarily disable comments on reviews for the movie.[6] When asked about the situation in an interview, he said "It's part of the job."[7]

He is a founding member of Westchester Collaborative Theater,[8] and has written several plays – one-act and full-length – produced by the company.

Bibliography
  • Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah (1991)
  • Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness (1997)
  • Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film (2005)

References
  1. Archived March 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Thalia Film Club". Symphony Space. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  4. Fine, Marshall. "Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises – A Dissenting View". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  5. Singer, Matt. "'Dark Knight Rises' Critic Receives Death Threats". Indiewire. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  6. Atchity, Matt. "The Dark Knight Rises – This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  7. Singer, Matt. "Marshall Fine on the Reaction to His 'Dark Knight Rises' Review: "It's Part of the Job."". Indiewire. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  8. "Westchester Collaborative Theater – Westchester Collaborative Theater". Wctheater.org. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
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