David Denby (film critic)
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David Denby is an American film critic who writes for The New Yorker. At present (2007), he shares this role with Anthony Lane. Denby previously reviewed films for New York magazine. In his 1986 essay, "Can The Movies Be Saved?", Denby made an eerily prescient comment regarding the current president of the United States. Discussing the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he remarked that Ferris was like George Bush, Jr.(George W. Bush), in that he could screw around all he wanted because he knew that one day he would be top dog.
He published a book titled Great Books, about the Western canon-oriented Core Curriculum taught at his alma mater, Columbia University. He also wrote American Sucker, which details his investing misadventures in the stock market during the hi-tech boom while also in the midst of a divorce from Cathleen Schine and a major reassessment of his life.
- David Denby Archive of New York Magazine articles from Jan 1998 to Jan 2001.
- Forbes.com Q&A transcript of Feb 25, 2004 online chat with David Denby.