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Kent Jones (critic)

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He worked at New Video, the first video store in Manhattan, before writing professionally as a film critic. He would later become a correspondent for
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and as the chairman of the festival's selection committee, overseeing his first programming slate in 2013. Jones would also be awarded a
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beginning in 1996, and he later became the publication's editor-at-large. A collection of his work was later published as
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where he studied filmmaking. Jones later recalled, "I had a very romantic notion of studying film with
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Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 2007.
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as an associate director programming in 1998. He then joined the selection committee for the
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In the early 1990s, Jones worked as a video archivist for
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Film critic
editor
film director
McGill University
New York University
film critic
filmmaker
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
McGill University
New York University
Nick Ray
Cahiers du Cinéma
Bookforum
Artforum
Cinema Scope
Film Comment
Martin Scorsese
Brill Building
A Letter to Elia
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Bruce Goldstein
Film Forum
Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York Film Festival
Richard Peña
New York Film Festival
Guggenheim Fellowship
Arnaud Desplechin
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Hitchcock/Truffaut

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