Michael Phillips on "Why Go to the Movies?"
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 2017-03-07

Why go to the movies? With TV in a golden age, and our real-life political reality show so gripping as a binge-watch narrative, some say the movies have lost their place in the culture.

Not so fast, argues Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips as part of the ASU Film and Media Studies Guest Speaker Series. He'll talk with the ASU community about the death of traditional movie going, the pointlessness of film criticism in the 21st century and other slight exaggerations.

Michael Phillips is the film critic for the Chicago Tribune, and a guest host on Turner Classic Movies (he’s back on the beloved cable channel in April 2017). He has written about arts, culture and the movies for the Los Angeles Times; the San Diego Union-Tribune; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; the Dallas Times-Herald; and the Twin Cities weekly City Pages, where he began his career in 1983. Born in Kenosha, WI, Phillips has chaired the drama jury of the Pulitzer Prizes and served on Pulitzer juries across three decades. He has appeared on everything from "CBS Saturday Morning" to "Charlie Rose" to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" to "Entourage." He advises the Roger Ebert Fellowship at the University of Illinois, and he’s very happy to be visiting ASU for the first time.

The Film and Media Studies Program is part of ASU's Department of English, an academic unit of the College and Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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