2010 Presenters

Ty Burr

Ty Burr is a film critic for the Boston Globe, a position he has held since July 2002. For ten years prior to that, he worked for Entertainment Weekly covering movies, video, music, theater, books, and the internet. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, where he helped program the Cinemax pay-cable service.

Ty’s book, The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together, was published by Anchor Books in February, 2007. Two earlier books, The Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time (Time-Life Books, 1999) and The Hundred Greatest Stars of All Time (Time-Life Books, 1998), were written while he was at Entertainment Weekly. His current project is a book on the cultural history of movie stardom, to be published by Random House. Ty has also written articles on film and other subjects for the New York Times, Spin, the Boston Phoenix, and other publications. He regularly appears on such local and national media programs as WBUR’s “Here and Now” and WGBH’s “Greater Boston” and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Film and TV department of Boston University.

LINKS:

Ty Burr's movie review archives in The Boston Globe 

Ty Burr's Entertainment Weekly Reviews 

Ty Burr participates in a panel on Chinese Americans in American cinema on Forum Network

Ty Burr interviews George Lucas