Daniel Kimmel
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Daniel
Kimmel...film critic and author
 Daniel
M. Kimmel is a Boston-area film reviewer and past president
of the Boston Society of Film Critics. He has been reviewing
since 1983. His work currently appears in the Worcester
Telegram and Gazette. He also serves as the Boston
correspondent for Variety, the “Bible of
Show Business.” Kimmel’s byline has appeared
in numerous publications including the Christian
Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, Film
Comment, and Cinefantastique. He has served
as contributing editor to the Boston Business Journal
and did the “Inside Boston Television” column
for the Boston Herald. He is a frequent guest
on New England Cable News, serving as substitute film
critic during summer 2002. He also does a column on
classic science fiction films for Artemis magazine.
He is the co-author of the play “The Waldorf Conference,”
about the birth of the Hollywood blacklist, and of the
book of essays Love Stories: Hollywood’s Most
Romantic Movies (Longmeadow Press, 1992). His book
on the FOX television, The Fourth Network: How FOX
Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television, was published
by Ivan R. Dee in June 2004.
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As a speaker Kimmel
draws on his experiences seeing more than 300 movies each
year as well as his time teaching college. Since 1985 he has
taught film-related courses at Emerson College, Boston University,
and, since 1998, at Suffolk University. It was at Emerson
that he received what he considers one of the highest compliments
of his professional career when a student evaluation noted,
“He makes an eight o’clock class worth getting up
for.”
Kimmel has spoken
before a wide variety of groups: Mensa (the high IQ organization),
Alpha Omega (a fraternal dental organization), Massachusetts’
Department of Mental Health, a Harvard University conference
on drug laws, Brookline Rotary, the World Science Fiction
Convention, and numerous synagogue, brotherhood, and sisterhood
groups. He also speaks regularly for Brookline Adult Education,
and the two leading science fiction conventions in the Boston
area, ARISIA and BOSKONE. Besides general lectures, he has
also spoken on individual films at Temple Israel (Boston),
Heritage House, Talk Cinema, and Congregation Mishkan Tefila,
and the Solomon Shechter PTO. He also appears with some
frequency on radio and TV including “The David Brudnoy
Show” (WBZ-AM), “Jay Carr’s Screening Room”
(New England Cable News), and “Talking Religion”
(WRKO-AM).
Suggested Lecture
Topics:
The Fourth Network: How FOX Changed The Rules of Television
The Hollywood Blacklist
Who Needs Film Critics?
The Holocaust on Film
Ten Movies that Changed the Movies
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