If You Build It: 30 Years of Field of Dreams

Starz Inside: In the Gutter

Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Impressions of Dune

All About Bette

The One, the Only... Groucho

The Divine Garbo

David Ansen is an American film critic. He was a senior editor for Newsweek, where he served as film critic from 1977 to 2008 and subsequently contribute to the magazine in a freelance capacity. Prior to writing for Newsweek, he served as chief film critic for Boston's The Real Paper. Ansen appeared in This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
Ansen has also written several documentaries for television: on Greta Garbo (for TNT), Groucho Marx (HBO), Elizabeth Taylor (PBS), and the Ace Award-winning All About Bette (Bette Davis) for TNT. He was on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival from 1990 to 1998.
From 2010 to 2014, he was the artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2015, Ansen was named lead programmer of the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

David Ansen

Acted in

If You Build It: 30 Years of Field of Dreams

Starz Inside: In the Gutter

Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Impressions of Dune