The Film Experience has been recognized as "a pretty hip blog" (The New York Times) and "exuberant, optimistic and quick-witted" (Vanity Fair). Come visit us for the passionate daily cinematic observations. "Awards, Actresses, Cinematic Musings..." that's what we serve up with a little something from all cinematic eras / genres and occasional forays theater and television.
EDITOR | CHIEF CONTRIBUTOR
Nathaniel Rogers
Nathaniel R is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and GALECA, the Society for LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. He is aongtime Oscar pundit (Gurus of Gold), and his writing has appeared in both online publications (Towleroad, Show-Score, Slate, and Tribeca Film) and print magazines (Vanity Fair, Esquire and Winq). Nathaniel has served on international festival juries and appeared as an on-air Oscar pundit for CNNi.
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PODCAST CO-HOST
Murtada Elfadl
Murtada finally understood what magic was when he saw Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman. He’s been mesmerized by movies ever since. From Khartoum, Sudan he decided to move to New York City when he got a New Yorker subscription at the age of 15. Many years later, the city remains his favorite place, he just wishes more movies in Arabic played here.
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SENIOR COLUMNISTS
Jason Adams
While he wishes his parents had named him after the killer in the Friday the 13th movies, he takes comfort in the fact that on their first date they went to see The Exorcist. He writes lots of daily nonsense at My New Plaid Pants, mostly about movies and dudes in movies, not necessarily in that order.
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Cláudio Alves (Almost There)
Cláudio is a Portuguese film writer who's been an avid cinephile since his parents decided to take their surprisingly quiet baby to watch the latest Disney picture. After studying Theatre in college, he worked as a costume designer for several small productions and started writing for Magazine.HD. Since then, he's written for Film in PT, Photogénie and participated in the 2017 Young Critics Workshop at the Ghent Film Festival. Openly gay and the proud owner of a feline angel by the name of Maggie The Cat.
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Glenn Dunks (Doc Corner)
Glenn is an Australia-based film writer. He occcasionally works day jobs with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Sydney Film Festival while seeking out documentaries, obscure Australian cinema and queer art films. His freelance writings and film criticism have appeared online at Junkee, Vanity Fair, Weekly Gravy, Quickflix and many more as well as in print in Paradise Magazine, The Big Issue and Metro Magazine. In 2014 he won the Australian Film Critics’ Association’s prize for writing on Australian cinema and has served on FIPRESCI juries at Stockholm and San Francisco film festivals.
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OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
Christopher James (Gay Best Friend)
Chris James works by day as a Digital Marketing Specialist at Fandango. By night, he's a freelance entertainment writer and Rotten Tomatoes approved critic. His writing can be seen at The Film Experience, Awards Radar and (formerly) Awards Circuit, where he was the assistant TV editor. He also hosts the podcast "The People vs. Oscar," which pits the Best Picture winner against the highest grossing film worldwide of the same year. Julia Roberts introduced Chris to actressexuality, Nicole Kidman radicalized him. Chris originally hails from Lodi, California, a small wine town located near the airport where Laurie Metcalf cried in "Lady Bird." Currently, he lives in East Hollywood and works in Beverly Hills, just like his hero Vivian Ward. He is a member of the Hollywood Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, Online Film and Television Association and Online Film Critics Society.
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Baby Clyde
Oscar obsessive and Golden Age Hollywood fanatic, all of which can be attributed to witnessing Geraldine Page’s Best Actress win when he was a small child. Nothing was ever the same again. Casting director and model agent by trade, he begrudgingly makes time for this in between watching Classic films and re-ranking Academy Award nominations. He has been waging a war on category fraud for decades. It’s a battle he is currently losing. He thinks Spice World is a masterpiece. His love of Movie Stars is equalled only by his love of 90’s Supermodels, Track and Field, Basset Dogs and Cher.[Twitter | Letterboxd | All of Baby's articles]
Eric Blume
Eric is a TV writer and director. He has written and directed material for TBS, Lifetime, E!, truTV, Spike, Syfy, HGTV, Cartoon Network, Funny or Die, as well as some commercials and branded content. He worked forever at Comedy Central, where he interviewed and directed Hollywood talent for exclusive content. He's particularly proud of shooting Ryan Gosling against the Mediterranean Sea, coercing Seth Rogen and James Franco to make out, and getting lost in Alexander Skarsgard's bellybutton hairs during a sound snafu.
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Lynn Lee
Lynn is a government lawyer who spends most of her time outside work obsessing over arts and pop culture of all kinds. Her first love, though, will always be movies, thanks to parents who raised her on an eclectic diet of Ingmar Bergman, talky French films, 1960s musicals, Star Wars, and Spielberg blockbusters. You can find her occasional musings on movies and TV on her blog.
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Deborah Lipp
Deborah divides her time between writing about pop culture and holding a day job. She is co-owner and chief writer at Basket of Kisses, “Smart Discussion About Smart Television”. She is also the author of The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book. In her other persona, Deborah is the author of six occult books, most recently Tarot Interactions and Merry Meet Again. Deborah lives in Jersey City, NJ with Professor Spouse and an assortment of cats.
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Michael Cusumano
Michael is a freelance writer living in Astoria, NY. His obsessions include Akira Kurosawa, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Bojack Horseman. He was Buster Keaton last Halloween and made his own porkpie hat following Buster’s instructions.
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Juan Carlos Ojano
Carlos is a Filipino film graduate who hesitates to call himself a filmmaker despite making a few short films and working in various film productions. He commits most of his time in his podcast The One-Inch Barrier. Once in a while, he develops scripts and concepts for films and TV series. He started his own film blog when he was 14 years old. Titanic is his film awakening (in more ways than one). Best Actress is his favorite category during awards season. He rewatches episodes of The Handmaid's Tale on a weirdly regular basis. He is also a big fan of Meryl Streep and figure skating. His dream is to win an Oscar, but he's not yet sure in which category.
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Ben Miller
Ben Miller has been obsessed with film since he saw his first piece of celluloid. When he isn't holding down a day job, he lives in Texas with his wife, two children and a gym membership. You can find his personal musings at his site, Ice Cream for Freaks and listen to his podcast The Film Critic & The Common Man
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Abe Fried-Tanzer
Abe has been writing about film, television, and awards at MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com in his spare time since he first got to take in the breadth of the movie world in New York City during college. He has attended a number of film festivals and always enjoys the opportunity to sit through up to five movies in a row. Since leaving New York to embark on a potentially endless series of road trips with his wife Arielle, he has pledged to continue watching as many movies and TV shows as possible.
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Camila Henriques
Camila is a Brazilian journalist who has been obsessed (and subsequently) disappointed with the Oscars since Gloria Stuart lost to Kim Basinger and Fernanda Montenegro was nominated for Central Station (that one still hurts). Her love of film blossomed when she discovered the big Hollywood classics while also mantaining a soft spot for those not so guilty pleasures. She has maybe rewatched Dawson's Creek more times than she should. Camila writes for Brazilian film website Cine Set. Since 2017, she has been a part of the Elviras Collective, a group that unites female film critics from all over Brazil.
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Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor is a writer currently living in Columbus. He graduated from UChicago with an MA in Cinema and Media Studies in 2021, and is really hoping to make a career from writing about and studying film. Nick spent 2019 writing and editing study guides for the Chicago Film Festival’s education program. He’s been delighted to devote so much time to supporting actressing, and also has a personal blog he occasionally updates.
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Daniel Walber (The Furniture)
Daniel Walber is a freelance writer and critic based in Brooklyn. He has written for Nonfics, Film School Rejects, The Film Stage, Dok.revue, and The Brooklyn Rail. Never one to turn down a list, he’s on an endless quest to see every Oscar nominee for Best Animated Short and Best Production Design. He’s also healthily obsessed with opera, documentaries, and the films of Derek Jarman.
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Mark Brinkerhoff
Elisa Giudici
The Film Experience is always looking for sharp, funny, obsessive voices and we'd love to have more women in house! Why is it always men that wanna talk Oscars? Future team members must have the following five:
- Strong accessible writing skills
- Unique takes on current cinema and the arts in general
- Interest in showbiz awards, Oscars in particular
- Passion for movies that bleeds into their every day life in some demonstrable or engaging way.
- Commitment to contribute once monthly
Interested parties should contact Nathaniel
And a final thank you to previous contributors who have moved on or took sabbaticals or still pop up on rare occassions and are welcome back at any time! Adam Armstrong, Daniel Bayer, Angelica Jade Bastién, Manuel Betancourt, Josh Bierman, Tim Brayton, Spencer Coyle, Daniel Crooke, Kyndall Cunningham, Bill Curran, Nick Davis, Margaret de Larios, Murtada Elfadl, Matthew Eng, Chris Feil, Josh Forward, Alexa Frangos, Salim Garimi, John Guerin, Anne Marie Kelly, Andrew Kendall, Gabriel Mayora, Sean McGovern, Ilich Mejia, Jorge Molina, Sebastian Nebel, R Kurt Osenlund, Joe Reid, Katey Rich, Tony Ruggio, Kieran Scarlett, Jose Solís, Amir Soltani, Andrew Boyd Stewart, Kyle Stevens, David Upton, Daniel Walber, and Brian Zitzel