Leonard Maltin to be Keynote Speaker at 2014 Art House Convergence

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Tue, 10/22/2013 - 11:39 -- Nick Dager

Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin will be a keynote speaker at the seventh annual Art House Convergence.Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin will be a keynote speaker at the seventh annual Art House Convergence, which is being held January 13-16, 2014 in Midway, Utah in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival.

Maltin is a respected film critic and historian, perhaps best known for his annual paperback reference Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, which was first published in 1969, and Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide in 2005, newly revised in 2010. His latest book is Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen. 

He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and was a member of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in New York City. For six years he was film critic for Playboy magazine. He has served as Guest Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, and was President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 1995 and 1996. In 1997 he was named to the National Film Preservation Board, and in 2006 was selected by the Librarian of Congress to sit on the Board of Directors for the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Visit http://www.arthouseconvergence.org more information on the 2014 Art House Convergence program.