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Elvis Mitchell Heading to LACMA

Written by: FFT Webmaster | June 23rd, 2011

Veteran movie critic Elvis Mitchell has been named curator of the new weekly film series that will be staged by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Film Independent. Mitchell will relocate to Los Angeles for the position, which is full-time. He will start in July, with the first programming scheduled to screen in the fall. LACMA head Michael Govan said Mitchell will work closely with other curators and officials at LACMA and Film Independent.

In April, LACMA and Film Independent announced a series intended to showcase previews of new features and documentaries as well as retrospectives, filmmaker conversations and other programming. The news came after LACMA had faced harsh criticism for cutting back on its film offerings, and about two years after it nearly cut its film section entirely. The museum then decided to partner with Film Independent, which runs the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Mitchell, who has held reviewer positions at L.A. Weekly and the New York Times, has had a somewhat peripatetic career of late. Currently the host of KCRW’s pop-culture series “The Treatment,” he had initially been announced as the host of a new public-broadcasting show produced by Roger Ebert but didn’t wind up in the job. Earlier this year he signed up as co-chief film critic at Movieline but was let go about three months later. Ian Birnie, who has been with LACMA’s film department for more than a decade, is leaving the organization.

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