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The National Society of Film Critics has been advancing the cause of great filmmaking and criticism for half a century.
To celebrate, member critics have teamed up with curators from Boston to L.A. to choose from among the group’s fifty Best Pictures in order to present screenings with talks.
Presentations have included Blue Velvet, Stranger Than Paradise, There Will Be Blood, and Life is Sweet.
Here is a list of the events and venues; other events are in the works.
March – Film Forum, New York City
May and June – the Music Box Theatre, Chicago
October – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
December – American Cinemateque, Los Angeles
A N N U A L A W A R D S F O R B E S T F I L M
A complete list of members and awards in all categories can be found at NationalSocietyofFilmCritics.com.
OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE NSFC
The National Society of Film Critics counts among its members many of the country’s leading film critics. Its purpose is to promote the mutual interests of film criticism and filmmaking. Founded in l966, the Society differs from other critical associations in a number of significant ways. In the first place, it is truly national. Secondly, membership is by election. The 54 members include the critics from major papers and outlets in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Its members also include critics not just of The Wall St. Journal, The L.A. Times and The New Yorker, but also of The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor and NPR.
The Society represents movie criticism in the United States by supplying the official critic delegate to the National Film Registration Board of the Library of Congress and abroad as the official American representative in FIPRESCI, the international federation of members of the film press.
Besides publishing themed anthologies and responding to specific issues, such as imprisoned filmmakers, film preservation, or the ratings system, the Society regularly meets early in January to vote on the Society’s awards for the finest film achievements of the year.
The Society’s most recent anthologies are The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love; The X List: The National Society of Film Critics’ Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On; and The A List: 100 Essential Films. In the 1990’s, the Society published Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen; Foreign Affairs, its counterpart for foreign films; Love and Hisses, a guide to the most controversial films and issues; They Went Thataway: Redefining Film Genres; and Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence, and Censorship. Earlier, the Society published six volumes of annual reviews, as well as The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy and The National Society of Film Critics on the Movie Star. The group can genuinely be said to represent the best of contemporary American film criticism.
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