Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American [[film reviewer] and the author of two books on pre-Hays Code Hollywood. Up to March 2008, he had written inmore than 1550 reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle^[1] and he has been podcasting them since September 2005.^[2]

LaSalle is the author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, a history/critical study of the actresses who worked in the film industry between 1929-1934. It was published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2000. In his review in The New York Times, Andy Webster called it "an overdue examination of a historic conflict between Hollywood and would-be monitors of morality" and added LaSalle "has an avuncular but informative style, and makes his points with a relaxed economy."^[3]

The book served as the basis for the documentary film Complicated Women, directed by Hugh Munro Neely and narrated by Jane Fonda, which originally was broadcast by Turner Classic Movies in May 2003. LaSalle provided commentary for and was associate producer of the project.^[4]

LaSalle's follow-up to Complicated Women was Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, published by Thomas Dunne in 2002.

LaSalle has lectured on film subjects at various film festivals, including those in the Hamptons, Denver, Las Vegas, and Mill Valley and at New York City's Film Forum and San Francisco's Castro Theatre. For several years he taught a film course at the University of California, Berkeley, and now^[when?] teaches film courses at Stanford University.

In the late 1990s, LaSalle was the on-air film critic for KGO-TV. He is a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle,^[5] and was a panelist at the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Venice Film Festivals. He was also a panelist at the 2009 Berlin film festival. In addition to his reviews, he answers film-related questions in the Chronicle column Ask Mick LaSalle.

LaSalle is married to playwright Amy Freed.^[6]

Mick LaSalle's top ten lists

2010
Blue Valentine
The Ghost Writer
Mademoiselle Chambon
The King's Speech
Hereafter
Toy Story 3
The Social Network
Black Swan
The Kids are All Right
The Runaways

2009
Inglourious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air
Two Lovers
Revanche
Funny People
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Cheri
Summer Hours
Food, Inc.

2008
Revolutionary Road
Milk
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
I've Loved You So Long
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

References

1. ^ Mick LaSalle at Rotten Tomatoes
2. ^ San Francisco Chronicle podcasts
3. ^ The New York Times review of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
4. ^ Complicated Women at Turner Classic Movies
5. ^ SFFCC Members' Best & Worst of 2005
6. ^ The New York Times profile of Amy Freed, November 16, 2003

External links

• Mick LaSalle at the Internet Movie Database
• Mick LaSalle at the Metacritic
• Mick LaSalle at the San Francisco Chronicle
• Ask Mick LaSalle at the San Francisco Chronicle

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