Curiosidades

Member of the Board of Directors of the Jane Austen Society of North America.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival in 2002.

Film critic for the Los Angeles Times.

His top ten films of all time are: Sherlock Jr (1924), The Battleship Potemkin (1925), La Regle du Jeu (1939), Citizen Kane (1941), Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Madame de... (1953), The Seven Samurai (1954), Vertigo (1958) and The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather Part II (1974).