Thankful for... Deborah Lipp

This year for our "thankful for" column we're mixing it up a bit and interviewing our team to share our gratitude for them. I first met DEBORAH LIPP through a mutual obsession with Mad Men. I'm proud to call her a friend and had the pleasure of attending her wedding several years back.

Deborah has a busy life (new books out!) so we dont see her around these parts much but she began popping in on occasion way back in 2012. As a James Bond fan she's written about her 007 favourite 007 films (and lots of other Bond posts). She's also wondered if Notorious is Hitchcock's only feminist film and since she loves romoms she's sung the praises of several here including Kissing Jessica Stein, Moonstruck, and and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She most recently popped in to review the final Daniel Craig Bond film No Time To Die.

Our short interview follows...

When did you first fall in love with the movies?

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Thankful for... Juan Carlos Ojano

This year for our "thankful for" column I'm interviewing the team (well, the non-shy ones) so you can get to know them better and so I can express my sincere gratitude that they're showcased here on the site. Today, JUAN CARLOS OJANO.

Juan Carlos lives in the Philippines and began writing for The Film Experience in mid 2020. We were all trapped inside due to the COVID-19 pandemic at the time. Human connection was scarce so thank the cinematic gods for zoom sessions with Team Experience! Juan Carlos shares our collective TFE passion for actresses + Best International Feature Film. He put the latter into action creating the podcast "One Inch Barrier" where he reviews each year of that competition. He got personal with a Call Me By Your Name piece, revisited Spotlight, wrote numerous odes to The Handmaid's Tale,and just launched a biweekly series on female directors called "Through Her Lens" that I really hope you will obsess over. I'm already wondering which female directors he'll be looking at from the 00s and earlier when they were less frequently honored and discussed.

HERE'S OUR SHORT INTERVIEW...

When did you first fall in love with the movies?

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Thankful for... Ben Miller!

This year for our "thankful for" column we're doing things differently. I'm interviewing the team so you can get to know them better. First up, BEN MILLER.

Ben joined Team Experience in the summer of 2017. He lives in Texas with his wife and kids. Like most of us here at TFE he's into Oscars and the related niche trivia fascinations that come with that. In the few years he's been at TFE he's revealed impeccable taste in actresses, caught up with classics he'd missed like Cabaret and reviewed a lot of TV including the final season of Game of Thrones. And though he called his own piece on connecting with his son through WALL•E "corny,"  I personally love his family man perspective. Sometimes sentiment is earned! 

OUR THANKSGIVING QUESTIONNAIRE FOLLOWS...

Okay, Ben, when did you first fall in love with the movies?

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October. It's a Wrap.

Gulp. Just two months left in 2021. Here's what you might have missed but shouldn't have from the past month

A dozen highlights
• Girl Interrupted Matt has a personal connection to Winona Ryder's star vehicle to wrap up our team tribute to Winona for her 50th birthday
• King Richard and Belfast Crowdpleasing Oscar threats
• No Time To Die Deborah, our resident Bond expert, considers Daniel Craig's farewell
• Coffee & Contenders Nathaniel's annual panel at the Middleburg Film Festival
• Almost There: To Die For Cláudio takes on one of Nicole Kidman's most beloved star turns
• Yes No Maybe So: Being the Ricardos Nathaniel looks at the trailer

• Irene Dunne Baby Clyde wonders why the versatile actress isn't as big of a name to modern audiences as some of her glamorous peers still are
• C'mon C'mon Jason falls hard for Joaquin Phoenix's latest
• Gotham Nods they went all in for two Netflix titles: Passing and The Lost Daughter
• Gay Best Friend: Darling Christopher looks back at the 1965 film that was both totally of and ahead of its time.
• The Velvet Underground Glenn on Todd Haynes first documentary feature
• Dune (2021) Elisa thinks the Villeneuve picture is a dream come true
• Dune (1984) Claudio finally sits down with the notorious Lynch misfire

Previous wrap-ups if you're just rejoining us...
Oscar 2020 Wrap | May | June | July | Aug | Sept 

COMING IN NOVEMBER
A team experience tribute to Honorary Oscar winner Liv Ullman, the AFI festival in Los Angeles, Jane Campion's return with The Power of the Dog, new musicals Tick Tick Boom and Encanto, Marvel's superhero oddity Eternals, Kristen Stewart in Spencer. Plus interviews with Kenneth Branagh, Clifton Collins Jr, Ann Dowd and more... and probably some Thanksgiving activities. ANY REQUESTS?

Halfway Mark - Team Experience "Top Three" Random Joyfulness

Nathaniel here. Since I already shared my favourites of 2021 thus far in terms of films and performances, I asked the team about theirs halfway through the year. Since not everyone has had the opportunity to get fully back into the swing of moviegoing they were given free reign to share any kind of "top three" they wanted to. I felt such joy reading what made them the happiest, entertainment-wise, this year thus far. Maybe you will to. The various "top threes" after the jump...

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