CinemaDope

CINEMADOPE.COM is a site dedicated to movie news and reviews by film critic – instructor Glenn Lovell.

Lovell is a nationally known entertainment writer. He has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. He was entertainment editor at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and film critic at the San Jose Mercury and KGO Radio in San Francisco.

You name the director, Lovell has probably interviewed him or her.

He has sat across the table from from Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Clarence Brown, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, King Vidor, Henry Hathaway, Andre De Toth, David Lean, Stanley Kramer, Jerry Lewis, Richard Brooks, Phil Karlson, Robert Wise, Mark Robson, Richard Fleischer, Robert Aldrich, Don Siegel, John Frankenheimer, Philip Kaufman, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Milos Forman, Jack Clayton, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Costa-Gavras, Bernardo Bertolucci, Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Sidney Lumet, Spike Lee, James Cameron, Nora Ephron, Alexander Payne, Bryan Singer, the Coen brothers and — phew! — Quentin Tarantino, to name more than a few.

In the realm of horror and sci-fi, two specialties, Lovell has interviewed John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Bob Clark, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, and Victor Salva.

Lovell’s critically acclaimed biography “Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges” was published in 2009 by University of Wisconsin Press. It is based on his  interviews with the  director of “Bad Day at Black Rock,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “The Great Escape” and “Ice Station Zebra.”  He has also contributed to numerous books, including “Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist,” “The International Dictionary of Film,” “Intro to Mass Communications,” and “The Pop Culture Zone: Writing Critically about Popular Culture.”

Lovell teaches film studies at De Anza College in Cupertino and Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, CA. He has also taught at San Francisco State and San Jose State universities.