Film critic
Beth Accomando |
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Born | Anne Beth Accomando |
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Alma mater | |
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Occupations | - Film critic
- arts reporter
- podcast host
- film festival curator
- film editor
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Employers | |
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Known for | Cinema Junkie |
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Notable credits | |
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Awards | 2023
Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award |
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Anne Beth Accomando Weidinger
[1]
[2] is a film and theatre critic for
KPBS, who formerly worked as an arts reporter for
NPR,
XETV and
The Star-News. She hosts the Cinema Junkie podcast and has curated several film events throughout San Diego County. Accomando edited the 1991 to 1992 sequels of the
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise and is part of the
Alliance of Women Film Journalists and
Critics' Choice Movie Awards. Her work has been distributed through several publications, including
RogerEbert.com.
Early life
Upon graduating from
Bonita Vista High School in 1978,
[2] Accomando was the recipient of the
Bank of America certificate for English and was Chula Vista Elks Most Valuable Scholar.
[3] While in college, she was a special writer for
The Star-News.
[4] Accomando graduated from
University of California, San Diego in 1982
[5] with a degree in communications and visual arts.
[6]
Career
Accomando is a theatre and film critic
[7] for
KPBS
[8] who reviewed films such as
Sucker Punch,
[8]
The Fall,
[9]
The Brave One,
[10]
[11] and
Knocked Up.
[12] She runs a podcast called Cinema Junkie
[9] and in 2014, Accomando organized the Film Geeks late-night screenings at
Digital Gym Cinema.
[13] She described just how much
George Romero's
Night of the Living Dead influenced
Edgar Wright's
Shaun of the Dead.
[14]
In 1985, Accomando was one of 12 women featured in A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-two Emerging Artists at
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.
[15] In the early 1990s, she was the film editor for
Killer Tomatoes Strike Back and
Killer Tomatoes Eat France.
[16] Accomando worked for
XETV-TDT in 1992
[17] and in 1998, introduced the film
Rashomon at Landmark's Ken Cinema.
[18]
In 2000, Accomando curated an event in San Diego that held premieres for
Butterfly and Sword,
Eastern Condors,
Holy Weapon,
The Magic Crystal,
Pedicab Driver and
Shanghai Blues.
[19] She wrote for
National Public Radio
[20] and helped put together an Asian festival at University of California, San Diego.
[21] In a 2007 interview,
Lee Ann Kim described Accomando as the one "who really plugged me into international Asian film".
[22] Accomando has interviewed
Chow Yun Fat,
Jackie Chan,
Stanley Tong and
John Woo.
[23] She was a panelist at UCSD's Up & Coming Film Festival with
Ham Tran in 2008,
[24]
Ligiah Villalobos in 2009,
[25] and with
Arthur Ollman in 2011.
[26] In 2016, Accomando judged a play called Killing Buddha at
San Diego International Fringe Festival.
[7]
In 2021, Accomando was part of a Storytelling in Film panel with
Neal Hallford and
Jonathan Hammond at
San Diego Comic Con.
[27] She hosted Flicks on the Bricks in 2018,
[28] 2022 and 2023 at
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library.
[29]
[30]
[31]
Filmography
Awards
Selected works
Articles
Publications
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"UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DIEGO STUDENT FILMMAKERS PUSH ENVELOPE IN THIRD ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL".
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External links