David Denby Audio & Video

It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously - they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure.

At the age of 48, film critic David Denby returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, to re-experience the core humanities courses...

A conversation with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, "The New York Times" film critic Janet Maslin, "New York Magazine"'s David Denby and Richard Corliss of "Time" about the best films of 1997 including "Titanic", "Amistad", "Good Will Hunting" and "Jackie Brown".

A conversation with author Christopher Hitchens of "Vanity Fair", Jon Meacham of "Newsweek", David Denby of "The New Yorker" and David Sterritt, film critic of "The Christian Science Monitor", about Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ".

What is snark? You recognize it when you see it - a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her effectiveness.

David Denby was a happy man, a content man with a good job, a wife and two sons, and an Upper West Side apartment....