Elvis Mitchell

Elvis Mitchell was film critic for the New York Times for 4 years from January 2000. He has also served as editor-at-large for Spin Magazine, and film critic for the Detroit Free Press, LA Weekly, California Magazine and Fort-Worth Star Telegram where he won the 1999 Association of Sunday and Feature Editor’s Excellence in Feature Writing Award for criticism.
He is currently the visiting lecturer on African and African-American studies and visual and environment studies at Harvard University and host of Turner Classic Movies Presents: Elvis Mitchell Under the Influence where he talks to celebrity guests about how classic film has influences their lives.