email address: rglatzer@comcast.net
Robert Glatzer is the film critic for Spokane Public Radio; his reviews are heard each Friday and Sunday on Morning Edition. He hosts the weekly public radio show “Movies 101,” broadcast on Friday evenings and Saturdays. The show is available as a podcast. His website is www.movies101.com, on which all his reviews and articles are posted. He was the founding director of the Spokane International Film Festival, held each year at the end of January.
Mr. Glatzer started in films in New York in the 1960s, as a producer and director of television shows, commercials and documentaries. In 1967 his short film “Friendly Game” was a festival selection and award winner at a number of festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Mannheim, San Francisco and Chicago. He is the author of the book “Beyond Popcorn: A Critic’s Guide to Looking at Films,” published in 2001 by Eastern Washington University Press, and also “The New Advertising,” published in 1970 by Citadel Press. He is working on a new book, also about films. In New York City he was a film critic for two Manhattan weeklies, and he has taught film as art and film directing, in New York at the School of Visual Arts and in Spokane at Eastern Washington University. He lives in an 1894 house on the Spokane River with his wife and their fashionable Australian Shepherd Oscar de la Renta.