STEPHEN FARBER was president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, one of the country’s pre-eminent critics’ organizations, from 2012-2016.  Farber has written reviews and articles on film for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Beast, Movieline’s Hollywood Life, Esquire, New York, New West, Harper’s Bazaar, Premiere, Film Comment, and many other national publications.  He has interviewed hundreds of top actors, writers, directors, and producers for these newspapers and magazines.

In partnership with Laemmle Theatres, Stephen Farber is the host and producer of REEL TALK, a popular film series that features screenings and discussions of new movies, with their directors or stars in attendance.  Before launching that series, Farber taught a similar “Sneak Preview” class for UCLA Extension.  He has also lectured on film at several other American universities, at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in Oslo, and throughout Australia and New Zealand in a program sponsored by the Australian Film and Television School and the New Zealand Film Commission.

Farber has led tours to film festivals in Venice, Havana, Maui, Berlin, New York, San Sebastian, and Montreal.  He has hosted celebrity tributes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, AFI Fest, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival.

Farber produced three episodes of the Arts & Entertainment network’s acclaimed “Biography” series in conjunction with Peter Jones Productions.  “Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows” was broadcast in January 1999, “Spencer Tracy: Triumph and Turmoil” appeared in June 1999, and “Roman Polanski: Reflections of Darkness” was shown in February 2000.

Farber has written screenplays for directors Sydney Pollack, Herbert Ross and Barry Levinson.  His most recent screenplay was written for director Philip Kaufman and Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Stephen Farber has written several acclaimed books on film:  The Movie Rating Game (1972, Public Affairs Press), Hollywood Dynasties (1984, Delilah/Putnam), Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case (1988, Arbor House/Morrow), Hollywood on the Couch (1993, Morrow), and his most recent book, Cinema ’62: The Greatest Year at the Movies (2020, Rutgers University Press).  All of these books have been serialized at the time of publication and have been cited frequently in subsequent articles and books about the film industry.

Farber graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College and received an M.A. in English at UC Berkeley and a second M.A. in theater arts at UCLA.