RIP Ann Hornaday, a Newspaper Film Critic Survivor
News Source : IndieWire
News Summary
- Ann Hornaday was a pioneering woman reviewer who raised a family.
- Her reviews and essays made her a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2008.
- She cared about reaching people with her writing, not talking down to them.
- One of her favorite movies, Ridley Scott’s “Thelma and Louise,” echoes one of her ongoing concerns — women.
- “She was also generous and funny and kind and would send random notes praising your work and sign them, ‘Your fan, always,'” tweeted former Washington Post writer Jada Yuan.
On Monday, after learning the sad news of Washington Post critic Ann Hornadays death at age 66 from brain cancer, I walked out of a screening full of film critics with Thelma Adams (The Wrap).
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