About Joan Ellis
Scratch a genuine movie fan and you will uncover a hooky-playing youth.
Joan Ellis is one. In a Midwestern grade school
she began slipping off to the make-believe world of the local
movie house, and a lifelong romance began. At Vassar College she
was again diverted from schoolwork, this time by a Yale
man with a taste for adventure. At 19 and 21 the bride and groom
signed onto another make-believe world: the CIA, where they
trained for assignments as deep cover agents.
The experience made of Ellis a skeptic, a liberal, and a passionate
opponent of censorship.
After the CIA she raised three children, helped to build an
electronics company with her husband, and took on a bit of
unfinished business. Twenty-seven years after entering Vassar she
took her senior year at Princeton University.
Then the movies began to exert their old pull. Intrigued by the
way film reflects our culture (or is it the other way around?),
she slipped into full-time reviewing. Her reviews
earned a Critical Writing Award from the New Jersey Press
Association.
The film of
choice is what this homepage is about. Her opinions are yours to
savor, even quote, but please be sure to credit your source.
You can Email Joan Ellis at
fergle@aol.com
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