Education
Harlan Jacobson received a Bachelor"s Degree in English from Haverford College in 1971.
Harlan Jacobson received a Bachelor"s Degree in English from Haverford College in 1971.
Harlan Jacobson is an established film critic who has interviewed numerous actors, musicians, directors, and producers over his 30 year career, some of whom include Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams and Mia Farrow. Jacobson"s interview with Michael Moore ("Michael & Maine") in the December 1989 edition of Film Comment Magazine for the film Roger & Maine sparked an international debate over the methodology of Moore"s misrepresentation of then General Motors Chief Executive Officer Roger Smith in the film. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, United States of America Today, Newsday, The Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe and many other national news publications.
From 1982 to 1990 Harlan Jacobson was the Editor in Chief of Film Comment Magazine.
He continues to contribute articles and is co-editor of Film Comment to this day. Jacobson was a contributing author in Variety"s History of Show Business (Abrams, 1993), Jim Jarmusch"s Stranger Than Paradise (University Mississippi Press / 2001) as well as Steven Soderbergh"s The King of Cannes: Truth or Consequences (University Mississippi Press / 2002).