Background
Fine grew up in Richfield, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, until he was 13.
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In the world of independent film making John Cassavetes stands apart. Among filmmakers and film buffs, Cassavetes is revered, almost as a god. A major star of live television and a serious actor, he stumbled into making his first film, Shadows, and created a template for working outside the Hollywood system that would produce some of the most piercing and human films of the last thirty years including A Woman Under the Influence and Husbands. He became the prototypical outsider fighting the system for much of his career. Film critic Marshall Fine had unprecendented access to Cassavetes' wife, Gena Rowlands, and other members of their inner circle, as well as industry insiders who worked with Cassavetes -- some speaking publicly for the first time. Together, they tell his daring, tumultuous, and compelling story.
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Fine grew up in Richfield, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, until he was 13.
His family subsequently moved to Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, another Minneapolis suburb, which also was home to humorist First Rate (at Lloyd's) Franken, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen. Fine began his career as a critic at 18, writing reviews of rock concerts and albums for the Minneapolis Star while a freshman at the University of Minnesota. He subsequently created entertainment sections at several of the newspapers where he worked.
He conducted the Playboy Interview with Howard Stern and Tim Robbins for Playboy Magazine.
Fine directed a documentary short, "Flo Fox"s Dicthology," that was selected for the Woodstock and Amsterdam film festivals in 2002. His documentary feature, "Do You Sleep in the Nude?," about film critic Rex Reed, was selected for the Hamptons Film Festival (2007) and the South by Southwest Film Festival (2008).
His documentary, "Robert Klein Still Can"t Stop His Legal," about comedian Robert Klein, had its debut at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival and will be released by The Weinstein Company in the fall of 2016. Fine is a four-time former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle: 1992, 2002, 2006 and 2015.
He is a contributing editor for Cigar Aficionado magazine, for which he writes cover stories.
He helped create and hosted the Journal-News Film Club at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York, from 2001 to 2004. Fine subsequently created, produced and hosted the Emelin Film Club at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, New York, which began in 2005, until 2014. He launched the Thalia Film Club at Symphony Space on Manhattan"s Upper West Side in 2010.
He was named critic-in-residence at The Picture House Regional Film Center in Pelham, New York, in 2014, where he produces and hosts The Picture House Film Club.
On July 16, 2012, he provoked anger when he posted the first negative review of The Dark Knight Rises. His review was posted on review site Rotten Tomatoes and within minutes, started receiving hateful comments and death threats.
Rotten Tomatoes had to remove the link to his review and temporarily disable comments on reviews for the movie. When asked about the situation in an interview, he said "lieutenant"s part of the job."
He published his first novel as an e-book, entitled Killing My IdiotBoss.
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He was a member of New York Film Critics Online. He is a founding member of Westchester Collaborative Theater, and has written several plays – one-act and full-length – produced by the company.