Member Profile
Robert Horton
- Primary Outlet:
- Scarecrow
- Additional Outlets:
- roberthorton.wordpress.com
- Website:
- http://roberthorton.wordpress.com
- Facebook:
- https://www.facebook.com/robert.horton.1088?ref=tn_tnmn
- X (formerly Twitter):
- @citizenhorton
- Biography:
- Member, National Society of Film Critics and “Historian-Programmer in Residence” at the nonprofit Scarecrow Video Project. Robert hosts the radio program "The Music and the Movies" and for many years was film critic for Seattle Weekly and the Everett Herald, and a regular contributor to Film Comment. He leads regular online classes for Scarecrow Academy, has been a Fulbright Specialist (Romania, 2016), adjunct professor at Seattle University and the Seattle Film Institute, instructor at the Architectural Association in London, and a speaker with Smithsonian Journeys. For 10 years he curated the “Magic Lantern” film program at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. He has served on FIPRESCI juries in Odesa, Ljubljana, Seattle, Mannheim-Heidelberg, Hong Kong, Indianapolis, Berlin, Guadalajara, Montreal, and Palm Springs. Film books include Frankenstein (Columbia University Press) and Billy Wilder: Interviews (U. Press of Mississippi).