| Armond White is from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Columbia University and received a Masters in Fine Arts in Film History-Theory-Criticism. White has since taught cinema classes at Columbia, Fordham University, and Long Island University.
White has been the Film Critic for the New York Press since 1997. Previously, he was the Arts Editor and Film Critic for the City Sun.
White is the author of two books on contemporary culture: The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture that Shook the World and Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur.
In the New York Press, White called the use of Harry Nilsson's "He Needs Me" in director Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love as "the first stroke of genius Anderson has ever come up with." Visitor Comments:Links: |
