Kate Muir
Kate Muir is the chief film critic for The Times, and a novelist from Scotland.
Early life
She grew up in Dalmuir, West Dunbartonshire. She attended Westbourne School in Glasgow. She studied Jurisprudence and Politics at the University of Glasgow. She later completed a postgraduate journalism diploma at Cardiff University.
Career
She lived in New York, Paris, and Washington DC as a foreign features writer for The Times. She began at The Times in 1990.
She had a weekly column in The Times Saturday Magazine for 11 years. She became the main film critic at the paper in 2010.
At a Cannes press conference in 2011 her question regarding Nazi aesthetics resulted in a huge faux pas for Lars von Trier and his subsequent ban from the film festival.
Personal life
She was married to fellow Times feature writer and associate editor, and author, Ben Macintyre.[1] She has three children and lives in north London.
Publications
- West Coast, Headline Review, 4 September 2008, ISBN 0755325044[2]
- Left Bank, Headline Review, 2 January 2006, ISBN 0755325028 (released as a paperback on 25 September 2006)[3]
- Suffragette City, Pan Books, 9 July 1999, ISBN 0330389718
- Arms and the Woman
- The Insider's Guide to Paris