12 Facts About Lou Lumenick

Louis J Lumenick was born on September 11,1949 and is an American film critic.

Lou Lumenick was the chief film critic and film editor for the New York Post where he reviewed films from 1999 until his retirement in 2016.

Lou Lumenick attended City College of New York and took filmmaking courses at The New School.

Lou Lumenick previously worked at The Hartford Times, a defunct newspaper in Connecticut, and The Record in New Jersey, reviewing films over a nine-year span for the latter.

Lou Lumenick was metropolitan editor at the Post before taking the film reviewer position.

Lou Lumenick is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

Lou Lumenick appeared as an on-air TCM guest programmer in October 2010 as part of the Critic's Choice film series, introducing The Last Flight and All Through the Night with Robert Osborne.

Lou Lumenick has introduced films at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, Loews Jersey and at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.

Lou Lumenick has recorded introductions for DVD releases of several classic films for the Troma Team's Roan Group label.

At the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, during the premiere of Slumdog Millionaire, Lou Lumenick was sitting in front of Roger Ebert, who both could not speak and was unable to freely move his head due to his medical condition caused by cancer.

Ebert was inconvenienced by Lou Lumenick obstructing his line of sight, could not see the subtitles, and tapped him on the shoulder a few times to get him to move a bit to the side.

Lou Lumenick then understood that he had yelled at and hit Ebert, but reportedly did not apologize at the time.