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Eddie Cockrell, Former Variety Critic and Film Programmer, Dies at 67


Eddie Cockrell, a film critic for Variety and other publications who also programmed films, died Dec. 29 at 67 in Sydney.

Jacobson said, “Eddie was a favorite with Talk Cinema audiences, who loved his energy, humor and inside baseball insight. He appeared at Talk Cinema for nearly two decades from its inception in Washington, D.C. in 1994, and in Philadelphia and New York at The Walter Reade at Lincoln Center, where he regularly returned on pilgrimages from Australia to see his family. film series in Munich, the Centre for Continuing Education in Sydney and Telefilm Canada’s Canadian Front program at MOMA.

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