Artistic Directors

As Newsweek's veteran movie critic, David Ansen has reviewed thousands of movies during his career. The eyestrain is about to grow even worse: Ansen was named Monday as the artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. In his new position picking some 80 dramatic and documentary features for the LAFF, Ansen and his programming staff must sort through as many as 5,000 annual submissions. But Ansen said his long career reviewing movies (Ansen was the magazine's critic from 1977 to 2008 and now serves as a Newsweek contributing editor)