Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, is a U.S. film critic and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism. He is generally credited with popularising this theory in the Americas and coining the term "auteur theory" in his essay, "Notes on the Auteur Theory," which was inspired by critics writing in "Cahiers du Cinéma".

He wrote the highly influential book "The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968", published in 1968, an opinionated assessment of films of the sound era, organized by director. The book was influential on other critics and helped raise an awareness of the role of the film director among the general public. In "The American Cinema", Sarris lists what he terms the "Pantheon" of the fourteen greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. The list includes the Americans Robert Flaherty, John Ford, D. W. Griffith, Howard Hawks, Buster Keaton, and Orson Welles, the Germans Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, F. W. Murnau, Max Ophuls, and Josef von Sternberg, the British Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, and the French Jean Renoir. He also created second and third tiers of directors, downplaying the work of some such as Billy Wilder, David Lean, and Stanley Kubrick. In his 1998 book, "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film, History and Memory 1927-1949" Sarris upgraded the status of Billy Wilder to pantheon level and apologized for his earlier harsh opinion of the director in "The American Cinema".

For many years he wrote for "The Village Voice", and it was during this part of his career that he was often seen as a rival to Pauline Kael, who had originally attacked the auteur theory in her essay, "Circles and Squares". He continues to write film criticism today for "The New York Observer", and is a professor at Columbia University, his alma mater. Sarris was a co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics.

He is married to fellow film critic, Molly Haskell.

In the film "Galaxy Quest", Sarris' name is given to the character of an evil warlord. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/trivia]

Bibliography

*"The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968"
*"Confessions of a Cultist"
*"The Primal Screen"
*"Politics And Cinema"
*"The John Ford Movie Mystery"
*"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: The American Talking Film – History and Memory, 1927-1949"

External links

* [http://www.observer.com/node/36022 Andrew Sarris' "New York Observer" movie review archive]
* [http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/sarris.html Andrew Sarris' Top Ten Lists: 1958-2006]
* [http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/5-6-2005/sarris.htm Kent Jones' tribute to Sarris in "Film Comment"]
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