Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012

Andrew Sarris, influential film critic and writer has died. Mr. Sarris, who taught at Columbia University and was a wonderful writer about cinema with a deep knowledge of world film and insightful in his analysis and explication of the auteur in filmmaking.

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Mr. Sarris's writings for the NY Observer (through 2006) here

Kent Jones profile in Film Comment here

Michael Powell's profile in the NY Times here

I picked up this invaluable book at the 8th Street Bookstore when I was a

student at NYU in the early 1970s and have turned to it again and again

over the years both for his insights into film and his great earlier published writing.