Andrew Sarris
1928 - 2012
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Biography
Andrew Sarris was an influential American film critic known for pioneering the auteur theory in film criticism. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, Sarris became a leading figure in the world of cinema criticism through his writing for various publications such as The Village Voice and The New York Observer. He championed the idea that a director is the 'author' of a film, emphasizing the importance of a director's personal vision and thematic consistency across their body of work.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Film is the greatest artistic medium of the twentieth century.
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The cinema is an intermediate realm that bears a complex relation to the other arts.
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Cinema is a major art, not a minor art.
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Auteurism was a way of reading films in terms of their directorial power.
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If the auteur theory has any future, it will be on the Internet.