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20th June 2012, 19:56
Sarris brought la politique des Auteurs to the US with his 1963 article published in Film Culture magazine that he later expanded into book length as The American Cinema published in 1968.
Just a year before the book version was published I read the original article in a copy of Film Culture that I bought in a second hand bookstore (in some ways I prefer the article to the book.) I immediately sought out all the films he highlighted as the best works of the respective directors he included at revival theaters or on commercial broadcast television (replete with 3 minute interruptions every 12 minutes.) If he did nothing else Sarris pointed me and many others in the right direction.
For once the New York Times has an accurate and fairly respectable obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/movies/andrew-sarris-film-critic-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Just a year before the book version was published I read the original article in a copy of Film Culture that I bought in a second hand bookstore (in some ways I prefer the article to the book.) I immediately sought out all the films he highlighted as the best works of the respective directors he included at revival theaters or on commercial broadcast television (replete with 3 minute interruptions every 12 minutes.) If he did nothing else Sarris pointed me and many others in the right direction.
For once the New York Times has an accurate and fairly respectable obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/movies/andrew-sarris-film-critic-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all