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Sarris was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Greek immigrant parents, Themis (née Katavolos) and George Andrew Sarris, and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens. [2] After attending John Adams High School in South Ozone Park (where he overlapped with Jimmy Breslin), he graduated from Columbia University in 1951 and then served for three years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, during the Korean War, before ...
In a rare film review, filmmaker Erich von Stroheim criticized the film's story and non-linear structure, but praised the technical style and performances, and wrote "Whatever the truth may be about it, Citizen Kane is a great picture and will go down in screen history. More power to Welles!" [124] Some prominent critics wrote negative reviews.
Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈ iː b ər t / EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author.He was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.
Ian McKellen luxuriates in the role of Jimmy Erskine, longtime theatre critic at The London Chronicle, whose position is threatened after the death of his former editor and mentor, who’s been ...
Chicago critic Roger Ebert (right) with director Russ Meyer. Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general journalistic criticism that appears regularly ...
Mark Kermode (The Observer, BBC Radio Five Live) Anthony Lane (The New Yorker) Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle) C.A. Lejeune (The Observer) Christy Lemire (Associated Press) Emanuel Levy ( Lou Lumenick (New York Post) Jeffrey Lyons ; Derek Malcolm (The Guardian) Leonard Maltin (Entertainment Tonight, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide)
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Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time from 1965–2010, and also wrote for Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His last writings about film were for Truthdig.