A rough cordiality attended to the relationship between Mr. Sarris and Ms. Kael, but that is not to overstate their détente. (Village Voice) (Note: this list is credited to "Andrew Harris," but I'm [MQD] sure it was a typo...Sarris had not yet begun his long stint as the VOICE's film critic) 01. Andrew Sarris, one of the nation’s most influential film critics and a champion of auteur theory, which holds that a director’s voice is central to great filmmaking, died on Wednesday at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. Sorry to hear Andrew Sarris passed away today, 20th June 2012. Andrew Sarris. “That’s O.K.,” Ms. Kael replied. The Village Voice-Wikipedia New York City’s iconic Village Voice is being resurrected as a digital website two years after it ceased operations. In the late 90s, I bumped into him at the most un-cinematic of places: a Chemical Bank ATM on The Upper West Side. His romance with movies was near to imprinted on his DNA. “We were cowed into thinking that only European cinema mattered,” Mr. Scorsese, who once shared a closet-size office in Times Square with Mr. Sarris, said in a 2009 interview. He only remembered me as the guy who said in class that the scene in MASH where the troops broadcast Frank Burns and Hot Lips Houlihan’s lovemaking was too cruel (I’ve since changed my mind, as those two Tea Party prototypes deserved it). The Linked Data Service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the Library of Congress. Andrew Sarris gained renown as an intellectual duelist, battling most spectacularly with Ms. Kael, who wrote for The New Yorker. Mr. Sarris also embraced, albeit with an occasional critical slap about their heads, Young Turks like Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola. Film historian and author. He was 83. Just nauseating. Here, one of his former students (and a critic in his own right) shares his memories of Sarris, who died this week at age 83. You could never tell with this guy. Dreams (Ingmar Bergman) 06. Winners. We never had to ask twice. And he continued to write on a typewriter into old age, eschewing a computer. For all the fierceness of his battles — he once took a poke at his former student and fellow Voice reviewer J. Hoberman, saying he was “freaking out on art-house acid” — he remained remarkably open to new experience. His death got me to thinking, and also blinking, through my tears about the great, insightful, instructive, infuriating things he said, as I sat through hundreds his classes. His film is not a film at all, but merely a pretext for a pictorial spread in Life magazine. Andrew Sarris, Village Voice Film Critic, Dies at 83. “Urgency” — his smile on this point was wistful — “seemed unavoidable.”. The editors instead embraced Mr. Sarris as a controversialist; argument was like mother’s milk at The Village Voice. “He had this courtly-as-learned-from-the-movies manner,” Ms. Haskell recalled. Also nominated as a finalist in Criticism in 1987: Frank Rich of The New York Times. August 1960. For his book reviews. He patted me affectionately on the shoulder and walked out, without giving me a verbal response. Other articles where Andrew Sarris is discussed: auteur theory: …by the American film critic Andrew Sarris—was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc. He had the timing of Groucho or Jack Benny. In Hawks, you either were one or you weren’t, in which case, get the hell out of the way. Then laughed in that high, inscrutable way of his. I told my professor I was glad he was well again. More than anyone else, he was responsible for introducing Americans to the Auteur Theory, the belief that the true author of a film is its director. He died on June 20, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City. Andrew Sarris, who loved movies, is dead at 83. It was bought by Street Media, which also owns LA Weekly and Irvine Weekly.The digital iteration of the Voice will resume operations in January 2021. Howard Hawks’s guys were obsessed with being professionals, no matter what the cost. " I first became acquainted with Andrew Sarris by reading his weekly film criticism in the "Village Voice" - it seems to have started more than 40 years ago. Mr. Sarris’s book “The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968” stands as his magnum opus. Professor Sarris, very possibly, made the whole country aware of a forgotten fella by the name of Preston Sturges. In 1960, Mekas, at that time a film reviewer for The Village Voice, asked Sarris to substitute for him. Courtly, incisive and acerbic in equal measure, Mr. Sarris came of critical age in the 1960s as the first great wave of foreign films washed ashore in the United States. Cultural Commerce Robert Downey – Sr.’s – Budget-Busting Ego-Booster by The Village Voice Archives December 23, 2019. Mr. Sarris played a major role in introducing Americans to European auteur theory, the idea that a great director speaks through his films no less than a master novelist speaks through his books. The Village Voice was an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City.While it ceased publication in 2017 and stopped generating online content in 2018, its archives are still accessible online. But his concerns lay elsewhere. By William Bastone, Jennifer Gonnerman, Michael Musto and Frank Owen. He obtained his master’s from Columbia in 1998. ", “It’s a make-it-or-break-it period for us. And I never saw him again. ... Film critic, the "Village Voice" and the "New York Observer". He dared to suggest, to our timid, British-bootlicking country, that American directors and the films – make that movies – they made, might be just as important as those by gentleman who wore white silk scarves, berets, and whispered “Action!” in Swedish, French, or Italian. Who knew Ingmar Bergman made a film called Brink Of Life, about a group of women in a maternity ward? Right here, I must mention that, to me (and all his students) he was always Professor Sarris, a man I took three courses with at Columbia University in the 80s. He had, of course, 33 years before, bestowed upon the bloody, dimestore original, the dual distinctions of High Art and Seriousness that must’ve made Hitchcock want to kiss him on the mouth. And, Sarris demonstrated, the Great Ones had themes that repeated film-to-film. If, as a screenwriter, you were to write a treatment of Andrew Sarris’s life, you’d have two riveting plot points to spin the story around. In defense of his favorites he was ardent; but to those who failed to measure up, he applied the lash. Always his love affair with movies sustained him. Mr. Lang’s apparent weaknesses are the consequences of his virtues. He recalled, as a teenager, sitting in his Queens aerie, listening to the Academy Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle award ceremonies, and developing his ideas, idiosyncratic and polemical, on film. Told once that Mr. Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” worked better under the influence of marijuana, he cadged a joint, went to the movie and found it a very different and agreeable experience. With the recent death of Andrew Sarris (October 31,1928 – June 20, 2012), we who lived cinema as a way of life in the sixties and seventies, are mourning the passing of someone who was our own ferryman who took us to the undiscovered shores of American and European art cinema. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a thoroughly uninteresting failure and the most damning demonstration yet of Stanley Kubrick’s inability to tell a story coherently and with a consistent point of view. He took his place among a handful of stylish and congenitally disputatious critics: Pauline Kael, Stanley Kauffmann, John Simon and Manny Farber. “We were so gloriously contentious, everyone bitching at everyone,” Mr. Sarris recalled in a 2009 interview with The New York Times. Sarris' first article, a controversial piece on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, appeared in the Voice on August 11, 1960. Business California Picnic on the Grass (Jean Renoir) 04. They Failed. I must be up to 40 viewings of Rio Bravo. They agreed on just a single point, that film was art worthy of sustained thought and argumentation. by Andrew Sarris. He was 27, which he described as “a dreadfully uncomfortable age for a middle-class cultural guerrilla.”, In 1960, this self-consciously bourgeois man persuaded the editors of the The Village Voice to let him review films. He’d mention a contemporary actress, who’d had a flop or two and say, blithely, ‘Oh, she’s finished.’ He told us the reason “Kael” (he never gave his female filmic Lex Luthor a first name) was ‘Always championing new trash, like De Palma, because she missed the real trash the first time around. And ended with a question. Trump now takes office on the strength of his demagoguery. He remembered sitting in a darkened theater at the age of 3 or 4 entranced by a movie based on a Jules Verne story. A younger brother, George Sarris, died at age 28 in a 1960 sky-diving accident. She delighted in lancing the auteurists as a wolf pack of nerdy and too-pale young men. He graduated from Columbia College in 1951 and served three years in the Army Signal Corps. We do the right thing, we’ll be able to pull into the 21st century with some kind of program. “His faults have been rationalized as virtues.” And Antonioni took such a grim and alienated turn that Mr. Sarris, who had admired him, referred to him as “Antoniennui.”, In 1966, at a screening of Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising,” Mr. Sarris noticed an attractive young woman, Ms. Haskell. Andrew Sarris, a critic for the Village Voice and the New York Observer, was a leading proponent of the auteur theory — that directors' work reflects their distinctive styles. Sarris is generally credited with popularizing the auteur theory in the United States and coining the term in his 1962 essay, "Notes on the Auteur Theory," which critics writing in Cahiers du Cinémahad inspired. When Mr. Sarris married Ms. Haskell, the couple invited Ms. Kael. Film criticism had reached a heady pitch amid the cultural upheavals of that time, and Mr. Sarris’s temperament fit that age like a glove on a fencer’s hand. And we invariably asked the Professor to tell us about it. An influential critic who wrote for The Village Voice among other publications, Sarris is credited with popularising the notion of auteur theory in America. By Michael Powell. Anyone who read Andrew Sarris’s movie reviews was, in a way, a student of his. The Theory said, in essence, that no matter who was working on a film — the most famous DP, charismatic movie star, producer or Foley artist, whose gunshot sounds were unmistakable — it was The Director’s Voice (or was that fingerprints?) He argued that more than a few of Hollywood’s own belonged in the pantheon — including Orson Welles, John Ford, Howard Hawks and Sam Fuller, not to mention a British director whom purists had dismissed as a mere “commercial” filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock — and he championed them. What comes to mind, first of all, was that he was always late. I watched him as he walked off and disappeared around the corner. We are richer for it. He attended John Adams High School in Queens, his time there overlapping for a year or two with the newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin’s. Largely because of him, many moviegoers today think of films in terms of their directors. This was understandable. “Afterward he took me out for a sundae at Howard Johnson.”. By the time this review appears in print, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange may have won the best movie award from both the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, two eminently judicial groups to which your humble reviewer belongs. He was married to Molly Haskell. But he was restless. For his film criticism. I actually think I’m physically ill.” Or, “I apologize for not being here on time. He wandered over. “I’m sorry I’m late,” said Professor Sarris, in a world-class snit one morning, that high, feathery, sardonic voice of his, barely containing his anger. Everybody from the cabbie to the cop has a lot to say. Professor Sarris, waited patiently for his money to come out. His pithy eloquence was expressed not only in the pages of the papers he wrote for but in several books debunking reputations and encouraging critical reappraisal. Mr. Sarris returned the favor, slashing at her as an undisciplined hedonist. “I prefer to think of people I missed the boat on,” he said. Sarris was the critic at The Village Voice from 1960 to 1989, at a time when the Internet was still just a series of tubes in the mind of Al Gore. And then, it was just like one of those grubby Film Noir or detective stories he made middlebrow America finally take seriously. In addition to being one of the most incisive critics the movies have ever known, Sarris also served many years as an actual teacher. John Huston? He began to write for Film Culture, a cineaste outpost in the East Village. Read Andrew Sarris' Guardian Obituary He was film critic at Village Voice from 1940, and professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, An extremely important and influential critic in the US, especially regarding auteur theory, later rivalled by Pauline Kael. We do the show and we wear the costumes our audience expect us to.”. His wife, the film critic Molly Haskell, said the cause was complications of an infection developed after a fall. you were supposed to pay attention to. If Ms. Kael more often won points as the high stylist, Mr. Sarris was cerebral and analytic, interested always in the totality of a film’s effect on its audience and in the sweep of a director’s career. They married in 1969. John Ford’s men, for instance, all-too-casually rewrote history to make cowards and martinets great men. He disappeared from us – suddenly – in 1984, struck down by an unholy, unnamed disease that nearly killed him, rendered him paralyzed, a full-blown amnesiac and nearly ground his beloved wife, film critic Molly Haskell, into dust. Read Movie and TV reviews from Andrew Sarris on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics reviews are aggregated to tally a Certified Fresh, Fresh or Rotten Tomatometer score. In 1960, The Village Voice, the Greenwich Village weekly that had established itself as the house organ for New York’s boho intelligentsia, assigned a film review to an underemployed 31-year-old son of Greek immigrants.The movie was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho; the freelancer, Andrew Sarris.“Hitchcock is the most daring avant-garde filmmaker in America today,” Sarris wrote. The Village Voice will resume in digital format in January 2021 and be published in print quarterly with plans to increase in frequency. Andrew Sarris. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) 03. He turned us all on, either to directors we hadn’t yet heard of, or films of theirs we didn’t even know existed. But uniformed cops stood by, smiling — for the maraud­ers were fellow cops, thousands of them”. Share: Twitter Facebook Email. I did get to see Professor Sarris one more time. 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