Andrew Sarris, 1928 - 2012

One of American film criticism's most important figures has passed away.
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"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 morning in Manhattan. He was 83." —The New York Times

 

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