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- Andrew Sarris was born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Billy Baxter Presents Diary of the Cannes Film Festival with Rex Reed (1980). He was married to Molly Haskell. He died on June 20, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseMolly Haskell(May 31, 1969 - June 20, 2012) (his death)
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 37th Venice International Film Festival in 1980.
- Film critic, the "Village Voice" and the "New York Observer".
- Film historian and author.
- He became, as he grew older, increasingly concerned with the humanist content of films over technical excellence, eventually coming to believe, for instance, that La splendeur des Amberson (1942) is a better Orson Welles film than Citizen Kane (1941), and naming La garçonnière (1960) as the best film of 1960 over Psychose (1960), which he had initially nominated in that category.
- Husband of fellow film critic Molly Haskell, each, at one time, the film critic at The Village Voice.
- [on Cecil B. DeMille] He remained true to the literary tradition of [James Fenimore Cooper's] "Leatherstocking Tales" and to the dramatic conventions of David Belasco.
- [on George Cukor] When a director has provided polished, tasteful entertainments of a high order consistently over a period of 30 years, it is clear that said director is much more than a mere entertainer.
- The obligatory scene in most [Frank Capra] films is the confession of folly in the most public manner possible.
- [on Raquel Welch] I still don't believe that Raquel Welch really exists. She has been manufactured by the media merely to preserve the sexless plasticity of sex objects for the masses.
- [on Jacques Tati] Perhaps he is simply another sketch talent hopelessly stretched out of shape by the relentless pull through time and space of the feature film.
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