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"WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabeth Taylor and still another directorial coup for Mike Nichols.

If Samuel Fuller was an "authentic American primitive," as Andrew Sarris wrote, that may explain why he caught the eye of the French New Wave directors.

Today's Birthdays: Author Dick Francis is 89. Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk is 87.

Brooklyn-born film critic Andrew Sarris rose to prominence during his long tenure with THE VILLAGE VOICE as America's leading proponent of the auteur theory of film analysis.

Andrew Sarris is among the writers featured in Gerald Peary's documentary about film criticism.

Gerald Peary has spent a lifetime watching movies. Now he's made one - about people who watch movies.

New York City's Museum of Modern Art is launching a two-year film series called "An Auteurist History of Film" on Sept.

For the week of Sunday, July 12, through Saturday, July 18. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

The New York Times: "The aging duelist sits in his Upper East Side apartment and contemplates all that is past, the polemics and late-night arguments and denunciations in one magazine or another.

His layoff, "forced retirement" or move to freelance critic status was reported in early June.

THE aging duelist sits in his Upper East Side apartment and contemplates all that is past, the polemics and late-night arguments and denunciations in one magazine or another.

Andrew Sarris -- dean of American film critics, leading proponent of the auteur theory in America, author of the essential The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 , senior critic of the Village Voice for decades, co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics -- has reportedly been let go by cut from the staff of The New York ...

Dave Kehr spoke to Molly Haskell and reports that Andrew Sarris is planning on continuing to freelance for The New York Observer.

A number of websites, including Movie City News and Sean P. Means's "Movie Cricket" blog in the Salt Lake Tribune , have been reporting that Andrew Sarris has been fired from the New York Observer.A Not true, says Molly Haskell.A Andrew, along with a dozen other writers at the rapidly sinking weekly, was taken off staff on Monday, but he will ...

Newark Star-Ledger Stephen Whitty acknowledges there's a logic to the New York Observer's decision to lay off Andrew Sarris -- does the weekly really need three film reviewers? -- but what's sad is that Sarris "was inarguably the most intellectual of the three, with a fine-tuned aesthetic sense and an enviable grasp of cinema history.

And as predicted, McGeveran cut a third of the 30 to 40 person edit team, including managing editor Jesse Wegman, executive editor Peter Stevenson; national correspondent Joe Conason; movie reviewer Andrew Sarris; editors Damian Da Costa, Matt Haber, Chris Shott and John Vorwald; reporters Spencer Morgan and Doree Shafir, writer George Gurley and ...