Andrew Sarris, One of the Defining American Film Critics, Has Died at 83

To the public at large, the director wasn't always the person most responsible for a film. That was the producer; the director was just someone who turned up and made sure actors hit their marks. But in the '50s, writers at French film magazine Cahiers du Cinma (including future French New Wave directors Franois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Chabrol) expanded on notions developed in the '40s that said a ...

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