* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

It is often referred to as Chaplin's finest accomplishment, and film critic James Agee believed the closing scene to be " the greatest piece of acting and the highest moment in movies ".

There was a vast amount of publicity around the film, with a critic for the New York Times calling it " the most eagerly awaited picture of the year ", and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era.

The critic Michael Medved characterized examples of the " so bad it's good " class of low-budget cult film through books such as The Golden Turkey Awards.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.

The American film critic Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as " a factual film which is dramatic.

Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.

A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, is his great-nephew.

The film is also featured on movie critic Leonard Maltin's list of the " 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century ", as well as Roger Ebert's " Great Movies " list.

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

" In film as in society at large, America ’ s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable ," said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s.

In the years after World War II, the French film critic and theorist André Bazin reacted against this approach to the cinema, arguing that film's essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality, not in its difference from reality.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.

* 1959 – Owen Gleiberman, American film critic

* 1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic

* 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer

Andrew Powell appeared as arranger of orchestra ( and often choirs ) on all albums except Vulture Culture, when he was composing the score of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke.

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

* 1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter

Other notable film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies ( Prison Break ), Mindy Kaling ( The Office ), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, Aisha Tyler of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie Britton of Spin City, The West Wing, and Friday Night Lights.

* 1969 – Andrew Bryniarski, American film actor

The Thermians transport Jason onto the Protector to negotiate with Sarris ( named after respected film critic Andrew Sarris ), a reptilian humanoid warlord waging a genocidal war against the Thermian people.

In these early films, Hawks established the prototypical " Hawksian Man ", which film critic Andrew Sarris described as " upheld by an instinctive professionalism.

The film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and has been called " the screwiest of the screwball comedies " by film critic Andrew Sarris.

Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 included Hawks in the " pantheon " of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

Influential film critic Andrew Sarris, in his 1968 ranking of directors, lists Whale as " lightly likable ".

He starred opposite Andrew McCarthy, another friend, in Mannequin, and in the film adaptation of Less Than Zero, where he played a drug dealer named Rip.

She is known for her appearance in the film Emily and subsequent relationship with Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, before his marriage to Sarah, Duchess of York.

The 1973 film of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar was met with some criticism by religious groups, but was well received.

Richardson also appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in the Julia Stiles vehicle The Prince and Me and as the ballet mistress Madame Giry in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom Of The Opera ( 2004 ).

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

* 1928 – Andrew Sarris, American film critic ( d. 2012 )

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 14, 1963 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

In 1969, critic Andrew Sarris commented that the success of the film had been largely due to " the inspired casting " of Leigh, and in 1998 wrote that " she lives in our minds and memories as a dynamic force rather than as a static presence.

The film was highly acclaimed with critics, such as Jay Cocks in Time, Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Archer Winsten in the New York Post all praising the film, as well as Eastwood's directorial skills and performance.

For others, such as U. S. film critic Andrew Sarris, it takes on mystical meanings related to the emotional tone of a film: " Dare I come out and say what I

* Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert ( ISBN 0-226-18200-2 ) – a collection of essays from his 40 years as a film critic, featuring interviews, profiles, essays, his initial reviews upon a film's release, as well as critical exchanges between the film critics Richard Corliss and Andrew Sarris

When it was first released, the film received a mixed response and garnered exceptionally harsh reviews from New York critics — Stanley Kauffmann (" the film bloats into sogginess ", The New Republic ); Pauline Kael (" amateurishly crude ", The New Yorker ); and Andrew Sarris — partly because of its directorial style and broad ethnic humor.

Although it is implied that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film critic Andrew Sarris notes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what allowed its production to commence:

Film critic and film historian Andrew Sarris briefly mentions Film in his book, The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968.

Sarris discusses Film in the context of his section on the film career of Buster Keaton, writing that: " Even Samuel Beckett contributed to the desecration of the Keaton mask by involving the actor of absurdity before its time in a dreary exercise called Film, the most pretentious title in all cinema.

Although in recent years the film's standing has not improved ( Christopher Durang called it " a soggy love story " in 1996 ), the film critic Andrew Sarris has notably defended the film.

Sarris admitted that it was his deceased brother's favorite film and much of the movie's appeal for him is nostalgic.