Andrew Sarris

Roger Ebert: Why There Can Never Be Another

Celebrating the Discernment of the Late Andrew Sarris

Exceptional Americanism

2001: A Space Odyssey

Andrew Sarris: A Teacher, a Critic, and Impossible to Forget

Anyone who read Andrew Sarris's movie reviews was, in a way, a student of his. In addition to being one of the most incisive critics the movies have ever known, Sarris also served many years as an actual teacher. Here, one of his former students (and a critic in his own right) shares his memories of ... More >>

Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012: Highlights From His Village Voice Years

We're very saddened to hear about the death of film critic Andrew Sarris at the age of 83. He spent some of his best years tilting with Pauline Kael here at the Voice, and while we're putting together an actual obit, we wanted to highlight some of the best things he did at this newspaper. A few yea ... More >>

The Limits of Free Love in Deep End

You Cannot Send Shit Through the Internet, and Other Life Lessons from Critic Dave Kehr

Watergate Proving that Norman Mailer's Paranoia Was Prescient

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 12, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 28 Mailer's 5th Estate: Who's paranoid now? by Frank Crowther "Paranoia is the most useful or the most destructive faculty of the human spirit. One never knows when it's devoted to you or your destruction ... More >>

Andrew Sarris: Heteros Have Problems Too

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 4, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 5 Heteros have problems too By Andrew Sarris I am 42, going on 43, and I have never had a homosexual experience. Thus, if only by the process of elimination (and an ecstatically happy marriage), I must q ... More >>

Best Films of 1970!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 21, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 3 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris The time has not only come, it is probably long past, to survey the moviegoing year of 1970 (itself either the last year of the '60s or the first year of the '70s), to p ... More >>

Great Cinema, For a Song, in Guy and Madeline and Ne change rien

'Five Easy Pieces' Highlights the 1970 New York Film Fest

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 10, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 37 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris September is upon us and with it the (Eighth) New York Film Festival of which I have been a part since 1966. Any institution that lasts eight years in this cruel town ... More >>

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

The Joy of Despair: "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 1, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 1 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris "THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?" has finally come to the screen 34 years after the publication of Horace McCoy's classic wouldn't-that-make-a-wonderful-movie novel. I read ... More >>

'Easy Rider': From Soap Opera to Dope Opera

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 14, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 44 From Soap Opera to Dope Opera by Andrew Sarris A Hollywood wag once defined a "woman's picture" as the kind of movie in which a wife commits adultery for most of the running time and then before the fi ... More >>

'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadway. Was it the insolently blunt title? Hitchcock's hilarious first-person trailer ("and here we ha ... More >>

Antonioni's Lessons Learned in Le Amiche

Jane Fonda, the ideal Barbarella

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 17, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 1 Films by Andrew Sarris "BARBARELLA" is not nearly the disaster it had every intention of being. Somehow its comic strip conceits and Playboy-Bunny-in-Disneyland decor manage to sustain themselves for 1 ... More >>

The Fourth Annual Village Voice Readers' Film Poll -- The Best Films of 1967!

"We rob banks."​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>

LA, NY Film Critics Launch Award Season, Favor Hurt Locker

​What a relief -- the 2009 movie awards are rolling out, drawing our attention away from tedious realities and toward tinsel dreams of Oscar Night. The New York Film Critics Circle has just stepped up with The Hurt Locker for Best Picture and Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow); George Clooney (Up ... More >>

Clip Job: The Second Annual Village Voice Film Poll (Bonus: The First Poll, Too!)

Julie Christie in 'Darling'​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 17 Films By Andrew Sarris The Second Annual Village Voice Readers' 10-best poll, held this year in conjunction with my Films in Focus program on WBAI, received entries from a ... More >>

'1962: New York Film Critics Circle' at BAMcinématek

Sure, there were missiles in Cuba. But what about the film critics' awards?

This Week in the Voice

​James Lieber's January "What Cooked the World's Economy?" which explained the financial meltdown we still suffer from, is one of our most-read and -emailed stories. Now the awesome follow-up: "We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?" Lieber fi ... More >>

Vintage Voice: Read Our Old Stories at Google!

​Google has finally uploaded our back issues, which stretch all the way back to our debut on October 26, 1955, online. (It cost five cents then; it costs you nothing now. Vive le Internet!) Interestingly, Google's news blog announcement links to Lester Bangs' classic Iggy story, "Blowtorch in ... More >>

Clip Job: Best Films of 1963

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 26, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 10Best Films of 1963PETER BOGDANOVICH -- The following are the best new movies I saw this year, listed in the order in which they were seen: "The Elusive Corporal," "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," "The Trial," " ... More >>

Clip Job: Village Paper Hates Village Film!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 18, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 39'Greenwich Village Story'By Andrew Sarris"Greenwich Village Story" (at the Victoria and 55th Street Playhouse) is so basically stupid in its conception that any detailed analysis would be needlessly sadistic. The t ... More >>

Clip Job: Piling on the Times Critic for 'Cleopatra'

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 27, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 36'Cleo' & Crowther, cont.Dear Sir:Andrew Sarris is to be commended for the courage and insight he displayed (VV, June 20) in smashing the idol of King Crowther, the sphinx of the nil. Almost all of us who attend ... More >>

Mike Leigh's Optimistic Heroine in Happy-Go-Lucky Might Just Convince You to Cheer Up; Lola Montès Still Won't

Female persuasion

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni

Defending Manhattan

Woody's valentine to our fair city should finally be embraced for what it is: fantasy

Girl with a Diamond Earring

With dazzle to spare, all that glitters isn't golden in Ophuls's Madame De . . .

Lights! Camera! Chaos!

Whitney's series lacks focus; Anthology's got it

Beyond Penguins

One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks

Film

Reader: When's the New York Pot Party?

Letters

1960

1987

Get Reel

A teenage cineaste falls in love with the Voice's film pages

A History of Cronenberg

Another Ernst Lubitsch Classic

Epic Proportions

A Space Odyssey

Story of a Woman

Isabelle Huppert's Pressure Points

Blood Simple

Camera Obscura

••• Tracking Down Film Studies’ Fall Guy

The Energy Box

Vincent Canby, 1924–2000

Candor and Cool

The Stunt Men

Low and Behold