Andrew Sarris Articles

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman on the poster of Michael Curtiz's Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part VII – Comparisons to Other Great Cinema Classics Film critic Andrew Sarris claimed that Casablanca was, "the most decisive exception to the auteur theory," but he was wrong — and wrong for several reasons. First, auteur theory generally applies toward films or filmmakers that are great, and while Casablanca has been [...]

Frank Lloyd, Henry King, John Ford, Frank Borzage Among them, these four filmmakers share eight Oscar wins and four additional nominations Frank Lloyd Intro II First of all, why Frank Lloyd? An obvious response might be "why not?" While large, trade publishers are suffering from diminishing sales, it seems that "small" publishers and similar entities, including the "vanity press" and the self-publishing brigade, are expanding [...]