The Man Who Loved Movies - And Women

               
           Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell

The Man Who Loved Movies (and Women) Andrew Sarris Honored by MoMA, American Academy of Arts & Letters

By Penelope Andrew

'...In 1995, in the journal Film History, Andrew penned "Notes of an Accidental Auteurist." It contains a powerful statement on how much he cared about the portrayals of women on film. "I prefer Michael Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to Welles's Citizen Kane. Prefer Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons to Kane. Why? The respective treatments of women."...'

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Penelope Andrew writes for The Huffington Post, Bright Lights Film Journal, WestView News, Arts Express Syndicate and Critical Women on Film. Penny Andrew is a member of The Women Film Critics Circle.