The American Cinema

An auteur per week, as guided by Andrew Sarris’s legendary text on film.

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#77. Fred Zinnemann. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Vienna, Austria, 1907. Died, London, UK, 1997.

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#76. William Wyler. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire, 1902. Died, California, USA, 1981.

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#75. Billy Wilder. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1906. Died, California, USA, 2002.

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#74. William Wellman. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Massachusetts, USA, 1896. Died, California, USA, 1975.

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#73. Carol Reed. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, London, UK, 1906. Died, London, UK, 1976.

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#72. Lewis Milestone. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, 1895. Died, California, USA, 1980.

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#71. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Pennsylvania, USA, 1909. Died, New York, USA, 1993.

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#70. Rouben Mamoulian. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Tiflis, Russian Empire, 1897. Died, California, USA, 1987.

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#69. David Lean. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born,
Croydon, UK, 1908. Died, London , UK, 1991.

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#68. Elia Kazan. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born,
Constantinople, 1909. Ottoman Empire. Died, New York, USA, 2003.

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#67. John Huston. Less Than Meets The Eye categorised Director. Born, Missouri, USA, 1906. Died, Rhode Island, USA, 1987.

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Andrew Sarris on the directors of “Less Than Meets The Eye”.

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The American Cinema, Part V. Less Than Meets The Eye.

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#66. Luchino Visconti. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Milan, Italy, 1906. Died, Rome, Italy, 1976.

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#65. Francois Truffaut. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Paris, France, 1932. Died, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1984.

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#64. Roberto Rossellini. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Rome, Italy, 1906. Died, Rome, Italy, 1977.

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#63. Roman Polanski. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Paris, France, 1933. Died, N/A.

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#62. Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, 1885. Died, Vienna, Austria, 1967.

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#61. Sergei Eisenstein. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Riga, Latvia, 1898. Died, Moscow, Russia, 1950.

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#60. René Clément. Fringe Benefits categorised Director. Born, Bordeaux, France, 1913. Died, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1996.