She is a writer, known for Billy Baxter Presents Diary of the Cannes Film. As a result, we are the more fascinated with Spielberg and the more encouraged by the principle of essential and enlightening film commentary. Molly Haskell was born on 29 September 1939 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. We know the Spielberg films, or we think we do, until they come under the cool yet warming gaze of Ms. The result is as rich and intriguing as the meeting of Elliott and E.T. “Steven Spielberg and Molly Haskell-the great producer-director of modern film and one of the most intelligent and sensitive film writers we have ever had. The book vibrates with a productive tension between the writer and her subject.”-Morris Dickstein, author of Dancing in the Dark “This is a wonderful book, at once personal and critical, eloquent and vivacious.
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But what a spectacular match it proves to be! Spielberg is given his proper due, and Haskell outdoes herself.”-Phillip Lopate, author of American Movie Critics “Molly Haskell, one of our most essential authorities on the movies, has written a fascinating, witty, acutely discerning book about a subject that would seem, at first glance, odd. Her books include From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies (1973 revised and reissued in 1989) a memoir, Love and Other Infectious Diseases and, in 1997, a collection of essays and interviews, Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Films and Feminists and Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited, which was part of Yale University Press's American Icon series. She was married for 43 years to the film critic Andrew Sarris who died in 2012. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010 and was featured in the Library of America's 2006 "American Movie Critics" edited by Philip Lopate.
She has served as Artistic Director of the Sarasota French Film Festival, on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival, as associate Professor of Film at Barnard and as Adjunct Professor of Film at Columbia University. She has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian UK, Esquire, The Nation, Town and Country, The New York Observer and The New York Review of Books. She then went to The Village Voice, first as a theater critic, then as a movie reviewer and from there to New York Magazine and Vogue. She worked at the French Film Office in the Sixties, writing a newsletter about French films for the New York press and interpreting when directors came to America (this was the height of the Nouvelle Vague) for the opening of their films. MOLLY HASKELL, author and critic, grew up in Richmond, Va., went to Sweet Briar College, the University of London and the Sorbonne before settling in New York.
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