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David Sterritt

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Biography:

David Sterritt has been Film Critic of The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper, for more than 30 years. As a syndicated writer for the Monitor News Service he has contributed articles on film, theater, and music to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other periodicals. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Film Comment, Cineaste, Variety, American Film, Stagebill, down beat, and other publications. His reviews were heard for many years on Monitor Radio, carried by Public Radio International, and he is a former film critic for All Things Considered on National Public Radio. Television appearances include ABC?s Nightline, the CBS Morning News, PBS?s Cinema, the Discovery Channel?s World Monitor, and programs on CNN, MSNBC, the Fox News Channel, MSG Metro, and CNBC. He is Professor of Theater and Film at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University and a member of the Film Studies Faculty at Columbia University, and he has taught at New York University and the City University of New York. His collected Monitor film criticism is housed by invitation in the Harvard Film Archive at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University. He served for five years on the Selection Committee of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, and is Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, as well as a member of the National Society of Film Critics and other professional organizations. He lectures frequently at museums, universities, film festivals, libraries, cinema clubs, etc. His book "The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible" was published last year by Cambridge University Press, which published his book "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" in 1993. He is also the author of "Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1998) and the editor of "Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews" and "Robert Altman: Interviews," both from University Press of Mississippi. Other recent publications include "From Psychology to Spirit" in the anthology "Jean-Luc Godard?s Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film" from Southern Illinois University Press; "Notes" in the anthology "Meredith Monk" from The Johns Hopkins University Press; essays in the Hitchcock Annual, the Austrian film magazine Blimp, the Columbia University magazine 21st C, the Long Island University journal Ventures in Research, the Canadian journal Mosaic, and (forthcoming) the American journals Wide Angle and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, as well as program essays for the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. He is currently coediting "Terry Gilliam: Interviews"

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New York, NY

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http://www.filmscouts.com/rooms95/press

Reviews

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% “Uncharacteristically for a Star Wars saga, [Luke and Vader's confrontation] is chilling psychologically as well as physically. For the rest, though, The Empire Strikes Back is good-natured hokum. ” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “We've come full circle. George Lucas, one of Hollywood's current boy wonders, has launched space opera to exhilarating new heights in a speed-of-light epic called Star Wars.” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 36% “The story gets stickier by the minute, and there are an awful lot of minutes as Sheila drags on interminably.” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 9, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% 2/4 “Bret Easton Ellis's novel is a manic blend of incisive satire and repellent violence. Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner reduce it to a standard-issue slasher movie.” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% “The writer has provided pithy parts for good actors.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 27, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 23% “It all comes down to Mr. B's weary script (just filler between endless musical numbers) and tired direction.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) 86% “The cast is marvelous.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% “"Tommy" is inspiring in its energy, its refusal to hesitate... startling in its purely visual quality.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 56% “It's slick, inventive, and sometimes visually electrifying. ” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 47% “Alan Arkin is at his self-effacing best.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 11, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 47% “We are held at arm's length by shallow dialogue, predictable plot twists, overblown situations.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 61% “It never flies very high but always keeps its wings at least a smidgin above the treetops.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “The resulting movie brims with the bad and the beautiful, careens dazzling among comedy, drama, melodrama, farce, politics, tragedy and even magic tricks. Without ever dropping the beat of that music, music, music which is the very pulse of Nashville.” – Christian Science Monitor Feb 27, 2025 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a bruising film -- boisterous, unflinching, sometimes ugly. Yet it is tempered with a quiet humanity, a genuine regard for people and their impossible predicaments.” – Christian Science Monitor Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “A giant of a movie, standing so tall that its delicate legs must inevitably shake a little. Despite its shortcomings, it is a breathtaking and mysterious achievement that will likely see no direct competition for years to come. ” – Christian Science Monitor Feb 25, 2025 Full Review The Song Remains the Same (1976) 39% “Some of the fantasies show vague lapses of taste... most of the going is harmless enough to the mind and eyes -- though your eardrums may suffer.” – Christian Science Monitor Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% “"Shampoo" is not nearly so thoughtful as its dirgelike pace and glib philosophizing would like you to believe.” – Christian Science Monitor Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% “Ragged performances and overwritten dialogue weaken some scenes, and much of the evil behavior is so obsessively bleak that it seems more tortured than revealing. Still, at times there are vivid glimpses of [David Lynch's] visionary talent.” – Christian Science Monitor Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “Coppola goes for brooding contemplation instead of character analysis or story resolution. The result is a thoughtful but unnecessarily narrow work. Technically, however, Apocalypse Now is an extraordinary achievement.” – Christian Science Monitor Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% “Jaws isn't personal, it's slick as sharkskin. It is the work of a first-rate craftsman, however: harrowing, sometimes nasty to look at, but rousingly adventurous. ” – Christian Science Monitor Jul 2, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% “In sum, Bingo Long moves from the sad to the preposterous, keeping up a roistering batting average in both categories despite some seventh-inning stretches of dullness and enough ball-park language to merit a PG rating.” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “Pacino works furiously... but his efforts fail under the onslaught of bad jokes and the sheer passage of time... ” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 7, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 5/5 “The Shawshank Redemption has a clever plot, conveyed through a well-crafted screenplay that loses momentum only when twists and turns stretch it... What gives the picture most of its zest and poignancy, however, is the excellence of its lead performances.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “In space, no one can hear you ask for your money back.” – Christian Science Monitor Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% 3/4 “The movie makes up in sincerity and goodwill what it lacks in originality and style.” – Christian Science Monitor Nov 8, 2023 Full Review
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