Stanley Kauffmann Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Stanley Kauffmann was born on April 24, 1916 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for his work on For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009), The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003) and The Tramp and the Dictator (2002). He was married to Laura Cohen. He died on October 9, 2013 in New York City.
[re his approach to film criticism]... a view of film as a descendant of the theater and literature, certainly sui generis but not without ancestors or cousin, to be judged by its own unique standards which are yet analogous to those of other arts: a view that is pluralistic, aesthetic but not anti-science, contemporary but not unhistorical, and humanistic.
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[re Marlon Brando's first Broadway appearance] He was wonderful. He had a way of falling [after being hit] that made you know that he'd thought about how to do it a different way from the way every other actor had ever done it, and yet his fall fit into what was going on. It wasn't merely freakish.
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[on _Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)_] This picture was made particularly for males, who carry a portable shrine with them of their adolescence, a chalice-of-self that was better then, before the world's affairs, or - in a complex way - sex intruded.
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Fact
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He wrote novels and worked as an editor at Knopf. In the late 1950s he began writing film reviews, and sent one to The New Republic magazine, which offered him a permanent job. He was the film critic for The New Republic for 55 years, with a break in 1966, when he was briefly a theater critic for The New York Times.
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At NYU, he began writing dozens of one-act plays. He also became an actor and stage manager with the Washington Square Players, a repertory company affiliated with the university (not to be confused with the group that later became the Theater Guild). The company performed mostly Shakespeare and Shaw. Internal disputes and the outbreak of WWII led to the company's demise.
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His father was a dentist. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. He attended New York University, where he studied drama, planning to become an actor. He received a bachelor's degree in 1935.
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In 1944 the children's play he wrote, entitled "Bobino,", was produced at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, before it moved on to Broadway. It has become notable because it featured a newcomer named Marlon Brando in his very first professional performance, playing a security guard.
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Film critic.
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
Video documentary short image provider
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Reputations
1999
TV Series documentary with thanks to - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
Documentary
Himself
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Charlie Rose
1998
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Camera Three
1965
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
Video documentary short
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1998
Silver Medallion Award
Telluride Film Festival, US
Known for movies
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009) as Himself
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003) as Art Department
$400,000
