Tom Milne

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Tom Milne
Born(1926-04-02)2 April 1926
Malacca, Malaya
Died14 December 2005(2005-12-14) (aged 79)
Aberdeen, Scotland
OccupationFilm critic

Tom Milne (2 April 1926 – 14 December 2005) was a British film critic.[1][2]

After war service, he studied English and French at Aberdeen University and later at the Sorbonne. Interested in the theatre too, he wrote for the magazine Encore,[2] which existed for a decade (1954 to 1965).

Milne wrote for

Monthly Film Bulletin, The Observer and The Times during his career. During the 1960s he was associate editor of Sight & Sound and editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin. His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey (1968) and Rouben Mamoulian (1969) in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director.[3][4] He also wrote a short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972).[5][6]

In addition, Tom Milne oversaw the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings.

Time Out Film Guide, which went through nineteen editions from 1989 through 2010.[7][8]

An archive of over 3000 novels that were the personal collection of Tom Milne is held at Lancaster University Library https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections-and-archives/#tom-milne-collection-550558-1

References

  1. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (February 2006). "Tom Milne, 1926—2005". Sight & Sound.
  2. ^ a b c "Memories of Tom Milne". Masters of Cinema. Archived from the original on 10 August 2010. See also "Memories of Tom Milne".
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