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In his brief entry on Allan Dwan in the “Expressive Esoterica” chapter of American Cinema, Andrew Sarris concluded, “there may be much more to say about Dwan.”
Andrew Sarris’s seminal book American Cinema: Directors and Directions (1968), the first serious attempt to create a taxonomy of filmmakers, praised Dwan but not enough to inspire even many auteurists to plumb his career.
The small 1% of Dwan’s opus that we’ve seen authorizes us to say this: Dwan is never more alive, precise and surprising than when he is telling a story. Take the Bogeaus period, no doubt his best.
Dec 10, 2012 · With the recent death of Andrew Sarris (October 31,1928 – June 20, 2012), we who lived cinema as a way of life in the sixties and seventies, are mourning the passing of someone who was our own ferryman who took us to the undiscovered shores of American and European art cinema.
Jan 31, 2023 · Sarris was the first to suggest that a director who works within the studio system and succeeds in imposing his personality on material written by others should be elevated. As a consequence, film societies mounted ambitious and complete retrospectives of Hollywood directors.
Dec 14, 2012 · Andrew Sarris, “who loved movies” (as Roger Ebert described him), was long considered the “ dean of American film critics.”. Reading the accounts and appreciations of him today, I was surprised to see how many people perpetuated the myth that Sarris and Pauline Kael were like the print era’s Siskel & Ebert who, instead of facing off ...
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The 27th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, the acclaimed festival of film restoration held in Bologna, Italy (29 June–6 July, 2013) allowed audiences the opportunity to re-evaluate the work of Canadian-born, American film pioneer, Allan Dwan (1885–1981).
