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Molly Haskell
 EDUCATION: Graduate of Sweet Briar College, Va. (Phi Beta Kappa; Highest Honors in English)
Further studies at the University of London and the Sorbonne
FIRST N.Y.C. EMPLOYMENT: The French Film Office, where she wrote and edited a bulletin and newsletter on French films
AUTHOR: From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies
(hard cover: Holt, Rinehart & Winston Inc., 1973; paperback:
Penguin, 1974); reissued in updated version by University of Chicago
Press in 1987
The Introduction to Women Photograph Men (William Morrow, 1977)
Love and Other Infectious Diseases, a Memoir (William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1990; paperback, Citadel Press, 1992)
Amphibians, a one-act play, the Women's Project, 1990; reading, EST Oktoberfest, 1992; Workshop Production, Clark
Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1993.
Holding My Own in No-Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists, Oxford University Press, January, 1997
CRITICISM: 1970-1988, Member of New York
Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics; began
reviewing in 1966 as theatre critic for The Village Voice; was subsequently staff film critic for The Voice and Viva; New York Magazine; and Vogue
Wrote monthly columns for the Guardian UK and the New York Observer. Articles and essays have appeared in: The New York Times (and New York Times Book Review), Esquire, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Glamour, Film Comment, Town and Country,The New Leader, Mademoiselle, Mirabella
Lectures on film at numerous universities; was Associate Professor at
Barnard, Fall-Winter 1989, ("Writing on Film"); and Adjunct Professor
of Film, Columbia University, 1991-1995; taught Non-fiction Writers
Workshop, Marymount Manhattan, 2001; Sarah Lawrence Graduate Writing
Program, 2004.
Has served on the selection
committee of the New York Film Festival, as a juror at the Sundance
Film Festival and was for seven years the Artistic Director of the
Sarasota French Film Festival
FILMS MADE: A short documentary on sculpture by women in New York and an interview with Louise Nevelson, for WNET-TV, New York
MEDIA: Is serving as co-host, with
Robert Osborne,on Turner Classic Movies Essentials 2006-2007;
Appearances on the Today Show, the Tomorrow Show, the Mike Douglas
Show, CBS Morning News, MSNBC, AMC and Turner Classics documentaries
Appeared regularly as a reviewer on Special Edition for Public Television
Served as regular reviewer on All Things Considered for National Public Radio
AWARDS: Resident, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, 1987;
National Board of Review for Contributions to Film Criticism, 1989;
Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, 1989; Distinguished
Alumna Award, Sweet Briar College, 1994; member New York Institute for
the
Humanities and the Century Club; Council of the Authors Guild
Married Andrew Sarris on May 31, 1969
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