Tom Milne
Tom Milne (born April 2, 1926 in Malacca , Malaysia , † December 14, 2005 in Aberdeen , Scotland ) was a British theater and film critic , author and translator .
Life
Tom Milne was born in 1926 in Malacca, Malaysia, the youngest child of a British family. He had two older sisters, Elma and Eileen, who were also born in Malaysia. At the age of 9 he was sent to Aberdeen , where he attended Angusfield Preparatory School. He later studied at Trinity College Glenalmond . During the Second World War he served as a meteorologist with the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy . From 1945 he served in New Guinea .
At the end of the war, Milne returned to Aberdeen. He later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and taught in a French lyceum . After a while he moved to London and worked in a second-hand bookshop , wrote theater reviews for the magazines Theater Workshop and Encore and translated books from French into English.
Milne was increasingly critical of film and joined the British Film Institute (BFI) in the 1960s , where he served as Associate Editor of Sight & Sound and Editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin . After leaving the BFI, Milne wrote as a freelance film critic for the Times , the Financial Times, and the Observer . He also edited the first three editions of the annual film compendium Time Out Film Guide and contributed to the Oxford Companion to the Theater.
Milne also translated the subtitles for 391 French films into English. He continued this work into old age.
In 1993 he largely withdrew into private life and has since lived with his sister Eileen in Aberdeen. He died there in December 2005 at the age of 79.
Fonts
- Losey on Losey . (book-length interview with Joseph Losey ), Doubleday, 1968.
- Mamoulian . Thames and Hudson, 1969, ISBN 0-500-48012-5 .
- The Cinema of Carl Dreyer . AS Barnes, 1971, ISBN 0-498-07711-X .
- with Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies: The Complete Film Reference . Hamlyn, 1986, ISBN 0-06-055050-3 .
Translations
- Jean-Luc Godard : Godard On Godard . DaCapo Press, 1986, ISBN 0-306-80259-7 .
- Bernard Eisenschitz: Nicholas Ray : An American Journey . Faber & Faber, 1996, ISBN 0-571-17830-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Memories of Tom Milne ( Memento from August 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at mastersofcinema.org, accessed on August 11, 2016.
- ↑ a b Tom Milne, 1926–2005 at jonathanrosenbaum.net, accessed on August 11, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Milne, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theater critic, film critic, author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malacca , Malaysia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 2005 |
| Place of death | Aberdeen , Scotland , United Kingdom |