Film critic for Film Culture in the 19502-1960s, The Village Voice 1960-1989, and The New York Observer (current). His books include Confessions of a Cultist: On the Cinema 1955-1969 and Interviews with Film Directors (1967). Sarris refined the auteur theory of film analysis first formulated by François Truffaut with his book The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 - a furthering of (Sarris') essay Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962. Sort of an imbecile.