10 Facts About Stanley Kauffmann

Stanley Kauffmann was an American writer, editor, and critic of film and theater.

Stanley Kauffmann had one brief break in his New Republic tenure, when he served as the drama critic for The New York Times for eight months in 1966.

Stanley Kauffmann worked as an acquisitions editor at Ballantine Books in 1953, where he acquired the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Stanley Kauffmann inspired and influenced younger film and cultural critics such as Roger Ebert and David Denby.

Stanley Kauffmann was a professor of English, Drama, and Film at City University of New York and taught at the Yale School of Drama.

Stanley Kauffmann was featured in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism where he was shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who grasped that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness".

Stanley Kauffmann is noted for his dissenting opinions on otherwise critically acclaimed films, giving negative reviews for Brazil, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby, Gone with the Wind, Becket and 2001: A Space Odyssey, films that were heavily praised by other notable critics.

Stanley Kauffmann attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and New York University, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1935, and he was an actor and stage manager with NYU's 1920s-30s revival of the Washington Square Players.

Stanley Kauffmann married Laura Cohen in 1943, and they remained together until Cohen's death in 2012.

Stanley Kauffmann died of pneumonia at St Luke's Hospital in Manhattan on October 9,2013, at age 97.