Richard Roud

RICHARD ROUD (1929-89) was an American writer on film and co-founder and latterly Director of the New York Film Festival. In the 1950s, Roud was the London Correspondent of Cahiers du cin�ma, and from 1963 to 1969, Chief Film Critic for the Guardian newspaper. His books include Cinema: A Critical Dictionary - The Major Film-Makers (two volumes, 1980), A Passion for Film: Henri Langlois and the Cin�math�que Fran�aise (1983), and Jean-Marie Straub (1972), also in the Cinema One series....See more

RICHARD ROUD (1929-89) was an American writer on film and co-founder and latterly Director of the New York Film Festival. In the 1950s, Roud was the London Correspondent of Cahiers du cin�ma, and from 1963 to 1969, Chief Film Critic for the Guardian newspaper. His books include Cinema: A Critical Dictionary - The Major Film-Makers (two volumes, 1980), A Passion for Film: Henri Langlois and the Cin�math�que Fran�aise (1983), and Jean-Marie Straub (1972), also in the Cinema One series. MICHAEL TEMPLE is Reader in Film and Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His publications include, as co-editor, Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006); The French Cinema Book (2004), and For Ever Godard (2004) and, as author, Jean Vigo (2005). See less