(from The New Republic,10/9/13.)
We are saddened to report that Stanley Kauffmann, our film critic of more than five decades, died early this morning at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York at age 97. He died of pneumonia, and peacefully. There will be no funeral. In accordance with Stanley’s request, The New Republic will host a memorial service in New York to celebrate him and his work at a date and time to be announced.
Tributes
"Stanley Kauffmann and I went way back together, without ever having met. The New Republic was the first magazine I subscribed to as a high school teen …" Click
to continue reading a tribute by James Wolcott.
“There was a masterpiece almost every week!” I heard him exclaim about ten years ago—a
little hyperbolically, perhaps, but it felt that way at the time. …" Click
to continue reading a tribute by David Denby.
"For decades, readers of The New Republic could not comprehend that their beloved and trusted Stanley Kauffmann was in his seventies, his eighties, and then his nineties. …" Click
to continue reading a tribute by New Republic film critic David Thomson
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