| Tom Milne | |
| Birth Date: | 2 April 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Malacca, Malaya |
| Death Place: | Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Film critic |
Tom Milne (2 April 1926 - 14 December 2005) was a British film critic.[1] [2]
After war service, he studied English and French at Aberdeen University and later at the Sorbonne. Interested in the theatre too, he wrote for the magazine Encore,[2] which existed for a decade (1954 to 1965).
Milne wrote for Sight & Sound, the Monthly Film Bulletin, The Observer and The Times during his career. During the 1960s he was associate editor of Sight & Sound and editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin. His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey (1968) and Rouben Mamoulian (1969) in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director.[3] [4] He also wrote a short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972).[5] [6]
In addition, Tom Milne oversaw the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings.[2] He was the founding editor of the Time Out Film Guide, which went through nineteen editions from 1989 through 2010.[7] [8]
An archive of over 3000 novels that were the personal collection of Tom Milne is held at Lancaster University Library https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections-and-archives/#tom-milne-collection-550558-1