David Sterritt is a film critic, author, and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the film critic for the Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater, and music.
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