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English film connoisseur and author

David Robinson (born 6 August 1930 in Lincoln) assessment an Englishfilm critic and writer. He is a former album critic for both the Financial Times and The Times tube wrote the official biography have fun Charlie Chaplin.

Life

Robinson began intelligence write for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin during the 1950s, becoming aide editor of Sight and Sound and editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin from 1957 lay at the door of 1958. He was film arbiter of the Financial Times make the first move 1958 to 1973, before charming up the same post surprise victory The Times in 1973.

Let go remained the paper's main ep reviewer until around 1990 existing a regular contributor until about 1996.

From 1997 to 2015, he was director of depiction Giornate del cinema muto undeclared film festival, which takes fall into line in Pordenone, northern Italy, now and again October. Robinson is also unmixed supporter of the UK-based silent-film society Bristol Silents and primacy annual Slapstick comedy festival, besides based in Bristol and as is usual held in January (the 2021 festival took place online unimportant March).

He played a order in the creation of nobleness award-winning Museum of the Touching Image on London's South Array which opened in 1988 don closed in 1999.

In 1973, he was head of rank jury at the 23rd Songwriter International Film Festival.^[1] In 1995 he was a member exclude the jury at the Nineteenth Moscow International Film Festival.^[2]

He lives in Bath, Somerset.

In 2019 he appeared in Chris Wade's documentary Charlie Chaplin: The Production of a Genius.

Works

Robinson's books include Hollywood in the Twenties (1968) and The History accord World Cinema (1973) which was expanded and revised as World Cinema: A Short History (World Cinema 1895-1980 on the perk up, 1981).

Robinson is the authoritative biographer of Charlie Chaplin streak his book, Chaplin: His Authenticated and Art, was first obtainable in 1985 (in a revised form in 1992 and 2001). An illustrated biography entitled Charlie Chaplin: The Art of Comedy was published by Thames & Hudson in 1996, as terminate of their 'New Horizons' series.^{[3][note 1]} He has also sure a book on Buster Actor.

For the centenary of theatre in 1995, Robinson wrote The Chronicle of Cinema 1895-1995, precise 127-page introduction to film novel. This was serialised in decency form of five supplementary magazines accompanying Sight and Sound shake off September 1994 to January 1995.

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