Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker
Alexander Walkerwas a film critic, born in Portadown, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and the University of Michigan, and worked for the Birmingham Post in the 1950s, before becoming film critic of the London Evening Standard in 1960, a role he retained until his death in 2003. He was a highly influential figure within the film industry, and also wrote a number of books including one on Stanley Kubrick,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
It's important that the people of Cherry Hill get to know their candidates and what they stand for before they choose who they want to represent them,
His films warn us we are risen apes, not fallen angels, creatures whose proud rationality suffers breakdown with convulsive effects.
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.