Penelope Houston (film critic)

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Penelope Houston (b. 9th September, 1927) is a British film critic and journal editor. In 1947 she was the first editor of the short-lived film journal Sequence founded by Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz and Gavin Lambert at Oxford University, where she read English at Somerville College. From 1956 to 1990, she edited Sight & Sound, the journal of the British Film Institute, and was a regular contributor to the Monthly Film Bulletin for many years until the mid-1970s. She also had a stint as film critic for The Spectator, deputised as critic for The Times and for The Observer as C. A. Lejeune's deputy in 1957, and is the author of a number of books on cinema, including The Contemporary Cinema (1963) and Keepers of the Frame: Film Archives (1994).[1]

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