Tom Milne

Who was Tom Milne?

Tom Milne was a British film critic.

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, which existed for a decade.

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 S&S and editor of the MFB. His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey and Rouben Mamoulian in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director. He also wrote a short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard.

In addition, Tom Milne oversaw the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings and was the founding editor of the Time Out Film Guide, first published in 1989.