Tom Milne

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{{Short description|British film critic}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

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| name = Tom Milne

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|04|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Malacca, Malaya

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|12|14|1926|04|2|df=yes}}

| death_place = Aberdeen, Scotland

| occupation = Film critic

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Tom Milne (2 April 1926 – 14 December 2005) was a British film critic.{{cite news |title=Tom Milne, 1926—2005 |last=Rosenbaum |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Rosenbaum |work=Sight & Sound |date=February 2006 |url=http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2006/02/tom-milne-1926%e2%80%942005/}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mastersofcinema.org/tommilne.htm |title=Memories of Tom Milne |publisher=Masters of Cinema |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100810140254/http://www.mastersofcinema.org/tommilne.htm |archivedate=2010-08-10}} See also {{cite web |title=Memories of Tom Milne |url=http://www.crimeculture.com/?page_id=783}}

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 (1954 to 1965).

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 Sight & Sound and editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin. His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey (1968) and Rouben Mamoulian (1969) in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director.{{cite book |title=Losey on Losey |last1=Losey |first1=Joseph |last2=Milne |first2=Tom |publisher=Doubleday |date=1968 |oclc=437579 }}{{cite book |last=Milne |first=Tom |title=Rouben Mamoulian |publisher=Indiana University Press |date=1969 |isbn=9780253150158 |oclc=56707 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/roubenmamoulian0000miln }} He also wrote a short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972).{{cite book |title=The Cinema of Carl Dreyer |last=Milne |first=Tom |publisher=A.S. Barnes |date=1971 |isbn=9780302020579 |oclc=129726}}{{cite book |last=Godard |first=Jean-Luc |title=Godard on Godard: Critical Writings |editor2-last=Milne |editor2-first=Tom |editor1-first=Jean |editor1-last=Narboni |publisher=Viking Press |date=1972 |isbn=9780670019359 |oclc=1164640 }}

In addition, Tom Milne oversaw the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings. He was the founding editor of the Time Out Film Guide, which went through nineteen editions from 1989 through 2010.{{cite book |title=Time Out Film Guide |date=1989 |editor1-first=Tom |editor1-last=Milne |isbn=9780140127003 |oclc=22306685 |publisher=Penguin}}{{cite book |title=Time Out Film Guide 2011 |date=2010 |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Pym |isbn=9781846702082 |oclc=555629372 |publisher=Time Out Guides Limited}}

An archive of over 3000 novels that were the personal collection of Tom Milne is held at Lancaster University Library.{{Cite web |title=Special Collections and Archives|url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections-and-archives/special-collections/#tom-milne-collection-567937-1|access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Lancaster University |language=en}}