Penelope Houston (film critic)

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Penelope Houston is a British film critic and journal editor. In 1947 she was the first editor of the shortlived film journal Sequence founded by Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz and Gavin Lambert. From 1956 to 1990, she edited Sight & Sound, the journal of the British Film Institute. She also contributed to The Times, and is also the author of a number of important books on cinema, including The Contemporary Cinema (1963) and Keepers of the Frame: Film Archives (1994).[1]

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• Penelope Houston biography and credits at the British Film Institute's Screenonline