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David Chute, Longtime Film Critic, Dies at 71

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David Chute, a veteran film critic and writer best remembered for his work at Film Comment magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, died on November 8 after a battle with esophegeal cancer, his daughter, Nora Chute, said.

He was 71. A native of Maine, Chute got his start as a film critic at the Kennebec Journal and The Maine Times before joining the Boston Phoenix in 1978, where he championed horror directors like George Romero and John Carpenter.

He soon began working for Film Comment magazine, contributing early profiles of indie auteurs like John Sayles and John Waters in the early 1980s.

There he also met his future wife, film journalist Anne Thompson, who was an associate editor at the time. In 1982, Chute joined Peter Rainer as a.

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