Judith Crist, Trailblazing Film Critic, Passes Away At 90 ? Watch Her Look Back On A 50 Year Career

Decades after making a name for herself as reporter and film critic at the New York Herald Tribune, New York Magazine, and the Today show, trailblazing journalist Judith Crist died Tuesday in Manhattan, confirms the New York Times. Crist additionally wrote for TV Guide, Saturday Review, Gourmet and Ladies? Home Journal during her career, which included a longtime stint as professor of journalism at Columbia and a cameo in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. After the jump, watch an interview with Crist filmed in May, on her 90th birthday, in which the spry critic took a look back at her fruitful career.

Speaking with Columbia J-school deans Sree Sreenivasan and Melanie Huff in May, Crist expressed her delight at making it to the year 2000, let alone 2012, with an infectious energy and wit.

?The most enjoyable part of living a long time is that it happens so quickly," she said. "I have to stop and think, ?My word, it?s a long time.? When I think of all the things that have changed, I don?t look back because I?ve had a wonderful life and so I've got nothing to bitch about."

The critic whom Roger Ebert, Tweeting today, referred to as "a tigress with high standards and great influence," famously eviscerated then-celeb couple Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in her review of 1963's Cleopatra. Scathing and thoughtful in good measure, Crist's gloriously epic 1,700-word review is viewable in full on the Columbia website, and caps with one of her more famous critical nuggets:

A painstaking attention to tiny details makes it all too obvious that nothing has been spared on the sets and costumes. There are indeed some beautiful and impressive photographic effects, with transitions

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