Education
King Edward"s School, Birmingham.
director film critic television presenter
King Edward"s School, Birmingham.
Millar was a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984. He also contributed to Sight and Sound and The London Review of Books. With the film director Karel Reisz, he co-authored The Technique of Film Editing (1968).
On television, he wrote, produced and presented Arena Cinema for the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1976 to 1980, and wrote and presented numerous other cinema and visual arts documentaries.
In 1980, he directed Dennis Potter"s Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television, which received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination. His first feature film as director was 1985"s Dreamchild.