Patricia Clarkson
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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet.
Aug 31, 2007 · For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism: Directed by Gerald Peary. With Patricia Clarkson, Harry Jay Knowles, Elvis Mitchell, Roger Ebert. The history of American film criticism.
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- Documentary, History
- Gerald Peary
- 2007-08-31
For the Love of Movies is the first documentary to dramatize the history of American film criticism and to explore its role in the evolution of American film. 80 minutes. Directed by Gerald Peary. Produced by Amy Geller. Written by Gerald Peary. Executive Producer: Ellen Poss. Edited by Sabrina Zanella-Foresi, Aleksandar Lekic.
From Frank E. Wood, "arguably the first film critic" (in the words of critic and historian Richard Schickel) through Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael to "Ain't It Cool News" and the rise of internet movie sites and amateur reviewers, For the Love of Movies chronicles the development of film criticism through its most influential writers, its ...
FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES is the first feature documentary to dramatize the rich, sociologically fascinating history of American film criticism. Written and dir...
- 2 min
- 7.9K
- aceamy
Summaries. The history of American film criticism. Relied upon by some moviegoers and reviled by others, film critics for over 100 years have represented a form of journalism that sought to find and judge film as an art in a way others might want to heed.
'For the Love of Movies' is the first documentary to dramatize the rich history of American film criticism -- from the raw beginnings before The Birth of a Nation to the current battle for audience between youthful website populists and the veteran print
- 2 min
