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
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. Gerald Peary, director; Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader; David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor. With newspapers and periodicals downsizing and devoting less space than ever to film criticism, what is happening to professional critics? After a screening of his 2010 film For the ...
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism 2007 1h 10m Documentary List Reviews 34% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A history of the rich saga of American movie reviewing.
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- Gerald Peary
- Documentary
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 ...
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.
