Patricia Clarkson
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English. For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism [1] through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet. It was produced by Amy Geller, written and ...
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
After a screening of his 2010 film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism at the National Gallery of Art on March 5, 2011, director Gerald Peary joined film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader) and David Sterritt (Christian Science Monitor) to discuss the role and importance of film criticism. 05/24/11.
Mar 28, 2009 · For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism Production: An AG Films production. Produced by Amy Geller, Sharon Brooks. Executive producer, Ellen Poss. Directed, written by Gerald ...
The Story of American Film Criticism. 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.
Peary's film is a love letter to the movies and film criticism, but it is also a lament for a dying profession and it makes a case for why that is important.At the center of the documentary is the print battle between Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael over the auteur theory, the idea that the director is the primary author of a film, which wound ...
Summary From the raw beginnings of criticism before D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation' to the incendiary Pauline Kael-Andrew Sarris debates of the 1960s and 70s, to the battle today between youthful on-liners and the print establishment, this documentary tells all through the insights and expertise of a diverse group of passionate film critics.
