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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: 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.
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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 ...
- Gerald Peary
- Scott Weinberg
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?
Apr 5, 2010 · For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism should be required viewing for anyone who wants to comment on the state of film criticism today: as critic turned filmmaker Gerald Peary’s documentary demonstrates, the field has been chock full of personality clashes, political posturing, conflicts of interest, and damned ...
