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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.
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.
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 ...
The film critic who recorded his industry's swan song Geoffrey Macnab: An unlikely hit at the Edinburgh film festival could be this paean to US film criticism â just as the profession...
for the love of movies: the story of american film criticism Posted August 30 , 2022 Full disclosure: Gerald Peary’s 80-minute documentary accords me two sound bites — one near the beginning (about Manny Farber), the other towards the end (about internet criticism) — and one lingering look at this web site (specifically, my 2005 essay ...
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.
