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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 [1] 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.
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.
For The Love Of Movies: The Story Of American Film Criticism
Most mainstream moviegoers tend to think that film criticism is basically a matter of telling you which movies you should see, not trying to direct or redirect how you think about them. There’s a little in this documentary that contradicts this premise, but not a lot.
Stanley Kauffmann. Actor. Harry Jay Knowles. Actor. Page 1 of 5, 10 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A history of the rich saga of American movie reviewing.
This expansive and illuminating documentary made by Gerald Peary, a scholar and long-time film critic for The Boston Phoenix, bluntly captures the impetus behind its making by beginning with this announcement: “Today, film criticism is a profession under siege.”
