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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.
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. Written by Gerald Peary. Executive Producer: Ellen Poss. Edited by Sabrina Zanella-Foresi, Aleksandar Lekic.
Critic's Name Joe Leydon Publication Variety. The review. For all its attempts to offer an expansive and exhaustive historical account, the [documentary] is riddled with glaring gaps and facile ...
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- Gerald Peary
- Documentary
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?
'For the Love of Movies' is the first documentary to dramatize the rich history of American film criticism -- from the raw beginnings before The Birth of a Nation to the current battle for audience between youthful website populists and the veteran print
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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 ...
