For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)
The story of American film criticism.
- Date of release
- 2009-03-01
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Gerald Peary
Casting
- Patricia Clarkson — Narrator
- Roger Ebert — Self
- Pauline Kael — Self
- Andrew Sarris — Self
- Harry Jay Knowles — Self
- Richard Schickel — Self
- Lisa Schwarzbaum — Self
- A. O. Scott — Self
- Mike Szymanski — Self
- Kenneth Turan — Self
- Scott Weinberg — Self
- Penelope Spheeris — Self
Interesting facts
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. It was produced by Amy Geller, written and directed by long-time Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary, and narrated by Patricia Clarkson. Critics featured include Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times, A.O. Scott of The New York Times, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly, Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times, and Elvis Mitchell, host of the public radio show The Treatment.
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