Founder of Barncat Publishing Inc., Bernard is a former film critic for “The New York Daily News.” She is the author and editor of five books on film, including “The X List: Movies That Turn Us On,” and one about breast cancer, which she successfully battled. She also has written a Lois Lane and a [...]
Since 1980, Corliss has written film reviews and many cover stories for “Time” magazine. Earlier, he edited the magazine, “Film Comment,” and wrote the important book, ‘Talking Pictures,” making an argument for the key roles of the screenwriter and screenwriting in the artistry of movies. He has been a television guest 14 times on “The [...]
The best-known and probably best-loved American film critic, Ebert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and, in 2009, was made an honorary life member of the Directors Guild of America. He’s written thousands of reviews for “The Chicago Sun-Times” since 1967, and, for 23 years, he co-hosted a popular television show [...]
At age 22, Gleiberman graduated from reviewing for the college newspaper at the University of Michigan to, in 1981, writing for “The Boston Phoenix,” where he eventually became first-string critic. He has been a critic for “Entertainment Weekly” since the magazine began in 1990. He is also a reviewer for NY-1, New York’s 24-hour cable [...]
From working at the French Film Office in the 1960s, Haskell went to “The Village Voice,” where she was a groundbreaking, extremely influential feminist film critic. Her feminist consciousness also informed her classic 1977 best-seller, “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies.” Her 1990 memoir, “Love and Other Infectious Diseases,” chronicled [...]
His first film review for “The Village Voice” was in 1977. He’s been there ever since, and as senior film critic since 1986. Additionally, he’s a professor of film studies at New York University, and the author of a wide-range of scholarly film books, from “Midnight Movies” (with Jonathan Rosenbaum) to “Bridge of Light: Yiddish [...]
Born in 1916, Kauffmann has been writing about films for “The New Republic” since 1958, easily the longest run of an American reviewer. Additionally, he has published twelve books of criticism, seven novels, and a memoir, “Albums of Early Life.” His anthology (with Bruce Hensell), “American Film Criticism: From the Beginnings to Citizen Kane,” is [...]
Since 1988, Klawans has been film critic for “The Nation,” filling a position earlier held by such luminaries as James Agee. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Klawans has taught film criticism at Columbia University, and published two books of criticism, “Film Follies: Cinema Out of Order” and “Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and [...]
In 1996, Knowles launched the immensely popular website, ainticoolnews.com, out of his bedroom in Austin, Texas. He claims to have readers in every country in the world, and two million individual readers per month on his Website. With his influence on young movie fans, Knowles is often flown to Hollywood for an advanced look at [...]
The co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the film blog Cinematical, Longworth has written about film, new media and popular culture for a variety of sites and print publications, including NewTeeVee, Netscape, TV Squad, and “Filmmaker Magazine.” She currently blogs about film for Spout.com, where she also contributes to the FilmCouch podcast. Her reviews can be [...]
He was a film critic for “The Fort Worth Star-Telegram” and the “Detroit Free Press” before becoming the first African-American critic for “The New York Times,” Since leaving the “Times” in 2004, Mitchell has appeared regularly on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” hosted the television shows, “The Treatment” and “Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence,” and produced “The [...]
A graduate of Yale University, Morris wrote reviews for “The San Francisco Examiner” and ‘The San Francisco Chronicle” before becoming co-first-string critic (with Ty Burr) for “The Boston Globe.” Morris is a member of The Boston Society of Film Critics and The National Society of Film Critics, and his writings have appeared in Slate, “The [...]
The long-time film critic at “Vogue,” Powers writes the “On” column for “LA Weekly” and is critic-at-large for National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air With Terry Gross.” Also a left-of-center political analyst, he is the author of “Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America” (Doubleday). His writings can be found at http://www.sorewinners.com/columns.html.
A critic of independent, Latin American, documentary and gay films, and a professor of community studies and social documentation at UC Santa Cruz, Rich is credited with coining the term New Queer Cinema. She has reviewed for “The Chicago Reader,” “The San Francisco Bay Guardian,” “The Guardian” (England), and published the well-received 1988 “Chick [...]
The recently retired, long-time reviewer of “The Chicago Reader,” Rosenbaum is, among contemporary American film critics, the most admired and most influential in Europe. He has published 12 books of film writing, including a memoir, “Moving Places: A Life in the Movies,” and appreciations of Abbas Kiarostami and Orson Welles. His website is www.jonathanrosenbaum.com
In a half-century of reviewing, most famously at “The Village Voice,” Sarris is the critic credited with bringing “the auteur theory” from France to America, asserting, in the 1960s, that the film director is the true artist in the process of movie-making. His book, “The American Cinema, Directors and Directions 1929-1968,” has influenced generations of [...]
A reviewer for “Time” since 1972,is also a documentary filmmaker and movie historian, who has written over 30 books, among them “The Disney Version,” “D.W. Griffith: An American Life,” “Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity,” “Brando: A Life in Our Times,” and a memoir, “Good Morning Mr. Zip Zip Zip.” His 30 documentaries include [...]
Trained as a concert pianist and a violist, Schwarzbaum switched to journalism, writing for “The Real Paper” in Boston before coming to New York, where she has been a film critic for “Entertainment Weekly” since its 1991 inception. A member of The New York Film Critics Circle and The National Society of Film Critics, she [...]
A film critic for “The Los Angeles Times” since 1991, Turan is the director of the “Times’s” book prizes, and a regular reviewer for NPR’s “Morning Edition.” A one-time book reviewer and sportswriter for “The Washington Post,” he is the author of six books on the cinema, including one about celluloid pornography and an “autobiography” [...]
A stage actor in college at the University of Wisconsin, where he wrote for the magazine, “The Velvet Light Trap,” Wilmington received early recognition for his 1974 book, “John Ford,” co-authored by Joseph McBride. Afterward, he was a film critic for “Isthmus,’ “The Los Angeles Times,” and, for many years, for “The Chicago Tribune.” A [...]
“For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism” is the first documentary to dramatize the rich saga of American movie reviewing. Directed by “Boston Phoenix” critic, Gerald Peary, “For the Love of Movies” offers an insider’s view of the critics’ profession, with commentary from America’s best-regarded reviewers, Roger Ebert (“The Chicago Sun-Times”), A.O. Scott (“The New York Times”), Lisa Schwarzbaum (“Entertainment Weekly”), Kenneth Turan (“The Los Angeles Times”) Read More →
The world premiere of “For the Love of Movies” at the SXSW Film Festival was a huge success. From there, Gerry took the film to Guadalajara, Mexico and then to Hong Kong (HK). If you couldn’t make it to Austin, Mexico or HK, see below for a bunch of other festivals where we will be showing the movie. Please note this list gets updated regularly. Gerry and the Buddha, Hong Kong Read More →
The New England premiere of “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism” at the Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFB) was a great occasion. An audience of 275 came to the ICA/Boston on a Monday night, April 27, and about 25 of the crowd stayed on for an after-the-show gathering at the nearby Barking Crab restaurant: conversation, beer, and fried seafood. Read More →
The SXSW International Film Festival in Austin, Texas, was the perfect place on earth for the world premiere of our film, “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.” Amy and Gerry love Austin, we’ve been to the Fest before and had a great time, and this year, an extra treat, our friend, Janet Pierson, has taken over as Artistic Director. What’s not to like for Bostonians escaping in March the horrid winter for warm, sunny (well, part of the time this year!), ultra-informal, ultra-friendly Austin? As for the audience at SXSW, it’s young, genuinely hip, and deeply movie-crazy. Read More →
