Monday, November 17, 2008
Film Movie critics on the big screen
Posted by J.R. Jones on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Gerald Peary, longtime film critic for the Boston Phoenix and curator of the Boston University Cinematheque, spoke recently with BU Today about his work at the cinematheque, the state of film criticism in the online age, and his new documentary For the Love of Movies: The History of American Film Criticism. Among the writers featured in the documentary are Roger Ebert, Stanley Kauffman, Harry Knowles, Karina Longworth, Elvis Mitchell, Wesley Morris, Rex Reed, Andrew Sarris, Linda Schwarzbaum, A.O. Scott, and Kenneth Turan.
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Peary's a first-class twerp - just go and the read the narcissistic hysteria that passes for criticism at his crappy film site: according to him, he's the only American critic to have written anything significant, the only one with guts not to fawn over a star director, the only one to really love the movies, the only one to slog it out looking for film funding, in short, the veteran who's been there and back. Sorry, but anyone who looks like the runner-up in an Elmer Fudd Lookalike Contest just can't be taken seriously. And he's clueless as to why newspapers are firing film critics.
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