For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)

'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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Both renowned film critics, husband and wife Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell each, at one time, was the film critic at The Village Voice.

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Molly Haskell: "Diabolique" was the first French film I ever saw. First of all, it was set in this girls' school and I went to a girls' school and you had Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot sulking around having some sort of strange relationship... it sort of vaguely reminded me of some of the teachers in the girls school. And, then, the bathtub scene, which was the most terrifying, even after seeing "Psycho" or everything else, when you think someone's dead and then they rise. When Paul Meurisse rose, and I screamed, everyone in the audience screamed. I knew then, if I hadn't known before, that the totally convulsive affect of the immediacy of movies.

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Features A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Okay movie hopelessly out of date

This is an affectionate look at American film critics and the rise of criticism that was already out of date when it came out. It's not the movies fault, but it does make a viewing a quaint experience. Also, any time Harry knowles is on screen is cringeworthy. Would be worth an update, but no one really cares about critics anymore, so this will just stay a time capsule of a time and place.