Gerald Peary

Book Review: A Superb Biography of French Filmmaker Éric Rohmer

November 18, 2016
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The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.

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Film Review: Down Mexico Way — Los Cabos International Film Festival

November 16, 2016
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If tourists come here for the fishing, the golf, the grand hotels, the real estate, why not also for an interesting lineup of movies?

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Film Review: The Vancouver International Film Festival — Sensible and Satisfying

October 14, 2016
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At the Vancouver Film Festival, cinema lovers could look at movies which had been much praised at prior festivals, including winning prizes.

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Film Review: Was “The Lovers & the Despot” Really Necessary?

September 26, 2016
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Kim Jong-il, then heir to the leadership of North Korea, kidnapped South Korean superstars to beef up the country’s impoverished cinema.

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Film Commentary: This Year’s Venice International Film Festival — From a Judge’s Perch

September 16, 2016
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Who can complain of ten days on the Lido, by the Adriatic Sea?

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Film Review: “Miss Sharon Jones!” — Soulful Inspiration

August 29, 2016
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If this movie boosts Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings into well-paid entertainers with a major record deal, I salute filmmaker Barbara Kopple.

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Book Review: “The Violet Hour” — Death Illuminated

August 2, 2016
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In her fabulous, intensely involving book, author Katie Roiphe crawls into the deathbeds of five writers who wrote brilliantly and prolifically.

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Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Café Society” — Cobwebbed

July 24, 2016
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Conclusion: Woody Allen is, and long long has been, an aged fart.

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Book Review: “When Movies Were Theater” — Exploring Where We Watch the Movies

June 15, 2016
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If you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.

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Film Review: “The Fallen Idol” — Through the Eyes of a Child

June 10, 2016
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The Fallen Idol is one of the best achieved examples in cinema of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.

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