Gerald Peary

Film Review: “The Founder” — The First Trump Movie? No and Yes

January 30, 2017
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I ask you, thinking of The Founder: is it just a coincidence that the name Donald is imbedded in the name McDonald’s?

Book Review: “Acting” on the American Silver Screen

January 12, 2017
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Seven essayists in a new anthology take on a daunting task: characterizing styles of acting through the history of American film.

Book Review: Reading Literature Behind Bars

December 15, 2016
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Mikita Brottman gets raw, often very funny, and unexpected responses to the masterpieces she puts before her prisoners.

Film Review: A Perfunctory Documentary on Toshiro Mifune

December 5, 2016
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Legendary actor Toshiro Mifune could be less a stoic ronin, more a silly Jerry Lewis.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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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