Gerald Peary

Film Review: “An Easy Girl” — Finally, a Worthwhile Movie on Netflix

August 24, 2020
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So what’s up with the 16 year old Naima, who has been mostly watching and listening? Is it time for her to become an “adult”?

Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Campus Best, Post 1980

August 22, 2020
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Let’s experience college nostalgically and vicariously, with this pick of the best college movies of the last 35 years.

Film Review: Yet More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 8

August 21, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.

Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Campus Best, Pre-Pre-Covid

August 17, 2020
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A dozen feature films — none made less than 35 years ago — that best capture the American campus experience and spirit.

Film Interview: Budd Schulberg on Being a Screenwriter in Hollywood

August 15, 2020
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“It’s really time for us to scrape off this cynicism and take a good hard look at what is happening in this country. There’s so much fakery and we don’t mind it.”

Book Review: “Hollywood Babylon II” Revisited

August 10, 2020
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Hollywood Babylon II is almost as addictive, seductive, compulsively page-turning as its inglorious Hollywood Babylon predecessor..

Critical Commentary: The Shaky Life of a Film Critic

August 6, 2020
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Cinema reviewing exists as a respected profession only as long as the traditional role of the critic is honored.

Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 7

July 28, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.

Film Reconsideration: Greta Garbo — 30 Years After Her Death

July 20, 2020
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Women’s maltreatment for 3,000 years registers on Greta Garbo’s tragic visage, whether she is Anna Christie, Camille, or Queen Christina.

Film Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — A Singular and Mysterious Consciousness

July 16, 2020
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With its many virtues, Flannery isn’t the perfect film biography. It’s a shoot-by-the-numbers conventional PBS American Experience.

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