Since there are so few resources on the critique of film criticism (i.e., meta-criticism), a film like this is very interesting to me, and I suppose many others who are the frustrated film critics writing down their thoughts/opinions in venues like this on IMDb! I enjoyed listening to what Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael had to say, as well as Roger Ebert and a fantastic-looking Molly Haskell. Many of the other critics seemed a little too self-important and full of themselves, which wasn't much of a surprise to me.
The problem I had with this film occurred at the beginning and the end of it, where director Peary laments the fact that film critics are being fired at newspapers, like Elvis Mitchell, Jami Bernard, and Michael Wilmington. While I take no pleasure in people losing their jobs, it was hard to feel bad for people who clearly would end up landing on their feet doing something else. As much as I like film criticism, these people are not curing cancer, and I fail to see the "crisis" of film critics losing their jobs.
The problem I had with this film occurred at the beginning and the end of it, where director Peary laments the fact that film critics are being fired at newspapers, like Elvis Mitchell, Jami Bernard, and Michael Wilmington. While I take no pleasure in people losing their jobs, it was hard to feel bad for people who clearly would end up landing on their feet doing something else. As much as I like film criticism, these people are not curing cancer, and I fail to see the "crisis" of film critics losing their jobs.