
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction(2013)
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.


The story of American film criticism.

Patricia Clarkson
Narrator

Roger Ebert
Self

Pauline Kael
Self
Andrew Sarris
Self
Harry Jay Knowles
Self
Richard Schickel
Self
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Self
A. O. Scott
Self
Mike Szymanski
Self
Kenneth Turan
Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a documentary film released in 2009. Directed by Gerald Peary, it stars Patricia Clarkson, Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael. The story of American film criticism.
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