Gerald Peary

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Gerald Peary (born October 30, 1944) is an

film critic, filmmaker, editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and a former curator of the Harvard Film Archive
.

Early life and education

Peary graduated from

Fulbright Fellow in Belgrade, studying Yugoslavian film comedy.[3][4]

Career

Peary moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1978 to work as a first-string critic for The Real Paper, an alternative weekly, which closed in 1981. He is married to producer and filmmaker Amy Geller, former artistic director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Peary is the brother of American film critic and sportswriter Danny Peary.

He was a reviewer and columnist for the

Boston Phoenix from 1996 until its demise in 2012. He is now a critic-at-large[5] for The Arts Fuse, a Boston-based online arts magazine.[6] He was from 1998 to 1999 the Acting Curator of the Harvard Film Archive[2][7] and is now general editor of the University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Filmmakers Series.[8] Since 1997, he has been the programmer/curator of the Cinematheque at Boston University's College of Communication, bringing independent filmmakers to show their works. He has programmed for the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston, the Vancouver International Film Festival
, and helped choose films for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

His cinema articles have appeared in the

.

Peary is a member of the

Concordia University (Montreal), and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). He taught for over 30 years at Suffolk University, Boston,[9] where he was a professor of communication and journalism. He retired and was named Professor Emeritus in 2015.[10]

Peary also made the feature documentaries Archie’s Betty (2015) and The Rabbi Goes West (2019).[11] He made his acting debut playing a chess champion in Andrew Bujalski’s acclaimed independent feature, Computer Chess (2013).[12]

Upon being asked "What drew you to film criticism?", Peary replied, "I’m a film critic for my love of film. I want other people to see the same films that I saw and love. From the age of four, I was going to movies all the time."[13]

Work

Books

Films

References

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