Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire III (born June 3, 1951) is an American film critic, film writer and director.[1]
He was instrumental in the founding of Raleigh's Spectator Magazine in 1978. He served[when?] as chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle.[1]
In 2001 and in 2005, he received three awards for best arts criticism from the
Personal life
Cheshire was born and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. His parents are Sis and Buddy Cheshire. He has one brother, Sprague, and a sister, Sugar. He has two nieces, Sarah and Davi, and one nephew, Joe. He lives in New York.
Filmmaker
In 2005, he began shooting a documentary named Moving Midway, which shows the effect on his family of the moving of the family's plantation house from a site near a busy road back into the woods and a proper, tranquil setting, and at the same time, the effect on his family of meeting descendants of slaves his family had owned, including those descended from a slave and his great-grandfather.[3]
Film critic
He was instrumental in the founding of Raleigh's Spectator Magazine in 1978.
Of special interest to him are cinematic representations of the
Cheshire participated in the
References
- ^ a b c d e "Godfrey Cheshire Biography & Movie Reviews". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Archived from the originalon 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- ^ Roger Ebert (October 15, 2008). "Moving Midway Movie Review & Film Summary (2008)". Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- ^ "Godfrey Cheshire | BFI". Archived from the original on February 23, 2016.
External links
- Moving Midway
- Godfrey Cheshire at IMDb
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