Arts critics tend to get a rough time of it in themovies.
But its got us thinking about the crossover between judging and creating cinema.
From Oscar-nominated dramas to joyous genre schlock, heres how a few of them got on.
Cahiers writers-turned-directors included Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol.
For those of you who dont know the name Peter Bogdanovich, you probably know his work.
I lost my mind and then I lost my shirt.
I tried to distribute the film myself and that was a big mistake.
I ended up in a very bad situation.
Well, this is the movie about who finds the footage.
Id love to see a blogger revolution overtake cinema trying to make it better.
Not bad for someone who started out writing about geeky and cult film interests now he writes his own.
I was a critic for six months, I didBack Rowand its tough, it made me dislike films.
It started to distort my mind so I had to stop.
He was also the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
I think of it as an essay on our generic expectations.
The two also collaborated on 1976sUp!
Eberts forays into screenwriting speak to his great open-mindedness about genre.
Its proof, if proof were needed, that critics really do love films.
