Gerald Peary Gerald Peary is coming to Columbia this weekend for his 50th high school reunion and to the South Carolina premier screening of his documentary film

For the Love of Movies: the

Story of American Film

Cri ticism at the Nickelodeon Theatre.

Peary attended school in Columbia beginning in the fifth grade, then on to Hand Middle School, and through his high school graduation from Dreher High School in 1960. Peary claims he was not the best student at Dreher and spent quite a bit of time in detention. He says he was actually thrown out of his English class during his senior year for insulting his teacher and had to apologize to her in order to graduate. After high school, Peary moved to New Jersey to attend Rider College.

Peary developed his love of movies in Columbia, going to foreign films at a theatre in Five Points. He never missed the opening of Sci–Fi films.

Amy Geller Gerald Peary is now a film critic and cinema professor at Suffolk University in Boston.

Peary invites his for- mer classmates to attend

the screening of For the

Love of Movies at the Nickelodeon Theatre, 937 Main Street, Sunday, July 25 at 3 p.m., the day after the reunion.

According to Peary, the film combines provocative interviews with America’s most important film critics such as Roger Ebert along with entertaining clips from various Hollywood movies. This documentary has played at film festivals all over the world including Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Mexico, and in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Nashville. It was written and directed by Peary and produced by his wife, Amy Geller.

At Nickelodeon Theatre, Peary will introduce his film and do a Q&A after.

Peary says, “My desire is for an audience to become intimate with the reviewers behind the bylines, so it can be understood how critics think about and see movies.”

For more information

about For the Love of

Movies, visit fortheloveofmovies. net.