Gerald Peary (born October 30, 1944) is an American film critic, who was a reviewer and columnist for the Boston Phoenix from 1996 to 2012, until its demise. He is now a critic-at-large for The Arts Fuse, a Boston-based online arts magazine. He was from 1998 to 1999 the Acting Curator of the Harvard Film Archive and is now the General Editor of the University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Filmmakers Series. Since 1997, he has been the programmer/curator of the BU 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 now helps choose films for the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.His cinema articles have appeared in many newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Chicago Tribune, and The Real Paper. Peary has also contributed to numerous magazines, including Film Comment, Cineaste, Sight & Sound, the Boston Review, Flare, and Maclean's. His reviews can be read on Rotten Tomatoes.Peary is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, the National Society of Film Critics, and FIPRESCI (the International Film Critics Association). He has frequently served as president of international critics' juries at film festivals including Rotterdam, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Karlovy Vary, Mannheim-Heidelberg, San Francisco, and Mar del Plata, and he helps choose films for the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Peary has taught film studies and screenwriting classes at many universities, including The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Livingston College-Rutgers University, Boston University, Concordia University (Montreal), and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). Since 1981, he has taught journalism and film studies courses at Suffolk University, Boston, where he is Professor of Communication and Journalism.
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