Peter Malone (critic)

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Peter Malone (born 1939) is an Australian film critic.[1] He is a Roman Catholic priest[2] and began his reviewing career in 1968 in The Annals, a publication of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, with his first review being of To Sir with Love.[3]

Malone has written many publications including the books The Film[4] Movie Christs and Antichrists[5] Myth & Meaning: Australian Film Directors In Their Own Words[2][6] Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film[7] and Dear Movies: Sharing Letters to My Favourite Films.[8]

Malone was the editor of Compass Theology Review,[9] the director of the Australian Catholic Film Office,[10] and was president of the International Catholic Cinema Organisation.[11]

References

  1. Scambary, Rex (3 January 1988), "Films: reflecting man's search for God. -The career of film reviewer Father Peter Malone-", Catholic Leader
  2. Joyce, James (19 May 2001), "Celluloid spirit - Weekender", Newcastle Herald
  3. Byrnes, Paul (6 October 2015), "The wide-screen life of Father Peter Malone, a critic for our times", The Sydney Morning Herald
  4. Pike, Andrew (September 1972), "Catholic Film Critic", Hemisphere
  5. Gill, Alan (24 December 1988), "Hollywood's saviours", The Sydney Morning Herald
  6. Carlyle, Diane; Walker, Nick; Dunstan, David (6 June 2001), "Gone in a blaze of millennial angst", The Australian
  7. Vredenburgh, Steven. "Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film". Journal of Religion & Film. 20 (3).
  8. Leonard, Richard (22 September 2020), "Dear Movies by Peter Malone is a love-letter to the cinema as a window on the world.", Australian Catholics
  9. "Talks by editor on films", The Canberra Times, 14 April 1982
  10. McKay, Sandra (14 May 1996), "Church warns that new film may offend", The Age
  11. Urban, Andrew L (6 September 1998), "High Priest Of Film", The Age