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Iris Barry (1895 – 22 December 1969) was a film critic and curator. In the 1920s she helped establish the original London Film Society, and was the first curator of the film department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City in 1935.
After her success as a film critic, novelist, and co-founder of the London Film Society in 1925, Iris Barry’s career took a major downturn in the fall of 1930. She ran afoul of her employer, Lord Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, when she panned the Elinor Glyn film Knowing Men (1930).
10 ott 2014 · Tonight at the Museum of Modern Art, a film series begins dedicated to Iris Barry, the groundbreaking British critic and founding MOMA film curator.
Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformativ...
This chapter details Iris Barry's life following the death of her grandmother in 1916. She was working as a shorthand typist when she received an inquiry about her poetry from the American writer, Ezra Pound, then living in London.
Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the Isle of Man.
The woman film critic: Newspapers, cinema and Iris Barry to organise regular commentary on cinema's unique if sprawling significance, making cinema into news. This news was channelled through a media figure known as the film critic, bringing a new kind of cinema talk to a particular kind of audience: dispersed and mobile and reconfigured daily.
