Oliver's Story (film) Oliver's Story (film) Oliver's Story is a 1978 American romantic drama film and a sequel to "Love Story" (1970) based on a novel by Erich Segal published a year earlier. It was directed by John Korty and again starred Ryan O'Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge and Francis Lai. It was released by Paramount Pictures on December 15, 1978. This film's promotional tagline is: ""It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special."" Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his young wife Jenny, who
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet. It was produced by Amy Geller, written and directed by long-time Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary, and narrated by Patricia Clarkson. Critics featured include Roger Ebert of "The Chicago Sun-Times", A.O. Scott of "The New York Times", Lisa Schwarzbaum of "Entertainment Weekly", Kenneth Turan of