Peter van Bueren

Peter van Bueren (19 March 1942 - 26 March 2020) was a Dutch film critic.

Van Bueren in Voor een briefkaart op de eerste rang (1974)

Van Bueren was born in Amsterdam. He studied political and social sciences and started working for the newspaper De Tijd in 1963. In 1968 it was for him the first time he visited Cannes Film Festival. He switched in 1976 to the newspaper de Volkskrant where he succeeded Bob Bertina after three years. For decades he was one of the leading film critics in the Netherlands. At the end of the nineties he got into a conflict with the editorial staff of de Volkskrant. An attempt to transfer Van Bueren to another editorial in the newspaper failed, but he got TV critic Ronald Ockhuysen as Chief Film Editor. In 2002 he retired, aged 60. During that year's International Film Festival Rotterdam he received a lifetime achievement award.[1]

In 1982 he was one of the founders of the Kring van Nederlandse Filmjournalisten (Circle of Dutch Film Journalists).[2]

Van Bueren had a section in the radio programm Radio Bergeijk. He can be seen in the documentary Parradox (2010) of In-soo Radstake about Pim de la Parra, and also in Ongoing Smile (2013) of Mohsen Makhmalbaf. In 2014 he was awarded the first Louis Hartlooper Oeuvre Prize for Film Journalism.

Van Bueren died on 26 March 2020 in Amsterdam, aged 78, due to cancer.[3]