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The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

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So only someone with a vision like Barry Jenkins, who wrote and directed this adaptation, could bring it to the big screen. The one film book I crammed into my suitcase to keep me company when I went to live abroad for a couple of years; every dip into its pages offered something to think about, wonder at or silently dispute. Covering every national school of film-making from Hollywood to Bollywood, The Film Book has something for everyone. Don't fight Grandpa; it's time for a love story (you'll get that reference once you watch the movie). This long-unfindable book (now revived in a new edition) brings together essays that can stand alongside those of Borges, Barthes and just about anyone who helped shape it.

Though he could get it wrong (as in his cranky dismissal of Citizen Kane), Agee’s intense moral engagement with cinema sets him far above critics who merely get it right. Discover the behind-the-scenes stories about timeless classics like Citizen Kane and The Godfather, and take a front row seat at lavish blockbusters like Star Wars or Titanic. How Star Wars Conquered the Universe is full of fascinating facts that even some of the most diehard fans might not know--such as the fact that Star Wars merchandise outnumbers the population of Earth! Like most people in the unique position of foreknowledge of what others have said, I have avoided the choices that now seem obvious in this survey.The only general dictionary we trust: absolutely partisan while commendably catholic in its scope and taste – just check out the list of auteurs worth discussing more deeply at the very end of the second edition from 2003. The most recent remake stars Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, and Saoirse Ronan and is arguably the best interpretation of Alcott's story.

James Baldwin's 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk, about a young woman trying to clear the name of her boyfriend after he was wrongfully accused of a crime in New York, is an incredible read. A wealth of documents, but also Alain Bergala’s ever-clear, precise prose on one of the film-makers he knows best. His family is one of the richest and well-known families in the country, and his mother is not exactly welcoming of her son's new romance.This book is among the key chronicles of the 1960s and ’70s revolutions in cinema and film criticism. Which ought to rule out The Invention of Morel, the inspiration for Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The question of whether we should believe our eyes (or any of our senses) is dramatised in a setting that uncannily predicts cinema.

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