Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375424598 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Five Stars. Great. This book feels like scraps cobbled together that did not make it into This book feels like scraps cobbled together that did not make it into one of his other, earlier books. I could not understand why he used the F word in a several places- added nothing to the prose and about 1000% out of place. While we're on word choice, the constant use of $10 words becomes a distracting problem.. J. Snider said The aphorism "don't judge a book by its cover" applies here. There is a common saying: "Don't judge a book by its cover." That certainly applies here. I think the title and press associated with this book are quite misleading, as it suggests a systematic effort to identify the best movies. Instead, what we have here is a sort of stream-of-consciousness set of reflections about the movies Richard Schickel has seen. There is merit in such an approach, but such an approach obviously has less mass market appeal, so some marketing wise guy at Knopf presumably decided to enhance its sales b
He has counted as personal friends many of the leading filmmakers of the twentieth century. From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand films. Now Schickel gives us the ultimate summing up: a history of film as he’s seen—and lived—it, a tour of his favorites, a master class in what makes a film soar or flop. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for Time magazine), has written almost forty books on the subject, and has produced and directed thirty documentaries. Above all, Schickel gives us a collection of the true gems, the immortal moments that have stuck with him over a lifetime of movie watching—the transcendent scenes, characters, lines, shots, scores, even lighting cues that offer, each in their way, pure “movie magic.” Buster Keaton, His Girl Friday, Ingrid B
His documentaries include Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin; Woody Allen: A Life in Film; and Shooting War, about combat cameramen in World War II. Everson Award for his work in film history. RICHARD SCHICKEL is a film critic, documentary filmmaker, and movie historian. W. His books include Conversations with Scorsese;Clint Eastwood: A Biography; Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America; and D. Griff
I think this is his most touching book.” —David Thomson . For kindred spirits who would rather watch a movie than do pretty much anything else, reading Schickel's memoir is like paging through a family photo album with a wise and witty elder who tells you what he thinks is going on around a picture's edges." —The Associated Press"Schickel's insights, when he chooses to go a little deeper, are terrific and accomplish what they should in a book like Keepers: Make you want t