Stolen glimpses, captive shadows
Subtitle: writing on film, 2002-2012
By: Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781619021709
Subjects: Motion pictures
Work titles: Essays
Description: Collects top-selected essays written throughout the past decade, including essays on contemporary blockbusters, innovative triumphs, films inspired by myth, and unique filmmaker visions.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Popcorn park (Sam Raimi's Spider-Man) --; title: Learning to argue with Pauline Kael --; title: This is how it happens (Eric Rohmer's The lady and the duke) --; title: Prospero on the run (Steven Spielberg's Minority report) --; title: Minister of fear (Fritz Lang) --; title: An artisan of the unseen (Jacques Tourneur) --; title: Devotional furies (Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: vol. 1) --; title: Getting medieval at the multiplex (Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ) --; title: Was it all just a dream? (Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11) --; title: The return of the Shaw brothers --; title: The man in the smoking jacket (Cary Grant) --; title: Gangsters with toothbrushes (Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi) --; title: Calligraphy in blood (Kihachi Okamoto's The sword of doom) --; title: The comfort of Martians (Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds) --; title: A memory of Columbo --; title: Hero in waiting (John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln) --; title: The gleam of luminous water (Val Lewton) --; title: The labyrinth of adulthood (Carol Reed's The fallen idol) --; title: Meditations at the cinema café --; title: All aboard (Alfred Hitchcock's The lady vanishes) --; title: The guy with the sax (Edgar Ulmer's Detour) --; title: A northern New Jersey of the mind (David Chase's The Sopranos) --; title: Between heaven and hell (Akira Kurosawa's High and low) --; title: Redoubled obsessions (Magnificent obsession by John Stahl and Douglas Sirk) --; title: A persistent immediacy (Eric Rohmer's The romance of Astrea and Celadon) --; title: The old frontier (John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance) --; title: A great book of instances (Frederick Wiseman) --; title: The invention of the world (Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless) --; title: Dreamland (Josef von Sternberg's Underworld) --; title: Left alone (Leo McCarey's Make way for tomorrow) --; title: Dark magic (Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the beast) --; title: The variety of filmic experience (Terrence Malick's The tree of life) --; title: The secret life of objects (Olivier Assayas's Summer hours) --; title: The rapture of the silents (Michel Hazanavicius's The artist, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Victor Sjöström's The phantom carriage) --; title: Dreaming of water (Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the southern wild, Wes Anderson's Moonrise kingdom) --; title: A drifter and his master (Paul Thomas Anderson's The master) --; title: Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012.