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Title: Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week: 52 Classic Films for One Full Year by Peter Bogdanovich ISBN: 0-345-43205-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Labor of Love
Comment: This book was certainly a labor of love for filmmaker, historian and critic Peter Bogdanovich. The book is built around 52 articles, each concentrating on a single film of the week but also containing other suggestions of films by the same director or actor, so that really we are given several hundred film suggestions. The articles are extremely well written by a man who knew most of the directors and actors personally as a member of the club. 42 of the 52 articles are for films from the period 1930-1959, years very dear to a film historian's heart and to mine. Out of modesty, I'm sure, Bogdanovich didn't include two great films which he himself directed, namely "The Last Picture Show" (1971) and "Paper Moon" (1973), both available now on DVD. Don't neglect these.
This is obviously not a book for someone allergic to black and white or who judges films mostly on the special effects. But if you have a heart half as big as Bogdanovich's, it is likely the book for you. It was for me.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Provocative Look at Classic Cinema
Comment: As a critic and historian, Peter Bogdanovich has written about the talents behind the screen, including memorable studies on Orson Welles, Fritz Lang and Frank Tashlin. "Movie of the Week" is a fascinating series of critical and historic essays, ranging from masterworks ("Citizen Kane" and "Grand Illusion") to cult favorites ("Artists and Models" and "The Merry Widow"). His telling observations on influential silents such as "The Crowd" and "Steamboat Bill Jr." -- and lesser-known filmmakers like King Vidor and Allan Dwan -- make it a book worth having. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to disagree with Bogdanovich's 52 selections.
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Title: Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet by Peter Bogdanovich ISBN: 0345404572 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Great Movies by Roger Ebert ISBN: 0767910389 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind ISBN: 0684857081 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris ISBN: 0306807289 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films by Jay Carr, National Society of Film Critics ISBN: 0306810964 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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