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