I Found It at the Movies
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I Found It at the Movies

Reflections of a Cinephile

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I Found It at the Movies

Reflections of a Cinephile

About this book

For nearly half a century, Philip French's writing on cinema has been essential reading for filmgoers, cinephiles, and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. This collection brings togethersome of the best of French's film writing from 1964 to 2009 and explores a variety of topics, including British cinema, the Addams family, Satyajit Ray, Doris Day, Hollywood, and Hitchcock. A generous and enthusiastic compilation, this book is an illuminating companion to the world of cinema.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Film
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781847771292
eBook ISBN
9781847778215
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. My Mentor (2001) An Obituary
  7. The Right Kind of Englishman (1964)
  8. Violence in the Cinema (1965)
  9. The Alphaville of Admass Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boom (1966)
  10. Goodbye to all What? On Giving Up Film Criticism (1966)
  11. All the Better Books (1967)
  12. Incitement against Violence The American Crime Film (1968)
  13. LA: City of Dreadful Joy (1971)
  14. Cops (1974)
  15. Modest Mogul of Ealing: On Michael Balcon (1969)
  16. Clean Fun, Please, We’re British On Ealing Studios (1977)
  17. Film Choice: The Lady Vanishes (1980)
  18. Doris Day: The Girl Next Door (1980)
  19. A French Love Affair On Henri Langlois (1983)
  20. Alfred Hitchcock: The Filmmaker as Englishman and Exile (1985)
  21. British Cinema and the Post Office (1985)
  22. The Drive-In Critic (1989)
  23. Welles Reinstated (1990)
  24. Satyajit Ray at 70 (1991)
  25. This Is the Special Edition (1991)
  26. Sniping at the Front Line Film Critics Collected and Recollected (1991)
  27. The Value of Preying Together Charles Addams and his Family (1993)
  28. A Streak of Malice Graham Greene and the Movies (1994)
  29. The Miner in the Arts (1994)
  30. Hollywood and the Holocaust (1994)
  31. Lindsay Anderson (1994) An Obituary
  32. O Unhappy Man (2000)
  33. And Here’s One They Made Earlier On Film References (1994)
  34. Venice as Backdrop (1994)
  35. Brothers in the Big House Prison Movies (1995)
  36. Losing It to the Movies Seventy Years of the New Yorker (1995)
  37. Dilys Powell (1995) An Obituary
  38. On Film Criticism (1995)
  39. The Spanish Civil War (1995)
  40. Sport in Movies From Johnny WeissmĂźller to Vinnie Jones (1996)
  41. Explosive Moments Bombs in Movies (1997)
  42. Film Endings (1997)
  43. The Ring Cycle Boxers in Movies (1998)
  44. Extra Extra! Hollywood’s Blood Money (1998)
  45. The Designer as Auteur Ken Adam (1999)
  46. The Critics’ Century 1900–2000 (1999)
  47. ‘Without Fritz There’d Be No Star Wars’ On Fritz Lang (2000)
  48. The Two Samurai Kurosawa and Mifune (2002)
  49. The Man Who Shot America On John Ford (2002)
  50. Barbed Wire Valentine Anderson on Ford (1981)
  51. The Manhattan Projection New York in the Movies (2002)
  52. From Fear to Modernity Film Noir (2006)
  53. The Cold War and the American Cinema (2008)
  54. Victor Fleming: Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz (2009)
  55. Index of Films
  56. Index of Names
  57. About the Author
  58. Copyright