Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a

Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime

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. 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. He has counted as personal friends many of the leading filmmakers of the twentieth century. Call it â€œobsession,â€ â€œlunacy,â€ or a â€œgrand passionâ€ (Schickel grants all three), but thereâ€™s simply no one who knows film better. Now Schickel gives us the ultimate summing up: a history of film as heâ€™s seenâ€”and livedâ€”it, a tour of his favorites, a master class in what makes a film soar or flop.

Schickelâ€™s no-holds-barred, often raucously irreverent opinions can range from panning classics, to spotlighting forgotten treasures, to defending the art of â€œpopularâ€ genres such as horror, westerns, screwball comedy, and noir. Beyond his picks and pans, Schickel offers a wealth of behind-the-scenes anecdotes (a love note from Marlene Dietrich, Frank Capraâ€™s unlikely path to success, Annie Hallâ€™s original title), career studies of our greatest performers and auteurs, and candidly intimate glimpses of his own life in pictures (an evening with Greta Garbo, John Fordâ€™s advice on directing, a â€œdust-upâ€ in defense of Monty Python).

Above all, Schickel gives us a collection of the true gems, the immortal moments that have stuck with him over a lifetime of movie watchingâ€”the transcendent scenes, characters, lines, shots, scores, even lighting cues that offer, each in their way, pure â€œmovie magic.â€ Buster Keaton, His Girl Friday, Ingrid Bergman, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Stanley Kubrick, Pulp Fictionâ€”Schickel reveals all the films and the forces behind them that have kept him coming back for more.
An essential addition to any cinephileâ€™s library, Keepers is the curation of a brilliant connoisseur and critic, but more than that, itâ€™s a love letter to film from one of its most dedicated devotees.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-06-23
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
UPCs 884816989366
EANs 9780375424595

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-06-23
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
UPCs	884816989366
EANs	9780375424595

Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime

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