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Keepers : the greatest films--and personal favorites--of a moviegoing lifetime
- Title
- Keepers : the greatest films--and personal favorites--of a moviegoing lifetime / Richard Schickel.
- Author
- Schickel, Richard.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 304 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- A critic and historian who has been watching cinema for seventy years and has seen almost nineteen thousand films presents a tour of his favorite movies, highlighting forgotten treasures and explaining what makes a film a hit or a flop.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Notes toward the definition of an obsession -- Speaking of silence -- Exceptions -- Ironies -- The system -- Men with movie cameras -- A studio's way -- "The son of a gun is nothing but a tailor" -- A touch of Lubitsch -- Two cheers for Mr. Muckle -- Shrieks, freaks, geeks -- What's funny about that? -- Greatness -- Ornaments of the age -- "Up this hero goes" -- Getting serious -- Masterpieces -- Don't you know there's a war on? -- Children of paradise -- Crime waves -- Why we fight -- Muse of fire -- Here's looking at you, kid -- The best years -- Fasten your seat belts -- Don't unfasten those seat belts yet -- Mixed baggage -- To live -- Bergman--at last -- The criminal life -- Clint -- Belle de Jour -- The Apu trilogy -- Fellini -- Strange loves -- Getting started, or, I thought you'd never ask -- The wrath of God--or is it His silence? -- Marty -- Earning it, or, Spielberg's way -- Clint again -- Tarnished gold -- Kubrick again -- The Force is with us -- Losing it -- "No animals were harmed..." -- We've got to end somewhere -- That wonderful year--1987.
- Call Number
- MFL 15-4127
- ISBN
- 9780375424595 (cloth)
- 0375424598 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2014034997
- OCLC
- 891185687
- Author
- Schickel, Richard.
- Title
- Keepers : the greatest films--and personal favorites--of a moviegoing lifetime / Richard Schickel.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- MFL 15-4127