Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies - Softcover

Schnickel, Richard

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9781566633185: Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566633184 ISBN 13: 9781566633185

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2000

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Some of the movies' greatest figures, some of the most important issues raised by the medium, come under close, highly personal, and deeply informed reflection in this new book by one of our most prominent and influential critics. A pleasure to read...intelligent, well-informed, insightful and unfailingly gracious.-Martin Scorsese.

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Enthusiastic...Schickel shares his vast knowledge of film history with a determination to get to the heart of the matter...a work of defiant clarity.--Diane Jacobs "The New York Times "

About the Author:

Richard Schickel is a film critic for Time magazine and an often-honored critic of the cinema. His many books include biographies of Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, D.W. Griffith, Cary Grant, and Walt Disney, as well as The Men Who Made the Movies, His Picture in the Papers, and Intimate Strangers. He lives in Los Angeles.

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