Edited by Jim Shepard, this is a series of essays by writers on different films. The contributions are: Julian Barnes: Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol) Rick Bass: Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo) Charles Baxter: The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) Anne Carson: Quadrat I and II (Samuel Beckett) J. M. Coetzee: The Misfits (John Huston) Robert Coover: Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton) Stephen Dobyns: The Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman) Deborah Eisenberg: Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda) Ron Hansen: Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel) Edward Hirsch: Stevie (Robert Enders) Richard Howard: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) Philip Levine: The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding) Margot Livesey: I Know Where I'm Going (Michael Powell) Philip Lopate: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard) Rick Moody: Destroy All Monsters! (Ishiro Honda) Lorrie Moore: Titanic (James Cameron) Francine Prose: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) Lawrence Raab: Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni) Salman Rushdie: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) Michael Ryan: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) Jim Shepard: The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut) Charles Simic: Cops (Buster Keaton and Edward Cline) Susan Sontag: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Robert Stone: The Krays (Peter Medak) Ellen Bryant Voigt: Chinatown (Roman Polanski) Geoffrey Wolff: Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols) Also contains a separate press release from the publishers advertising the book.
| Item number | 34075 |
|---|---|
| Category | Book |
| Type | Criticism/History |
| Dimensions | Standard |
| Language | English |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Related people | Jim Shepard (Editor) |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection