{"product_id":"keepers-the-greatest-films-and-personal-favorites-of-a-moviegoing-lifetime","title":"Keepers: The Greatest Films--And Personal Favorites--Of a Moviegoing Lifetime","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eKeepers: The Greatest Films--And Personal Favorites--Of a Moviegoing Lifetime\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Schickel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375424595\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand films. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \"obsession,\" \"lunacy,\" or a \"grand passion\" (Schickel grants all three), but there's simply no one who knows film better. Now Schickel gives us the ultimate summing up: a history of film as he's seen--and lived--it, a tour of his favorites, a master class in what makes a film soar or flop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Schickel's no-holds-barred, often raucously irreverent opinions can range from panning classics, to spotlighting forgotten treasures, to defending the art of \"popular\" 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 Capra's unlikely path to success, \u003ci\u003eAnnie Hall\u003c\/i\u003e'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 Ford's advice on directing, a \"dust-up\" in defense of Monty Python). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Above all, Schickel gives us a collection of the true gems, the immortal moments that have stuck with him over a lifetime of movie watching--the transcendent scenes, characters, lines, shots, scores, even lighting cues that offer, each in their way, pure \"movie magic.\" Buster Keaton, \u003ci\u003eHis Girl Friday\u003c\/i\u003e, Ingrid Bergman, \u003ci\u003eTaxi Driver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley Kubrick, \u003ci\u003ePulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e--Schickel reveals all the films and the forces behind them that have kept him coming back for more. \u003cbr\u003e An essential addition to any cinephile's library, \u003ci\u003eKeepers \u003c\/i\u003eis the curation of a brilliant connoisseur and critic, but more than that, it's a love letter to film from one of its most dedicated devotees.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Keepers: The Greatest Films--And Personal Favorites--Of a Moviegoing Lifetime | Richard Schickel | Hardcover | 9780375424595 | Used: Like New | Cinema 1676500","offer_id":48415075074200,"sku":"1676500","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51vK-L3S7RL.jpg?v=1773327892","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/keepers-the-greatest-films-and-personal-favorites-of-a-moviegoing-lifetime","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}