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People only die of love in movies : film writing by Jim Ridley / edited by Steve Haruch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ridley, Jim, 1965-2016, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Reviews.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Combining a cineaste's deep knowledge of film with a slack-jawed kid's sense of wonder at the medium, Jim Ridley wrote about movies in a way few others could. At the time of his unexpected death in 2016, Ridley was editor-in-chief of the alt-weekly Nashville Scene, the paper where he started his career in 1989, and where he gained a loyal audience with his incisive, wide-ranging reviews. He reveled in the joy and mischief, dwelled on the beauty and the violence and navigated the mythology of cinema with a sharpness and an enduring curiosity that also earned him the respect of his peers around the country. People Only Die of Love in Movies takes its title from a line in the 1964 movie musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg -- a timeless example of the kind of magic that only film can summon -- and collects 72 of Ridley's film reviews, essays and journalistic works. It spans three decades of his writing and includes selections from the Nashville Scene, Village Voice and Criterion Collection"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780826522061
- 0826522068
- OCLC:
- 1002837110
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