Second sight : the selected film writing of Adam Mars-Jones. / Adam Mars-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mars-Jones, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Reviews.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books, 2019.

Summary:

"The film review can be a little art form, not just a consumer guide, as this collection shows. Covering more than 30 years of film releases, celebrated critic Adam Mars-Jones guides us through the most entertaining, most appalling, most fantastic films of his viewing lifetime, interleaving his original film reviews with new insights and reflections. Mars-Jones answers the questions that no other book has even bothered to ask. What is Twister really about? How many Steven Spielbergs are there? (Spoiler: he counts thirteen). How many of them are worth anything? Who had the greatest slow-burn career in the movies. (Clue: he taught Montgomery Clift how to roll a cigarette.) Which science-fiction film features the most haunting use of slime? Funny, combative and revealing, Second Sight is a celebration of the art form that maintains the strongest hold on the modern imagination."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

My independence

Alien3 (1992)

Strange days (1995)

Schindler's list (1993)

'Thirteen Spielbergs' (2016)

Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

'Slavish "Independents"' (1999)

Safe (1995)

Cinematically challenged (1996)

Who framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Toy story (1996)

'Being and viscousness' (2017)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

Twister (1996)

Logan lucky (2017)

Downsizing (2017)

Roma (2018)

Sauvage (2019)

Quiet, please (2004)

Prospero's books (1991)

The draughtsman's contract (1982, re-released 1994).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789141825

1789141826