Bibliograph

Keepers, the greatest films-and personal favorites-of a moviegoing lifetime, Richard Schickel

Type

Label

Keepers, the greatest films-and personal favorites-of a moviegoing lifetime, Richard Schickel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Keepers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

891185687

Responsibility statement

Richard Schickel

Sub title

the greatest films-and personal favorites-of a moviegoing lifetime

Summary

A critic and historian who has been watching cinema for seventy years and has seen almost nineteen thousand films presents a tour of his favorite movies, highlighting forgotten treasures and explaining what makes a film a hit or a flop

Table Of Contents

Notes toward the definition of an obsession -- Speaking of silence -- Exceptions -- Ironies -- The system -- Men with movie cameras -- A studio's way -- "The son of a gun is nothing but a tailor" -- A touch of Lubitsch -- Two cheers for Mr. Muckle -- Shrieks, freaks, geeks -- What's funny about that? -- Greatness -- Ornaments of the age -- "Up this hero goes" -- Getting serious -- Masterpieces -- Don't you know there's a war on? -- Children of paradise -- Crime waves -- Why we fight -- Muse of fire -- Here's looking at you, kid -- The best years -- Fasten your seat belts -- Don't unfasten those seat belts yet -- Mixed baggage -- To live -- Bergman--at last -- The criminal life -- Clint -- Belle de Jour -- The Apu trilogy -- Fellini -- Strange loves -- Getting started, or, I thought you'd never ask -- The wrath of God--or is it His silence? -- Marty -- Earning it, or, Spielberg's way -- Clint again -- Tarnished gold -- Kubrick again -- The Force is with us -- Losing it -- "No animals were harmed..." -- We've got to end somewhere -- That wonderful year--1987

Target audience

adult

Classification