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The best film you've never seen : 35 directors champion the forgotten or critically savaged movies they love/ Robert K. Elder

By: Language: eng Publication details: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2013Description: viii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781569768389
  • 1569768382
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/330922
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995  E37b 2013
Contents:
After dark, my sweet / [James Foley, director] Austin Chick -- L'ange / [Patrick Boksnowski, director] The brothers Quay -- Arcane sorcerer / [Pupi Avati, director] Guillermo del Toro -- The beaver trilogy / [Trent Harris, director] Phil Lord -- Blume in love / [Paul Mazursky, director] Neil LaBute -- Boom! / [Joseph Losey, director] John Waters -- Breaking away / [Peter Yates, director] Richard Curtis -- Can't stop the music / [Nancy Walker, director] Jonathan Levine -- The chase / [Arthur Ripley, director] Guy Maddin -- Eureka / [Nicolas Roeg, director] Danny Boyle -- F for fake / [Orson Welles, director] Henry Jaglom -- Fearless / [Peter Weir, director] Richard Kelly -- The homecoming / [Peter Hall, director] Atom Egoyan -- The honeymoon killers / [Leonard Kastle, director] Todd Solondz -- The iceman cometh / [John Frankenheier, director] Arthur Hiller -- Institute Benjamenta / [Stephen and Timothy Quay, directors] Michael Polish -- ivansxtc / [Bernard Rose, director] Joe Swanberg -- Joe versus the volcano / [John Patrick Stanley, director] Jay Duplass -- Le joli mai / [Chris Marker, director] Steve James -- Killer klowns from outer space / [Stephen Chiodo, director] Brian Herzlinger -- A man for all seasons / [Fred Zinnemann, director] Kevin Smith -- Murder by contract / [Irving Lerner, director] Antonio Campos -- Le samouraï / [Jean-Pierre Melville, director] John Woo -- Some came running / [Vincente Minnelli, director] Richard Linklater -- The super cops / [Gordon Parks, director] Edgar Wright -- Sweet charity / [Bob Fosse, director] Bill Condon -- The swimmer / [Frank Perry, director] Alex Proyas -- 10 Rillington Place / [Richard Fleischer, director] Sean Durkin -- The trial / [Orson Welles, director] Frank Oz -- Trouble in paradise / [Ernst Lubitsch, director] Peter Bogdanovich -- Twin peaks: fire walk with me / [David Lynch, director] John Dahl -- Ugetsu / [Kenji Mizoguchi, director] Kimberly Peirce -- Under the volcano / [John Huston, director] Rian Johnson -- Who'll stop the rain / [Karel Reisz, director] John McNaughton -- WR: mysteries of the organism / [Dušan Makavejev, director] Alex Gibney.
Summary: Thirty-five directors reveal which overlooked or critically savaged films they believe deserve a larger audience while offering advice on how to watch each film.
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"An A Cappella Book."

After dark, my sweet / [James Foley, director] Austin Chick --
L'ange / [Patrick Boksnowski, director] The brothers Quay --
Arcane sorcerer / [Pupi Avati, director] Guillermo del Toro --
The beaver trilogy / [Trent Harris, director] Phil Lord --
Blume in love / [Paul Mazursky, director] Neil LaBute --
Boom! / [Joseph Losey, director] John Waters --
Breaking away / [Peter Yates, director] Richard Curtis --
Can't stop the music / [Nancy Walker, director] Jonathan Levine --
The chase / [Arthur Ripley, director] Guy Maddin --
Eureka / [Nicolas Roeg, director] Danny Boyle --
F for fake / [Orson Welles, director] Henry Jaglom --
Fearless / [Peter Weir, director] Richard Kelly --
The homecoming / [Peter Hall, director] Atom Egoyan --
The honeymoon killers / [Leonard Kastle, director] Todd Solondz --
The iceman cometh / [John Frankenheier, director] Arthur Hiller --
Institute Benjamenta / [Stephen and Timothy Quay, directors] Michael Polish --
ivansxtc / [Bernard Rose, director] Joe Swanberg --
Joe versus the volcano / [John Patrick Stanley, director] Jay Duplass --
Le joli mai / [Chris Marker, director] Steve James --
Killer klowns from outer space / [Stephen Chiodo, director] Brian Herzlinger --
A man for all seasons / [Fred Zinnemann, director] Kevin Smith --
Murder by contract / [Irving Lerner, director] Antonio Campos --
Le samouraï / [Jean-Pierre Melville, director] John Woo --
Some came running / [Vincente Minnelli, director] Richard Linklater --
The super cops / [Gordon Parks, director] Edgar Wright --
Sweet charity / [Bob Fosse, director] Bill Condon --
The swimmer / [Frank Perry, director] Alex Proyas --
10 Rillington Place / [Richard Fleischer, director] Sean Durkin --
The trial / [Orson Welles, director] Frank Oz --
Trouble in paradise / [Ernst Lubitsch, director] Peter Bogdanovich --
Twin peaks: fire walk with me / [David Lynch, director] John Dahl --
Ugetsu / [Kenji Mizoguchi, director] Kimberly Peirce --
Under the volcano / [John Huston, director] Rian Johnson --
Who'll stop the rain / [Karel Reisz, director] John McNaughton --
WR: mysteries of the organism / [Dušan Makavejev, director] Alex Gibney.

Thirty-five directors reveal which overlooked or critically savaged films they believe deserve a larger audience while offering advice on how to watch each film.

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