Do the movies have a future? / David Denby.
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- 9781416599470 (hardcover)
- 9781416599487 (pbk.)
- 9781439110096 (ebook)
- 791.430973 DEN-D
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Includes index.
Preface -- Introduction: the way we live now -- Trends. Conglomerate aesthetics; Pirates on the ipod: the soul of a new screen; Spectacle: the passion of the Christ, Avatar, Endless summer- digital all the time -- Independent glories. Sideways, Capote, Capturing the Friedmans, The squid and the whale, The diving bell and the butterfly, There will be blood, The hurt locker, Winter's bone -- Stars. Joan Crawford; Fallen idols: movie stars today -- Genres. High school movies; Chick flicks; Romantic comedy gets knocked up -- Directors. Otto Preminger; Victor Fleming; Pedro Almodóvar; Clint Eastwood; The Coen Brothers; Quentin Tarantino: Pulp fiction, Kill Bill: vol. 1, Inglourious basterds; David Fincher/The social network -- Two critics. James Agee; Pauline Kael -- An opening to the future? Mumblecore; Terrence Malick's insufferable masterpiece -- Rise of the planet of the apes.
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