Film Follies The Cinema Out of Order |
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| Author:
| Klawans, Stuart |
| ISBN: | 978-0-304-70054-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.95 |
Book Description:
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As New A history and theory of going too far, "Film Follies S examines those rare pictures that are both cinematic landmarks and monuments to a director "s hybris, from Griffith "s "Intolerance S through to Coppola "s "Apocalypse Now S and Carax "s "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf S. Seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, fantastic architecture and the haphazard structure of a musical revue: such are the landmarks of those improbably great (and greatly improbable) films Klawans calls "follies S>
As New A history and theory of going too far, "Film Follies S examines those rare pictures that are both cinematic landmarks and monuments to a director "s hybris, from Griffith "s "Intolerance S through to Coppola "s "Apocalypse Now S and Carax "s "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf S. Seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, fantastic architecture and the haphazard structure of a musical revue: such are the landmarks of those improbably great (and greatly improbable) films Klawans calls "follies S>