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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2016-02-23
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780316382960
- Book Title
- Movie Freak : My Life Watching Movies
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 20.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed. Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby when he was a wide-eyed 9 year old, then as a possessed cinemaniac who became a film critic right out of college. In Movie Freak , his enthrallingly candid, funny, and eye-opening memoir, Gleiberman captures what it's like to live life through the movies, existing in thrall to a virtual reality that becomes, over time, more real than reality itself. Gleiberman paints a bittersweet portrait of his complicated and ultimately doomed friendship with Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker film critic who was his mentor and muse. He also offers an unprecedented inside look at what the experience of being a critic is really all about, detailing his stint at The Boston Phoenix and then, starting in 1990, at EW , where he becomes a voice of obsession battling-to a fault-to cling to his independence. Gleiberman explores the movies that shaped him, from the films that first made him want to be a critic ( Nashville and Carrie ), to what he hails as the sublime dark trilogy of the 1980s ( Blue Velvet , Sid and Nancy , and Manhunter ), to the scruffy humanity of Dazed and Confused, to the brilliant madness of Natural Born Killers, to the transcendence of Breaking the Waves, to the pop rapture of Moulin Rouge! He explores his partnership with Lisa Schwarzbaum and his friendships and encounters with such figures as Oliver Stone, Russell Crowe, Richard Linklater, and Ben Affleck. He also writes with confessional intimacy about his romantic relationships and how they echoed the behavior of his bullying, philandering father. And he talks about what film criticism is becoming in the digital age: a cacophony of voices threatened by an insidious new kind of groupthink. Ultimately, Movie Freak is about the primal pleasure of film and the enigmatic dynamic between critic and screen. For Gleiberman, the moving image has a talismanic power, but it also represents a kind of sweet sickness, a magnificent obsession that both consumes and propels him.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0316382965
ISBN-13
9780316382960
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217018781
Product Key Features
Book Title
Movie Freak : My Life Watching Movies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1998.3.G585a3 2016
Reviews
"Owen Gleiberman may be the most consistently perceptive of our big-league movie critics, and MOVIE FREAK is filled with his provocative judgments. (Kurosawa, Godard, even Welles - these guys sometimes suck, right?) But Gleiberman also opens up his own life to lay bare issues of love and death and dreams and desire. He provides an insider's tour of the shark-tank New York media world, and more sex and drugs and rock and roll than you might possibly expect. This isn't just one of the most fascinating books of its kind - it's a new kind altogether."-- Kurt Loder, author of The Good, the Bad and the Godawful and movie reviewer for Reason.com
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-039430
Dewey Decimal
791.43092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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