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Not to be missed, fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film, Kenneth Turan

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Not to be missed

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Kenneth Turan

fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film

"As a child in 1950s Brooklyn, Kenneth Turan often turned to television programs like "Million Dollar Movie" on WOR-TV. Featuring a much-loved theme song from Gone with the Wind, "Million Dollar Movie" would run one feature film twice a day, every day, all week. It was there that he developed a life-long love of the world of the movies. One of the most discerning critics writing today, in his latest book Kenneth Turan offers insights that are sure to delight and inspire movie-lovers of all kinds. As sophisticated and illuminating as the films they discuss, Turan's sketches are a blend of cultural analysis, historical anecdote, sordid Hollywood controversy, and astute critical appraisals, all suffused with his abiding love for the silver screen. Turan's favorite films range across all genres, low and high. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Spirited Away, these are now timeless films--classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with big budgets and small--each as interesting as the lives of the authors and actors that made the usually two-or-so-hour-long cinematic experience itself"--, Provided by publisher

In the beginning. Fantômas (1913-1914) ; Silent comedy double feature : Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Pass the gravy (1928) -- The Thirties. I am a fugitive from a chain gang (1932) ; Bombshell (1933) ; The dybbuk (1937) ; Leo McCarey double feature : Make way for tomorrow (1937) and Love affair (1939) -- The Forties. Pride and prejudice (1940) ; Ernest Lubitsch double feature : The shop around the corner (1940) and To be or not to be (1942) ; The Lady Eve (1941) ; Strawberry blonde (1941) ; Casablanca (1942) ; Random harvest (1942) ; Children of paradise (1945) ; Great expectations (1946) ; Bicycle thieves (1948) ; The third man (1949) -- The fifties. All about Eve (1950) ; The asphalt jungle (1950) ; Sunset Boulevard (1950) ; Casque d'or (1952) ; The importance of being Earnest (1952) ; Singin' in the rain (1952) ; The earrings of Madame De ... (1953) ; Seven samurai (1954) ; Kiss me deadly (1955) ; Seven men from now (1956) ; Sweet smell of success (1957) ; Vertigo (1958) -- The Sixties. The man who shot Liberty Valence (1962) ; The Gospel according to St. Matthew (1964) ; Point blank ; Le samouraï (1967) ; Kes (1969) -- The Seventies. The Godfather (1972) ; Chinatown (1974) -- The eighties. The day after Trinity (1981) ; First contact (1983) ; Distant voices, still lives (1988) -- The Nineties. Howards End (1992) ; Leolo (1992) ; Unforgiven (1992) -- The new century. Spirited away (2001) ; The best of youth (2003) ; The five obstructions (2003) ; Documentary double feature : Stranded (2007) and Senna (2010) ; A prophet (2009) ; Of gods and men (2010) ; Footnote (2011) -- Orson Welles double feature. Touch of evil (1958) ; and Chimes at midnight (1965) -- The fifty-fifth film -- A second fifty-four

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