Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays and Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair with the MoviesPhillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And, over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second, Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here, in one place, are the very best of these essays, a joy for anyone who loves movies. |
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The Heroic | 3 |
The First New York Film Festival1963 | 27 |
Jerry Lewis Adjusts | 39 |
Copyright | |
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