The Pleasure-dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40"...this collection of his film reviews for The Spectator and the distinguished, ill-fated magazine Night and Day between 1935 and 1940...here he writes on Garbo at the peak of her career, on the best of the British documentary movement, on films by Bunuel, Capra, Hitchcock, Korda, Lubitsch, Renoir, and many others."--Adapted from publisher description. |
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