Film columnist David Thomson explores a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality--as living beings and as ghosts buried beneath Mulholland Drive or wandering among us. He writes about James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, Greta Garbo--and James Dean had he lived. Thomson also examines Hollywood's preoccupation with love, sex, death, money, and glory.
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Film columnist David Thomson explores a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality--as living beings and as ghosts buried beneath Mulholland Drive or wandering among us. He writes about James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, Greta Garbo--and James Dean had he lived. Thomson also examines Hollywood's preoccupation with love, sex, death, money, and glory.
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New York. 1997. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679451153. 271 pages. hardcover. keywords: Film Hollywood. FROM THE PUBLISHER-David Thomson is at his incomparable best in this stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films--their stars and the illusions they create. He explores a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality, as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or buried beneath Mulholland Drive, or wandering among us. Like all of Thomson's writing on the movies, Beneath Mulholland is rich in its understanding of Hollywood, laced with irony, thoroughly provocative and brilliantly creative. There is also a steady fascination with love, sex, death, voyeurism, money and glory, all the preoccupations of Los Angeles--or of that movie L.A. whose initials, Thomson says, stand for Lies Allowed. Dazzling in its range, its style and its wisdom, Beneath Mulholland immeasurably enlarges and enriches our already undying memories of, and pleasure in, the Hollywood movie. inventory #24484.
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Used: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Films, CinemaDescriptionThe film columnist for Esquire offers a perceptive compilation of essays on Hollywood, its films, and its stars, analyzing Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown and discussing the careers of John Travolta, James Dean, Cary Grant, and others. 15, 000 first printing. Tour.
