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( West Side Story is referenced but the book was written prior to the release of the 2021 musical.) In addition to the inclusion of this beguiling collection of films, Friedman takes close looks at some of the more ignored works in Spielberg’s filmography. It is especially noteworthy due to the inclusion of Spielberg’s genre-hopping efforts since the book’s first edition: Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, The BFG, The Post, and Ready Player One.

Friedman’s essential study of Steven Spielberg’s life and career. Friedman (University of Illinois Press)Īfter seeing (and adoring) The Fabelmans ( review here) at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, I was thrilled to dig into the second edition of Lester D. Who was Barry Brown? What did it all mean? Am I the only one who remembers Barry Brown? Am I enough?” Cinema Speculation is a sign that if Tarantino does eventually go through with his oft-mentioned early retirement from directing, his second career-author, not actor-will keep his fans thrilled.Ĭitizen Spielberg by Lester D. Turning all of us who liked Barry Brown, when we watch the end of Daisy Miller, into Winterbourne. That was not to be Brown’s fate, sadly: “he year of that film’s release, at the age of twenty-seven, Barry Brown took his own life. Brown is a figure who, in an alternate universe, may have ended up as a QT reclamation project. He played the title character’s suitor, Frederick Winterbourn, the much-derided Bogdanovich vehicle. Most affecting is Tarantino’s tribute to doomed Daisy Miller star Barry Brown. Some of these examples are memories from his own life, including a life-altering experience seeing Jim Brown in Black Gunn with his mother’s boyfriend. However, what I found most beguiling about Cinema Speculation is its level of emotion. There are a great many oh-so-Tarantino elements in the writing, of course-the snarky put-downs of the likes of Truffaut, de Palma, and Altman personal what-ifs (Paul Newman or Gene Hackman as genial bail bondsman Max Cherry?!) some pleasurable name-dropping (tidbits are relayed from conversations with folks like Walter Hill, Peter Bogdanovich, and even Steve McQueen’s first wife, Neile Adams) alternate readings of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Getaway adoration for character actors like Joe Don Baker and Dirty Harry’s Andy Robinson disappointment with the endings of Heat and Sisters.

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The experience of reading Speculation is akin to hearing Tarantino zip through his childhood movie habits-the text mostly focuses on films between 1968 ( Bullitt) and 1981 ( The Funhouse), although references are made to works from all eras of cinema. Others, like 1973 crime drama The Outfit, are not. Some, like Deliverance and Taxi Driver, are canon. It is a collection of essays built around films seen during his adolescence that impacted him greatly. He follows that success with what just might be 2022’s best film-related books, Cinema Speculation. Quentin Tarantino wrote one of 2021’s most notable film-related books, a tremendous novelization of his own Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Happy holidays, and happy reading!Ĭinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino (Harper)

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We have a lot to cover in this, our last roundup of new and recent books on film and pop culture before year’s end-high-profile memoirs, the coolest collection of crossword puzzles in history, a dash of Mac & Me.