Totally, Tenderly, Tragically, by Phillip Lopate
Review by Jeffrey M. Anderson
Buy Totally, Tenderly, Tragically, by Phillip Lopate
I had never heard of Lopate when I bought this book, but he's one of
our greatest personal essayists. Like me, he formed a passionate and non-stop
love affair with the movies and began that most noble of sports -- writing
about them. This book collects essays from when Lopate was young and wrote
about the 1963 New York Film Festival, to more recent articles about Jean-Luc
Godard's Contempt (1963) and an interview with great Iranian
director Abbas Kiarostami. It's a bit of a highbrow book, but it's passionate
and insightful at the same time. Lopate has taught himself everything he'll
need to know about going to the movies and he still loves it.
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