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Cinema Speculation

Cinema Speculation

by Quentin Tarantino

HarperCollins ·2022 ·391 pages ·Criticism
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The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans—and all movie lovers—could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.


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"With this collection, Tarantino offers well-researched love letters to his favorite movies of one of Hollywood's most ambitious eras .."

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"His screenplays are also muscular acts of film criticism and revisionist history ..."

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"His passionate knowledge of movies and TV is amazing and slightly terrifying."

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"Dynamic film commentary from a contemporary legend that is essential reading for cinephiles."

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"a brilliant and passionate take on the 1960s and '70s films that shaped him ..."

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"Cinema Speculation is, at minimum, a whole lot of fun."

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