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Cinema Speculation
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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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"I'm tempted to file Cinema Speculation as a paraphrased remake itself – an extended extrapolation of its author's film-making day job."
"The keynote is cheerful, resounding certainty."
"In some of the most intriguing passages, he remembers the responses of movie-theater audiences when he was young, especially in Black neighborhoods, where he accompanied Floyd Ray Wilson, a thirtysomething cinephile who showed him the screenplays he was writing ..."
"Curiously, though, he makes some rookie errors."
"Cinema Speculation is, at minimum, a whole lot of fun."
"Whether you agree with his assessments or not, he provides the original reporting and insights only a veteran director would notice, and his engaging style makes it impossible to leave an essay without learning something ..."
"His genre and exploitation film roots are never far from view, but his holistic appreciation of cinema as an art form is front and center."
"His screenplays are also muscular acts of film criticism and revisionist history ..."
"a brilliant and passionate take on the 1960s and '70s films that shaped him ..."
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