Totally, Tenderly, Tragically - by Phillip Lopate (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book collects the best of award-winning essayist Phillip Lopate's pans and praises, criticisms and ruminations of a variety of films, in a book that no cinema fan will want to miss.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The essays in Phillip Lopate's new book record an ardent three-decades-plus love affair with the movies; like Michel Piccoli with Brigitte Bardot in Godard's "Contempt," he is "totally, tenderly, tragically" besotted with the cinema. Artfully braiding emotional and intellectual autobiography with critical and historical commentary, these essays exemplify and record a passionate engagement with an irreplaceable art form, its creators, and its critics. Lopate evaluates those filmmakers who have most affected him since his days as a nascent film cultist at Columbia: Antonioni, Godard, Bresson, Mizoguchi, Fassbinder, Ozu, and Visconti. He celebrates Andrew Sarris as the film critic who first won his heart and provides an eye-opening extended portrait and fondly skeptical critique of Pauline Kael, the most influential film writer of our time. And in essays such as "The Last Taboo: The Dumbing Down of American Movies, " he addresses the elusive question of whether movies can actually think. With his full-hearted affection and bracing intelligence, Phillip Lopate captures, as few others have, the insistent allure of films and filmgoing.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Phillip Lopate</b> is the author of the essay collections <i>Against Joie de Vivre</i>, <i>Bachelorhood</i>, and<i> Portrait of My Body</i>. He has also written the novels <i>The Rug Merchant</i> and <i>Confessions of a Summer</i>. Lopate is the editor of <i>The Art of the Personal Essay</i> and the Library of America's <i>Writing New York</i>, as well as the series editor of <i>The Art of the Essay</i>. His film criticism appears regularly in <i>The New York Times</i> and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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