| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-01-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 239 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
In Short Orders, politically radical and socially aware film critic Jonathan Romney collects selected film reviews and articles from the New Stateman and Society, Sight & Sound, The Guardian and elsewhere. Romney visits art houses, mulitiplexes, and everything in between to chronicle the end of cinema's first century, Hollywood's entry into the digital age, and the dying reign of the "real" on screen. Filmmakers discussed include: Abel Ferrera, Ridley Scott, Brad Silberling, Michael Bay, Bernardo Bertolucci, Warren Beatty, James Ivory, Louis Malle, Sally Potter, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and more.
Industry Reviews
"To state the obvious first: Crimson Tide is a submarine movie, and therefore entirely about penises." Although that's the funniest single line in this collection of pieces written for the Guardian and a variety of other British film publications between 1990 and 1996, it only half-summarizes Romney's virtues. The kind of critic who views his work less as a chance to show off than as an opportunity to invite readers into a discussion of broader concerns the future of cinema, film as art, the ways technology is changing moviemaking Romney watches everything from Jurassic Park to Estonian animation without a hint of snobbery. He assimilates difficult theoretical work as effortlessly as he drops pop-cultural references: "now, however, so much theory seems to be taken for granted that the most intelligent horror films could have been assembled by marketing executives with Freud in one pocket and Fangoria magazine in the other." Most important, like Pauline Kael at her best, Romney rises to meet aesthetic excellence but also understands the satisfactions of explosions and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Stimulating and politically acute, his criticism will send readers to the video store to seek out even the films he dislikes, watch, and decide for themselves. (Jan.)
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