First published in 1997 by the British Film Institute. Second edition published in 1998; revised second edition published in 2003. This edition published in 2020 by Bloomsbury on behalf of the British Film Institute.
The hilarious memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar - 'Wonderful...terrific...hit me right between the eyes' STEPHEN FRY
'The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry
A visually stunning and heartfelt riposte to the emotional sterility of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull's eco-themed Silent Running (1972) became one of the defining science-fiction films of the seventies.
"In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode took us into the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex, by contrast, takes us"
Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as he's shot at in Hollywood while interviewing Bavarian director Werner Herzog, cheer as he gets thrown out of the Cannes film festival for heckling in very bad French, and cringe as he's handbagged by Helen Mirren at London's glitzy BAFTA Awards.
Traces the history of The Shawshank Redemption, originally a low-key prison movie, from the pages of Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption to the screens on which it became a phenomenon, as well as exploring the near-religious fervour that the film inspires in its devoted fans. schovat popis