BOOK 250: CINEMA SPECULATION: QUENTIN TARANTINO
BOOK 250: CINEMA SPECULATION: QUENTIN TARANTINO
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.
(From Goodreads)
MY VERDICT: I read this book because I bought it for someone who already had it and kept it. I wasn’t not looking forward to reading it but somehow I knew it wasn’t for me. I am a huge film fan. I am a fan of Tarantino’s films. Pulp Fiction is probably in my top 10. But I knew that Tarantino and I do not have the same taste and interest in films and this book confirmed it. I hadn’t seen some of the films he mentions. And when I did I didn’t feel the way he did about them. And the thing that maybe surprised me the most is that I didn’t read the book with his voice in mind despite his very specific way of talking. I’m not saying this book is bad, it just wasn’t for me and I think I read it reluctantly so it took me a while. If you love films from the 70s especially then you’ll probably enjoy this more than I did.
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