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The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
by
Jay Carr
People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays—most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee—name organization embracing some o...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
January 4th 2002
by Da Capo Press
(first published January 1st 2002)
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I don't pay much attention to film critics since, to paraphrase, "a classic is in the eye of the beholder".....but this book does a pretty good job of listing/discussing the essential films from silents to the early 21st century. The films are not limited to those made in the US and some of the wonderful Japanese and German masterpieces which are familiar to the lover of film are included. I disagreed with a few of the entries and felt that some groundbreaking films were omitted but, again, it i...more
Predictably uneven - though it was interesting to see what felt like a pretty clear hierarchy of film critics: the best writers (Rob Nelson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Roger Ebert) are all Mid-western critics, the New York critics not so good, and Kevin Thomas from the LA Times coming in a dreadful worst.
The list itself was intriguing (though too heavily American; plus Diner?!? Star Wars?!? some of the selections were just silly).
Worth flipping through for the good essays (Those mid-western critic...more
The list itself was intriguing (though too heavily American; plus Diner?!? Star Wars?!? some of the selections were just silly).
Worth flipping through for the good essays (Those mid-western critic...more
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