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| AUTHOR: | Terrence Rafferty |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Grove Pr |
| ISBN: | 0802114857 |
| TYPE: | Film - Guides & Reviews, Motion Pictures (General), Motion picture producers and d, Motion picture producers and directors, Motion pictures, Plays, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, Reviews, United States |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of The Thing Happens: Ten Years of Writing About the Movies
great book of film criticism Rafferty's New Yorker pieces make great reading for anyone who has been watching movies for the last twenty-odd years. The book consists of many reviews of films, plus a few essays on directors.
Rafferty tends to be a bit less vivacious than Anthony Lane (my New Yorker critic of choice) and less idiosyncratic than Pauline Kael. He has an exceedingly level head for cinema, though, and a knack for writing about it in a clear way.
Stylish writing
Although Terrence Rafferty is obviously indebted to Pauline Kael -- they both share, in addition to a mystifying regard for Brian De Palma, a snappy, conversational style -- his prose is a smoother, and his opinions, while always delivered forthrightly, are a little less kinky than Kael's. I think this is an excellent collection of film criticism and appreciation. The long essay on Renoir's 'Rules of the Game' is first rate, and his overviews of several prominent director's careers are right on the money. Anyone who enjoys Pauline Kael will find much to admire in the writing of Terrence Rafferty. When can we have more of his work, especially the first-rate stuff he's doing for GQ now?