glorious technicolor francine stock | review an ambitious attempt write personal history cinema intelligent rarely gorky major writer record impressions cinema wrote local newspaper day seeing lumiere brothers nizhny novgorod 1896 night i kingdom shadows knew strange … i aumonts saw lumieres cinematographe – moving photography extraordinary impression creates unique complex i doubt ability nuances years later rudyard kipling wrote mrs bathurst significant work fiction inspired movies mysteriously haunting tale sailor driven death brief newsreel obsessively views cape town new medium power disturb fascinate generate vast sums stock bbc tv current affairs reporter presenter radio 4s the film programme taken hugely ambitious project historical survey movies flickerings 1890s year calls borrowing title martin scorseses film centenary documentary book personal journey narrows focus saying books central idea arose discussions producer the film programme stephen hughes named title page cover searched luck writing way cinema intersects distinguish separately life endlessly fascinating aspect cinemas historyin event deeply personal book passing remarks stocks life rarely revealing watching chinatown age 16 guildford day ira pub bombings october 1974 annual family outings the lord rings trilogy children consider bildungsroman little idiosyncratic choice films flickers illustrated celebration 100 years cinema gilbert adair wrote brief scintillating essays film year 1895 workers leaving lumiere factory 1994 tim burtons ed wood stock takes films decade 1910s 2000s 30 pictures number shown nowadays average month london critics chapter begins words character decade discursive discussions chosen films intelligent rarely perfunctory couple decades deals cinema psychopathology changing perceptions world start gold diggers 1933 slip gracie fields batman end meryl streep record breakingly successful mamma stephen hughes i believe mistaken believing influence films everyday life gone unexplored borne bibliography books include robert sklars movie america endless personal accounts moviegoing written past 30 years memoirs fairly recent development 1970s formidable american literary critic diana trilling told early career patriotic hollywood b movie called joe smith american released shortly pearl harbor reduced tears went straight william phillips editor prestigious quarterly partisan review suggested writing experience diana told sternly thats kind thing discuss mother write partisan reviewa major change public taste occur 1960s spearheaded susan sontag brought pop art merging highbrow lowbrow cultures auteurism postmodernism ones response films like joe smith american precisely wrote partisan review explains moviegoing memoirs ranging labour mp gerald kaufmans my life silver screen gore vidals screening history works current british film critics like john walsh antonia quirke mark kermodeit explains canon classic pictures established internationally 30s 40s critics film historians including paul rotha roger manvell britain maurice bardeche robert brasillach france suddenly set aside creating kind void stock seeks in glorious technicolor features dust jacket picture erich stroheim crazy norma desmonds chauffeur sunset boulevard reference text greatest directors silent references james cameron moviemaker account like sit stage watching audience 3d goggles transfixed enjoy book nuggets information recent cinematic developments mined stock does repeat canard clark gable catastrophic effect underwear industry depression appeared vest it happened night makes coining valuable new word proof copy book refers fashionably deranged vision photagonist cronenbergs spider sadly changed protagonist corrected version