Film critic Richard Schickel looks back on his suburban childhood during World War II, when his love of the movies began, and criticizes the misleading pictures of war, the American government, and the home front that films of the time presented.
"Jason can't believe his luck when he opens the letter from Harmon Holt telling him he'll be interning on a movie set in LA. Even better, it's with one of his favorite horror-movie directors. But it turns out the road to the big time is paved with lots of small-time work. Can Jason check his pride and be part of the team? Can he rise above and seize his opportunity?"--Page 4 of cover.
"After having foiled the arch-nemesis who tried to kill them, identical twins Edgar and Allan Poe travel to New Orleans, where they will play their famous namesake in a feature film--and try not to get killed again"--Provided by publisher.
American beauty 2. Amistad 3. Babe: pig in the city 4. Beyond the sea 5. Chocolat 6. The color purple 7. Crash 8. Dogma 9. Erin Brockovich 10. Final solution 11. The grapes of wrath 12. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone 13. Hotel Rwanda 14. The insider 15. The iron giant 16. Les Miserables 17. The matrix 18. Million dollar baby 19. O brother, where art thou? 20. Pieces of April 21. Road to perdition 22. Shawshank redemption 23. The spitfire grill 24. Tender mercies 25. The thin red line 26. To end all wars 27. Walking across Egypt.
Cinema By the Bay offers an in-depth look at the bay area film business, profiling the studios behind such classics as The Godfather (American Zoetrope), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (The Saul Zaentz Company) and the big daddy--Star Wars (Lucasfilm Ltd).
