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Lewis Milestone
218 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1981
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October 28, 2009
I'm afraid i gave up on this book partway through. The author seems to too attached to the auteur theory and genius model, and keeps apologizing that every Milestone film isn't masterpiece and regrets that he had to sometimes work on routine projects. He despises sentimentality and looks for any sign of it to deplore. I wonder if he enjoys movies from that period at all, and certainly has no sympathy for or understanding of the Hollywood system within which Milestone worked. He gives the silents very short shrift (though it's likely he was unable to see them at that time but he could at least say so if that's the case), but also says New York Nights is best treated with the silents instead of as the talkie it is. Was he unable to see it? Or does he just diss it as routine on general principle that it probably wasn't a masterpiece and only All Quiet on the Western Front deserves the honor of his first talkie? I put it down when i realized i wasn't going to learn anything useful about Milestone or his films.
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