Totally Tenderly Tragically

Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia he organized the school's first film society. Later he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And over the past twenty-five years tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here in one place are the very best of these essays a joy for anyone who loves movies.