Once upon a time, going to the movies was a special occasion, and you had no control over what was playing at your neighborhood cinema. But today films are like fashion, furniture, and food: you can choose what to enjoy. Movies finally fit into our schedules.
So here is the first movie guide tailored to the way we actually watch movies. Whether it’s Halloween, the brink of baseball’s Opening Day, or a Saturday evening with no babysitter; whether you’re bracing for a business trip, feeling nostalgic for the 1960s, or simply in need of a dose of optimism (or apocalypse), Flickipedia will steer you to over 1,300 films that will fit your movie-viewing appetite perfectly.
Entertaining as well as informative, Flickipedia recommends many movies that you may not be familiar with, while acknowledging the tried-and-true standbys and popular classics. Every step in life provokes different emotions, and Flickipedia is here with suggestions to cover the waterfront.
"Great fun for any movie lover. I'm proud to add this entertaining read to my personal reference shelf." —Richard Roeper, cohost, Ebert & Roeper
"Easily the most useful movies-to-rent guide I've ever come across." —Luc Sante, author, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and Low Life
"Easily organized and briskly written. One for any indecisive cineaste's bookshelf." —Oklahoma Gazette
"An addictive, perceptive DVD guide." —Play
"Entertaining and unique." —Bozeman Daily Chronicle
About the Author
Michael Atkinson is the author of Blue Velvet, a study of the David Lynch film, and Ghosts in the Machine: The Dark Heart of Pop Cinema. He has written on film for Detour, Film Comment, Gear, The Guardian, Interview, Movieline, Sight & Sound, Spin, Swing, The Village Voice, and many other publications. His first volume of poetry, One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train, won the 2001 Washington Prize. His wife, Laurel Shifrin, is an opinionated movie fan, database manager, and mother.
Son of Sayville, New York, Michael Atkinson is the author of seven books, including a debut novel, HEMINGWAY DEADLIGHTS (St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books, 2009), and the second in its series, HEMINGWAY CUTTHROAT, coming in 2010.
He is a longtime film and culture critic, Googleable at Sight & Sound, The Boston Phoenix, The Guardian, The Believer, Moving Image Source, Modern Painters, IFC.com, TCM.com, Film Comment, The Village Voice, The Forward, Chicago Reader, The Progressive, In These Times, The Stranger, The American Prospect, Movieline (Hollywood Life), poetryfoundation.org, GOOD, Maxim, Details, Detour, Hollywood Life, Greencine.com, The Criterion Collection, Philadelphia City Paper, etc.
Other books include FLICKIPEDIA: Perfect Movies for Every Occasion, Holiday, Season, Mood, Ordeal and Whim (Chicago Review Press), EXILE CINEMA: Filmmakers At Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press), GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Eds.) and BLUE VELVET (British Film Institute).
He is also a widely published poet, with the debut collection ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Word Works), and poems recently Michigan Quarterly Review, Zone 3, Mudfish, Phoebe, Passages North, Cimarron Review, Rhino, Carolina Quarterly and New Letters.
He is a professor of film at C.W. Post/Long Island University, a father of three, a (dormant) member of the New York Film Critics Circle, and a screenwriter, of among other things, a notorious TV pilot, BABYLON FIELDS (CBS), starring Amber Tamblyn, Ray Stevenson, Jamey Sheridan and Kathy Baker, unaired but easily found online.
His author site is www.mike-atkinson.com, and his blog resides at www.zeroforconduct.com.
This review is from: Flickipedia: Perfect Films for Every Occasion, Holiday, Mood, Ordeal, and Whim (Paperback)
No more watching just "It's a Wonderful Life" at Christmas, or "Pride of the Yankees" at Opening Day, this book is structured by the situations or occasions FOR which you'd rent or watch a movie. And it's got everything, from holidays to life events to one-off events like sick days and prepping for tropical vacations. A terrific idea whose time has come.
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World War, New York, Hong Kong, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen, Cold War, San Francisco, Cary Grant, Tom Hanks, Warren Beatty, Preston Sturges, Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, United States, Richard Linklater, New Wave, Little Rascals, Robert De Niro, Bill Murray, Valentine's Day, Tim Burton, Isabelle Huppert, Clint Eastwood, John Cassavetes
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