The Press Gang by Godfrey Cheshire - ISBN: 9781609809775
Paperback
A dialogue about cinema’s legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics.

The Press Gang

Writings on Cinema from New York Press 1991 - 2011

  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2020

Summary

A dialogue about cinema’s legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time.A dialogue about cinema’s legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time.Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, inter…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781609809775
ISBN-10:1609809777
Author:Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, Armond White
Publisher:Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint:Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:31 March 2020
Weight:369g
Dimensions:254mm x 206mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Film fans will love this massive compendium of intellectually savvy reviews from the long-defunct New York Press. With great research and effort, editor Colvill has brought together more than 200 long-form film reviews and essays from the “raucous, drunken, snotty and punk rock” NYPress, as former staffer Jim Knipfel describes it in his highly informative introduction… Literate and reflective, these reviews rival those by more famous critics like Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris.” —Kirkus Reviews

About The Author

Godfrey Cheshire

Godfrey Cheshire is an award-winning film critic and filmmaker based in New York City. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Variety, The Village Voice, Film Comment, Cineaste, Sight & Sound, RogerEbert.com and other publications. He is the director of the documentary Moving Midway and author of In the Time of Kiarostami- Writings on Iranian Cinema and Conversations with Kiarostami.Matt Zoller Seitz is the TV critic for New York magazine, the editor-at-large of RogerEbert.com, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the author of The Wes Anderson Collection, The Oliver Stone Experience, Man Men Carousel, Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (with Simon Abrams), and TV- The Book and The Sopranos Sessions (both with Alan Sepinwall).Armond White won the 2014 American Book Award for Anti-Censorship. He is a film critic for National Review and was arts editor for The City Sun, CityArts and reviewer for Out magazine. He is author of The Resistance- Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World, Rebel for the Hell of It- The Art-Life of Tupac Shakur, Keep Moving- The Michael Jackson Chronicles, New Position- The Prince Chronicles and Make Spielberg Great Again.Jim Colvill is a freelance editor and publisher based in New York City. He publishes books on cinema with The Film Desk.

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