Cinema Speculation

I’m not a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino’s films, but I always love to listen to him talk about movies. His enthusiasm just bubbles out and this book is written with all his trademark motor-mouth gusto. It zips along.

Reading it is like sitting with a friend who loves movies as much as you do and talking about your favourites. In this case, films from the 70s. But not the heavyweight Oscar winners. Not the ones the critics heaped their praises on. No The Conformist. No Cries and Whispers. No Nashville or Aguirre: Wrath of God, or McCabe and Mrs Miller. Not even All the Presidents’ Men.

No, what we have here are loving, passionate discussions of, among others, Rolling Thunder, Dirty Harry, The Getaway  and Escape from Alcatraz. But most particularly a film I love and which I first saw on a double bill with Westworld in 1974: The Outfit. In fact, the moment I flipped through the pages and found a whole chapter devoted to this nifty little gangster movie, that was it. I was sold. I bought the book without a second’s hesitation.

So if any of the films in the paragraph above strike a chord in you, don’t hesitate. Buy this book at once and settle in for hours of fun.