"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Pat Padua bridges high-brow and low-brow to form a distinctive American pan-browism. He hears the voices cry out from the Western Canon to Justin Timberlake, and, with an arsenal of optical tools ranging from disposable message cameras to the sharpest Hassy glass, he coaxes out the voices with a visual acuity akin to shamanism. "A talented, if quirky, photographer," in the words of the Washington Post, Padua has exhibited his photographs in San Francisco and Baltimore, as well as in his home town of Washington DC. His astute criticism of music and cinema has appeared in the All Music Guide and Cinescene.com.
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If Hallmark-commodified emotions are your bag, then this is the book for you. But does anybody really want a 250 page greeting card?
Getting it Right gets it all wrong. See another coming of age movie—if it doesn't have a roman numeral in its title, it's better than this.
An elegy for a dying world, brought to you by junk mail.
A handsome doorstopper of a book to showcase the history of the frames that correct, protect, and decorate our eyes.
It boils down to one word, something that no book can give you, as simple as it is elusive: hype.
The work of an avant-garde filmmaker who can be boring, fascinating, hilarious, and somehow all of these at once.
The world of movie criticism may never again meet as formidable an adversary.
A look at the career of a pair of fashion photographers who thrive on breaking rules.
This pre-code crime melodrama does not rise above the level of a curiosity.
The revolutionary life and work of two great cinematographers.
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