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Originally penned for "The Washington Post," Hunter's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays on the movies are gathered for this collection, organized by genre, that pays homage to the lost art of filmmaking--when movies were meant to be fun.

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic and New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter comes a brilliant, freewheeling, and witty look at the movies.Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater--the Valencia. This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's misspent youth. Instead of going to school, picking up girls, or tossing a football, Hunter could be found sitting in the fifteenth row, right-hand aisle seat of the Valencia, sating himself on one B-list movie after another. The Valencia had a sticky floor, smelly bathrooms, ancient popcorn, and a screen set in a hideously tacky papier-mache castle wall. It was also the only place in town to see westerns, sci-fi pictures, cops 'n' robbers flicks, slapstick comedy, and Godzilla. In Now Playing at the Valencia, the bestselling thriller author Stephen Hunter has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the '50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.

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  • Title Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies
  • Author Stephen Hunter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-11-02
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780743261258 / 0743261259
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.2 x 0.84 in (23.27 x 15.75 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005050008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2005, Page 19
  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/2005, Page 147
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2005, Page 1013
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/15/2005, Page 45

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Stephen Hunter is creator of the Bob Lee Swagger novels as well as many others. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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