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Nobody's Perfect

Writings from The New Yorker

Writings from The New Yorker

By Anthony Lane

By Anthony Lane

By Anthony Lane

By Anthony Lane

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Sep 09, 2003 | ISBN 9780375714344

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    About Nobody’s Perfect

    Anthony Lane on Con Air—

    “Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.”

    Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County—

    “I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to ask for a paper bag.”

    Anthony Lane on Martha Stewart—

    “Super-skilled, free of fear, the last word in human efficiency, Martha Stewart is the woman who convinced a million Americans that they have the time, the means, the right, and—damn it—the duty to pipe a little squirt of soft cheese into the middle of a snow pea, and to continue piping until there are ‘fifty to sixty’ stuffed peas raring to go.”

    For ten years, Anthony Lane has delighted New Yorker readers with his film reviews, book reviews, and profiles that range from Buster Keaton to Vladimir Nabokov to Ernest Shackleton. Nobody’s Perfect is an unforgettable collection of Lane’s trademark wit, satire, and insight that will satisfy both the long addicted and the not so familiar.

    About Nobody’s Perfect

    Anthony Lane on Con Air—

    “Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.”

    Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County—

    “I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to ask for a paper bag.”

    Anthony Lane on Martha Stewart—

    “Super-skilled, free of fear, the last word in human efficiency, Martha Stewart is the woman who convinced a million Americans that they have the time, the means, the right, and—damn it—the duty to pipe a little squirt of soft cheese into the middle of a snow pea, and to continue piping until there are ‘fifty to sixty’ stuffed peas raring to go.”

    For ten years, Anthony Lane has delighted New Yorker readers with his film reviews, book reviews, and profiles that range from Buster Keaton to Vladimir Nabokov to Ernest Shackleton. Nobody’s Perfect is an unforgettable collection of Lane’s trademark wit, satire, and insight that will satisfy both the long addicted and the not so familiar.

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    About Anthony Lane

    Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. He lives in London.

    About Anthony Lane

    Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. He lives in London.

    Product Details

    Category: Movies & TV | Performing Arts | Essays & Literary Collections

    Paperback | $28.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 09, 2003 | 784 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375714344

    Category: Movies & TV | Performing Arts | Essays & Literary Collections

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 19, 2009 | 784 Pages | ISBN 9780307488879

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    Praise

    “Lane writes the way Fred Astaire danced; his sentences and paragraphs are a sublime, rhythmic concoction of glide and snap, lightness and sting.” –The New York Times Book Review

    “Anthony Lane has energy, wit, taste, learning, and (most signally) elegance of mind.” —Martin Amis

    “A pure pleasure to read.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction

    MOVIES

    Indecent Proposal
    Un Coeur en Hiver
    Sleepless in Seattle
    Poetic Justice
    The Fugitive
    Tito and Me
    The Age of Innocence
    Divertimento
    Dazed and Confused
    It’s All True
    The Remains of the Day
    Three Colors: Blue
    Naked
    Heaven and Earth
    Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould
    The Blue Kite
    Speed
    Wolf
    Forrest Gump
    Pulp Fiction
    The Last Seduction
    Bullets Over Broadway
    Three Colors: Red
    Tom and Viv
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    The Madness of King George
    Before Sunrise
    Shallow Grave
    Priest
    Don Juan DeMarco
    Burnt by the Sun
    Braveheart
    The Bridges of Madison County
    First Knight
    Nine Months
    The Usual Suspects
    Persuasion
    Showgirls
    The Scarlet Letter
    French Twist
    Sgt. Bilko
    Stealing Beauty
    Emma and Kingpin
    Beyond the Clouds
    The English Patient
    Star Trek: First Contact
    Crash
    The Saint
    Con Air
    Men in Black, Batman & Robin, and Speed 2
    Contact
    Mrs. Brown
    L.A. Confidential
    Titanic
    Nil by Mouth
    Lolita
    Twilight
    The Spanish Prisoner
    Deep Impact
    Godzilla
    The Truman Show
    Out of Sight
    The Thief
    Saving Private Ryan
    Halloween H2O
    Ronin
    Love Is the Devil
    Gods and Monsters
    Celebrity
    Meet Joe Black
    Rushmore
    The Thin Red Line
    The Prince of Egypt
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    The Dreamlife of Angels
    The Mummy
    The Phantom Menace
    Notting Hill
    Bowfinger
    West Beirut
    Anywhere but Here
    The World Is not Enough
    Liberty Heights
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    American Psycho
    Gladiator
    Mission: Impossible 2
    Time Regained
    The Nutty Professor 2
    Dancer in the Dark
    The Yards
    Charlie’s Angels
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Snatch
    Hannibal
    Pollock
    Under the Sand
    Pearl Harbor
    Apocalypse Now Redux
    Together

    BOOKS

    Best-sellers I
    Sex Books
    Edward Lear
    Best-sellers II
    Vladimir Nabokov
    Cookbooks
    Cyril Connolly
    Ian Fleming
    T. S. Eliot
    Thomas Pynchon
    Bloom on Shakespeare
    Matthew Arnold
    André Gide
    Evelyn Waugh
    W. G. Sebald
    John Ruskin
    A. E. Housman

    PROFILES

    The Sound of Music
    Eugène Atget
    ˇ Svankmajer
    Karl Lagerfeld
    Buster Keaton
    The Oscars
    Shakespeare on Film
    Cannes
    Lego
    Obituaries
    Preston Sturges
    Robert Bresson
    Ernest Shackleton
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Museum of Sex
    The New Yorker at 75
    Walker Evans
    Astronauts
    Jacques Tati
    Luis Buñuel
    Julia Roberts
    William Klein
    Billy Wilder

    Acknowledgments
    Index

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