Collected Reviews
Published on 26. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-85754-899-0 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of reviews by Philip French, a leading authority on cinema and the Observer's film critic.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Westerns by Philip French: 'I envy Philip French his erudition - even more, the ease, style and wit with which he sustains it through his new book, Westerns...Reading this book is like panning for gold in a lively current and never failing to come up with nuggets.' - Alexander Walker, Evening Standard. 'Philip French's study Westerns must be the definitive so far on that endlessly productive cinema genre.' - Margaret Hinxman, The Sunday Telegraph. 'Mr French has done a dazzling job...a generally brilliant and enterprising series of shots at rehabilitating and respectabilising the Western.' - John Coleman, New Statesman.More details
Person
Philip French was born in Liverpool in 1933. After serving with the Parachute Regiment in the Middle East he read law at Oxford, where he edited 'The Isis', and studied journalism at Indiana University. He was a senior producer for BBC radio from 1959 to 1990, and has been The Observer's film critic since 1978. He has written regularly for numerous newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, London Magazine, The Times, the New Statesman, The Spectator and Sight & Sound. His books as author or editor include 'Age of Austerity 1945-51' (1963), 'The Movie Moguls' (1969), 'Three Honest Men: Edmund Wilson, F.R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling' (1980), 'Malle on Malle' (1992), 'The Faber Book of Movie Verse' (1993), 'Wild Strawberries' (1995) and 'Cult Movies' (1999). Philip French was a member of the jury at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and a Booker Prize judge in 1988.