Publisher's Synopsis
"The Essential Cinemaphile" is an extensive collection of the most notable output from David Keyes, who has been writing enthusiastically about film since the summer of 1998. Contained in this volume are 250 essays -- several of them revised and expanded from their original source -- about a number of subjects: films themselves, trends, personal experiences, anecdotes, academic studies of important cultural movie landmarks, and never-before-seen insights.