This book<\/a> represents another picture book I inherited from my aunt. Not that it meant much to her; she probably bought it at a yard sale to sell on eBay, and I might well have been at the yard sale with her, egging her on.<\/p>\nIt’s a compendium of 100 of the best movies from 1894-1994, as determined by Entertainment Weekly<\/i> and Ty Burr. It contains the requisite mixture of classics and foreign films. Man, you know, the last foreign film I saw was El Mariachi<\/i>, and prior to that it’s limited to Jackie Chan and kung fu flicks. I didn’t even see Crouching Estrogen, Hidden Misandry<\/i> even though my wise and benevolent mother-in-law recommended it.<\/p>\n
But books of this stripe are good browsing material, even if you’re not a tabloid fan or if you don’t care for anything lighter than The Atlantic Monthly<\/i> for your magazine reading. Books like this are quick espresso shots of trivia information, information I hope to put to use at the next North Side Mindflayers Trivia Night victory.<\/p>\n
Plus, if you’re a trivia smart aleck like me, you’ll look for flaws in the book. Like that the cover contains a still from Rebel without a Cause<\/i>, which didn’t make the book. Or that the still of Han Solo confronting Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars<\/i> was not from the original, but from the 25th anniversary re-release (in 1997, which was beyond the five year cutoff of the book).<\/p>\n
So it’s a good enough book, a quick one-night flip through, and it won’t kill as many brain cells as, say, watching the French language liberated sexuality movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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