FILMS IN REVIEW,(From 1959 & 1960) My Meteoric Rise and Fall as a Film Critic by Hugh Aaron - Daring and irreverent reviews written when the author was young. Published for nearly thirteen months in a local weekly newspaper, they ceased being published due to an astounding event explained in the Afterward. This collection of twenty-seven reviews exists for the sole purpose of giving the reader delight. They contain a refreshing intimacy. One has the feeling that the reader is ever present in the reviewer's mind. A partial list of reviews: The 400 Blows, Room at the Top, South Pacific, The Mouse that Roared, The Nun's Story, On the Beach, Grand Illusion. Read more about this book |