Cutting to the chase, this is the most welcome film book of the year - and one of the most fascinating... If anything can bring back long, hard looks at movies, this will.' - Sight and Sound 'Now, 12 years after this great critic's death at the age of 69, we finally have this superbly edited volume, encompassing previously uncollected pieces from 1963 to 1992. It furnishes a richer sense of his wide-ranging career and what made his writing about movies so generative and freewheeling, mixing realist and surrealist critical inclinations, plainspoken yet restlessly insightful.' - Film Comment 'The essential film book of this or almost any year' - Film Krant 'Miller's selection provides both an instructive primer for those new to Durgnat and a satisfying harvest of largely inaccessible or long out-of-print pieces for the already initiated... a colourful tour of the many styles of address and cultural context that Durgnat enthusiastically immersed himself in and explored to the hilt.' - New Review of Film and Television Studies 'Much-needed' - Cineaste