The Essential Raymond Durgnat

Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) was one of the best-regarded film critics of his time. A maverick voice in the golden age of film culture, his work appeared in every significant film publication in Britain and the USA. Thoroughly introduced and annotated, this career-spanning collection brings together his essential writing for the very first time.

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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

Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002) was a film critic and author of many groundbreaking books on cinema, including Films and Feelings (1967), A Mirror for England (1970; 2011), and The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974).

Henry K. Miller is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and has taught film at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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