Description: Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, the first New York Film Festival to the most recent, Phillip Lopate has applied some of his most incisive commentary to the subject. Here in one place are the very best of these essays, including "Fourteen Koans by a Levite on Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ", "The Last Taboo: The Dumbing Down of American Movies", and "Was It a Montage for You, Too, Dear?" Funny, insightful, and edifying, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically is a must-read for anyone who loves movies.

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