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A unique cocktail of personal memoir cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino

The longawaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a deliriously entertaining wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino

In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films

Now with CINEMA SPECULATION the time has come and the results are everything his passionate fans and all movie lovers could have hoped for

Organized around key American films from the 1970s all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining

At once film criticism film theory a feat of reporting and wonderful personal history it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QTs and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever