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It's been a long time since I've come across a set of lists quite so piquant and entertaining as Ten Bad Dates With De Niro. -Louis Bayard, Salon (CriticOs Pick) What are the Top Ten movies for making cigarettes look cool? Do good films ever win the Oscar? What is film's most tragic farewell, greatest opening-credit sequence, grisliest murder, loosest screen adaptation, most gratuitous use of sex and violence? How do you make a great movie without a movie camera? And why do Robert De Niro's characters behave so badly to women? Born of the cinephile's well-known love of lists, Ten Bad Dates with DeNiro is a symposium and celebration of viewing pleasures, private passions, and cinematic lost causes. Contributors include a fine cast of critics, filmmakers, and writers ranging from Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers to Andrew O'Hagan and George Pelecanos.

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A stimulating, necessary volume-and virtually alone among cinematic studies in the wit of its arguments and the seductiveness of its style. -Richard Schickel, Los Angeles Times <br> Addictive... -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Richard T. Kelly is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. His books include Sean Penn: His Life and Times, The Name of this Book is Dogme 95, a study of the Danish film movement cofounded by Lars von Trier, Alan Clarke, and the novel Crusaders. He lives in London.

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