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As New A history and theory of going too far, Film Follies examines those rare pictures that are both cinematic landmarks and monuments to a director s hybris, from Griffith s Intolerance through to Coppola s Apocalypse Now and Carax s Les Amants du Pont-Neuf . Seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, fantastic architecture and the haphazard structure of a musical revue: such are the landmarks of those improbably great (and greatly improbable) films Klawans calls follies >

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Stuart Klawans was born on October 17, 1950 in Chicago, IL. Education: Yale, B.A. in English Literature, 1971. Expelled for helping to hold hostage the university business administrator, 1970. Besides writing a regular column for The Nation and the New York Daily News ( Museums ), Klawans has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement ( American Notes column), NPR (commentaries on Fresh Air), The Village Voice, Grand Street, Threepenny Review, Entertainment Weekly, WBAI (film reviews on Soundtrack ), the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times (once). He is represented in several anthologies, including The Best American Essays 1990 (Ticknor & Fields), edited by Justin Kaplan and Robert Atwan; Seeing Through Movies (Pantheon, 1990), edited by Mark Crispin Miller; and Foreign Affairs (Mercury House, 1991), edited by Kathy Schulz Huffins for the National Society of Film Critics. Klawans is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, and was a member of the selection committee for the New York Film Festival from 1992-95. Awards and honors: Arrested for trespass, Shoreham Nuclear Installation, 1979. Klawans's book Film Follies was nominated for a 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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