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Totally, Tenderly, Tragically
by Phillip Lopate
May 26, 2025 - May 27, 2025 (film-criticism, essay-collections)

Lopate, P. (1998). Totally, Tenderly, Tragically. Anchor.


Anchor, 1998. 400 pages. Paperback. 9780385492508

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p.274
brio »
(noun) brilliance, panache, quality of being acti…
p.265
somnambular »
to walk or perform another act while asleep or in…
p.238
vituperation »
(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnat…
p.224
encomium »
a speech or piece of writing that praises someone…
p.188
meretricious »
(adjective) of or relating to a prostitute; havin…
p.275
a self-cannibalization of cinema by the media
Thierry Jousse, editor of Cahiers du Cinema, wrot…
p.240
you want to be a film critic
One ex-Kaelite willing to talk on the record was …
p.202
a frightening emptiness dogs these films
The original title of Divided Loyalties was Indus…
p.196
the filmmaker was in love with the world
And the films themselves were sexy. I don't mean …
p.193
the absence of an artistic will
[...] it is Dreyer who eloquently lamented the ab…

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