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Notes from the Dream House is a `best of’ selection of reviews by
the celebrated Observer film critic Philip French. Spanning half
the history of cinema, his reviews cover a great variety of films,
from westerns and gangsters to art movies and musicals – the hits
and the misses, the good, the bad and the ugly. French takes on
films as disparate as The Gospel According to St Matthew and Ted,
The Remains of the Day and Caligula. His reviews are personal,
witty, and sharply perceptive. Time and again he reveals not only
an encyclopaedic knowledge of cinema but also an erudition, an
enthusiasm, and a boundless curiosity. Taken together, they form an
illuminating commen¬tary on modern culture; but above all they are
a distillation of one man’s lifelong love of cinema, a worthy
memorial to one of the most respected and beloved of modern
critics.
In April 1974, 500 million television viewers across Europe
witnessed the bizarrely thrilling sight of four garishly-dressed
unknowns from Sweden storm their way to victory in the Eurovision
Song Contest. The song was 'Waterloo'. Abba had arrived. Over the
next three decades, the band moved on through an almost unbroken
succession of hit albums and singles. Abba have sold some 400
million records around the world, and their songs inspired a
musical which since opening in October 2001 has been seen by more
than 10 million people. In Abba: Unplugged, Karl French, a
journalist and author specialising in popular culture, brings his
inimitable wry perception to bear on the band's whole story. Born
in Sweden, and raised in England, he comes to the subject as
someone with first-hand knowledge of the very particular social and
political climate from which Abba emerged. He has been a fan -
although not necessarily an uncritical one - for three decades.
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