{"title":"J. M. Tyree","description":"Michael McGriff's books include Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection; Dismantling the Hills; a translation of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010); and an edition of David Wevill's essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his work has been recognized with a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. J. M. Tyree is the author of BFI Film Classics: Salesman, and the coauthor, with Ben Walters, of BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski, from the British Film Institute. His writing on cinema has been published in Sight \u0026amp; Sound, The Believer, and Film Quarterly. A former Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, he currently works as an associate editor of New England Review.","products":[{"product_id":"our-secret-life-in-the-movies-paperback","title":"Our Secret Life in the Movies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA whip-smart fiction debut, Our Secret Life in the Movies riffs on classic and cult cinema. Inspired by films from silent-era documentaries to music videos, the authors unfold a dual narrative about two boys growing up in the 1980s. Coming of age during the last days of the Cold War, these boys dream of space exploration and nuclear winter, Reaganomics and Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons, Blade Runner and Red Dawn. Haunting, cinematic, and full of life, Our Secret Life makes it clear that we are in the movies and the movies are in us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370228580575,"sku":"9780989275965","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Rs0aM9MyhG9780989275965.webp?v=1789153682"},{"product_id":"the-big-lebowski-paperback-1","title":"The Big Lebowski - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthan and Joel Coen's \u003ci\u003eThe Big Lebowski \u003c\/i\u003ewas released in 1998 to general bafflement. A decade on, it had become a cult classic and remains so over 20 years later, inspiring a thriving circuit of 'Lebowski Fests' during which costumed devotees gather at bowling alleys and guzzle White Russians. Beyond its superabundance of deliciously quotable lines, how has the movie inspired such remarkable affection? And why does its critical stock continue to rise?\u003cbr\u003eThe film's unlikely anchor is Jeff Bridges' career-best performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a fully-baked 1960s radical turned Venice Beach drop-out known to his friends as 'the Dude'. Mistaken for an identically-named grandee whose young trophy wife is in trouble, the Dude finds himself embroiled in an impossibly convoluted kidnap plot involving pornographers, nihilists and threats to his 'johnson'. Worst of all, it conflicts with his bowling commitments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn part an irreverent pastiche of Raymond Chandler's \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e (as filmed by Howard Hawks), \u003ci\u003eThe Big Lebowski\u003c\/i\u003e is also a jukebox of film history, littered with playful references to everything from Hitchcock and Altman to Busby Berkeley. This riot of addled quotations reflects the film's Los Angeles setting, a discombobulated world inhabited by flakes, phonies and poseurs with put-on identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike many Coen films, the movie plays havoc with the conventions of the crime genre and the absurdities of classical American 'heroism'. But it's also that rare thing: a comedy that gets richer, funnier and more affecting with each viewing. Beneath its breakneck pacing and foul-mouthed ribaldry, the Dude's story offers disarmingly humane lessons in the value of simple things: friendship, laughter and bowling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn their foreword to this new edition, the authors reflect on \u003ci\u003eLebowski\u003c\/i\u003e's cult status and its contemporary resonances as a film about gentle non-conformity and friendship in an increasingly polarized world. The new edition also includes an interview with the Coens, revealing the origins of the name 'Jeffrey Lebowski'.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51386456539359,"sku":"9781838719609","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SXUr-IW92B9781838719609.webp?v=1789358433"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/j-m-tyree.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}