Publisher's Synopsis
BENEATH MULHOLLAND is a stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films - their stars and the illusions they create. David Thomson explores a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality - as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or buried beneath Mulholland Drive, or wandering among us. He writes about James Stewart in VERTIGO, Jack Nicholson in CHINATOWN, Cary Grant, Greta Garbo. He imagines what Tony Manero, as played by John Travolta in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, might have become in real life; what James Dean's career might have been like had he survived. He examines Hollywood's preoccupation with love, sex, death, money and glory. BENEATH MULHOLLAND immeasurably enlarges and enriches our already undying memories of, and pleasure in, the Hollywood movie.
