Silver Screen Fiend

Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film Hardcover – January 6, 2015

Author: Visit Amazon’s Patton Oswalt Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1451673213 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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• Hardcover: 240 pages


• Publisher: Scribner (January 6, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1451673213


• ISBN-13: 978-1451673210


• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches


• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)


• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  
  • #2 in Books > Humor & entertainment > Movies > History & Criticism
  
  
  • #3 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Pop Culture > General
  
  
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It is not unusual for a celebrity to produce a tell-all memoir about his or her embarrassing, crippling addictions, and in his new memoir actor-comedian Patton Oswalt has confessed his own.

Not to drugs or alcohol. Oswalt’s fine with those. No, his drug-of-choice was on 35mm film, projected on a 72-foot screen, night after night.

In “Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film,” Oswalt’s second book, he details the four years he spent compulsively watching over 250 movies while writing for “MADtv” during the day and working as a standup comedian at night.

Those were movies in a theater, mind you. He also watched movies on TV but those didn’t count. Nor did any movie where he missed the first 5 minutes, because that’s not how compulsion works.

In the early 90s Oswalt frequented the New Beverly theater in L.A. which featured an eclectic run of classic movies on film, as God intended. After a double-bill of “Sunset Boulevard” and “Ace in the Hole” one night he went home and looked them up in the five massive books on movies he owned, and he checked them off and added the date and the theater name and by that point it was all over. Once you start making checkmarks in a list your downward-spiralling obsession is pretty much guaranteed. Like a baseball player growing out his beard or a poker player with lucky socks, he knew, he knew that if he watched all the movies on his list and absorbed the lessons they had to teach he’d ultimately become a great director.

As he wrote in the forward to the book, “This will be either the most interesting or the most boring addiction memoir you’ve ever read.”

Fortunately Oswalt is funny and he nails his target — himself — with easy, self-effacing wit.

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