Walker Percy

Tarantino’s films expose the Binx Bolling in us all, restless until we have a tidy border of cultural reference within which we can claim our stake. Most of his intricately scripted and arranged films are hardwired into the idea that his audience has nostalgic connections to all the bits of media history he is tossing out at us.

My usual approach to internet memes is to duck and let them blow over. But “Reading the Movies” swept me into nostalgic list-making, to give honor to the books which were the most influential in my development as a film watcher, writer and programmer. Well, they’re not all books, but they DO involve words about pictures…