Illustrated guide from the 1950s on to 'Apocalypse Now', giving forgotten films some deserved attention, and dismantling others that won Academy awards; a thumping punch in the gut for Hollywood from a writer who went on to pen novels, screen plays, columns for 'The Guardian', and a virtuosic translation of Georges Perec's book 'La Disparition' (like the original, the entire translation omitted the letter E), whose work shone 'like sparklers in the autumn gloom'.
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