Ayoade on top : a voyage (through a film) in a book (about a journey)
2020
Book
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you've waited for the smaller (trade paperback) edition. Ayoade argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece, a film that celebrates capitalism in all its victimless glory; one we might imagine Donald Trump himself half-watching on his private jet's gold-plated flat screen while his other puffy eye scans the cabin for fresh, young prey."
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780571339143
- 9780571339136
- 057133914X
- 0571339131
Description: 229 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
- Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary.
- Originally published: 2019.
- Includes filmography (page 220) and index.
LCCN: 2019452342
Control Number: 3242643
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2020.