Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-Makers in Recent American Cinema (Limelight")

Originally published in 1998 by Prion Books, London. Andrew, film editor of the British magazine Time Out, is an excellent film critic, adept at relaying clearly both his critical notions and the, at times, extremely oblique plots of the films he discusses. Among the directors whose work he examines in-depth are Spike Lee, David Lynch, John Sayles, the Coen brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and perhaps most sensitively, Todd Haynes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)