Ayoade on Top
Categories: Arts & Photography
In Ayoade on Top (2019), comedian and director Richard Ayoade devotes a whole book to View from the Top, the 2003 comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow as a small-town woman who dreams of becoming a flight attendant. His mock-serious, digressive analysis treats the little-remembered film as a masterpiece, parodying the conventions of film criticism. Along the way the book says a good deal about how movies are made, marketed and talked about.
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- Edgar Wright: “'Ayoade On Top' is the most profoundly silly book on film I've ever read and somehow one of the most insightful too.”