Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino's 2022 book combining memoir with film criticism — examining the 1970s American cinema that shaped him (Dirty Harry, Deliverance, Bullitt, etc.) — and making the case that this was the greatest era in American film.

Provides the most vivid available account of what obsessive self-education through media consumption actually feels like from the inside — Tarantino describes not just what films he loved but why, making it a manual for developing taste through immersive consumption.