Shots in the Dark collects all of novelist and critic Jonathan Baumbach’s writings on film together for the first time.moreIncludes major essays on directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni,…

Shots in the Dark collects all of novelist and critic Jonathan Baumbach’s writings on film together for the first time.moreIncludes major essays on directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, Brian De Palma and Robert Bresson, an autobiographical reflection on how his cinephilia has influenced his writing, a set visit to the debut film directed by his son Noah Baumbach, a consideration of fellow critic Pauline Kael, and a film-inspired poem written toward the end of his life.