There Are No Small Parts: 100 Outstanding Film Performances with Screen Time of 10 Minutes or Less Hardcover – February 22, 2022 by John DiLeo

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Author: DiLeo John

Brand: HTOOHTOOH

Edition: 1

Package Dimensions: 0x0x788

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 22-02-2022

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Most books about screen acting, including one of the author’s (100 GREAT FILM PERFORMANCES YOU SHOULD REMEMBER BUT PROBABLY DON’T), concentrate on major stars and major roles. THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS focuses on the wonders achieved by performers in brief roles, sometimes mere cameos. To watch an actor’s complete delineation of a character in a few minutes is to marvel at his/her talent, concentration, and invention. Each of the 100 performances spotlighted in the book aims to evoke not just each actor’s individual impact but how he/she’s imaginative gifts invigorated (and sometimes even stole) their films. From 1935 to 2019, the text surveys great artists who mastered playing for the camera, seizing moviegoers’ attentions and deserving places of honor for their contributions
Review
“John DiLeo takes us on a captivating waltz through movie historyby focusing on actors in brief roles who made a big impact. Many ofthe 100 movies are well known classics, others obscure, but DiLeomakes you want to see them all and revisit the under-ten-minuteperformances he writes about so compellingly. I am delighted tobe included for my 8 minutes on screen as the bookkeeper in Allthe Presidents Men, and confess to having never been so thoroughlydissected in a part.”
— Jane Alexander
Review
And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies!
“It’s like a Christmas stocking full of surprises. This is the smartest movie quiz book I’ve ever seen.” — Pauline Kael

Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery
“Intriguing…really interesting details…a very entertaining book.” — Robert Osborne ―
Turner Classic Movies

Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies
“A must for movie buffs of both classic and obscure movies…all told in Mr. DiLeo’s witty, clever and perceptive prose.” — John Rowell, Show Business

Ten Movies at a Time: A 350-Film Journey Through Hollywood and America 1930-1970
“…that rare work that I did not want to put down or, more to the point, that I kept picking up and re-reading…you will be entertained, intrigued, challenged.” — James Grissom, author, Follies of God

100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember But Probably Don’t
“John’s keen observations allow us to share the creativity of these artists at their peak, as well as give us a little taste of their feelings of fulfillment in their great performances, individually and collectively. A valuable and touching work.” — Adolph Green, Oscar-nominated screenwriter

Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors
“It’s a movie maven’s dream…intelligent, exhaustive…if you want the dish on a Williams movie, it’s all here.” — Andrew Holleran, The Gay and Lesbian Review
About the Author
John DiLeo’s first book was And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies (St. Martin’s, 1999, revised in 2013), hailed by Pauline Kael as “the smartest movie quiz book I’ve ever seen.” His second book was 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember—But Probably Don’t (Limelight Editions, 2002), which Adolph Green called “a valuable and touching work.” TCM host Robert Osborne said, in the HollywoodReporter, that the book “delightfully throws the spotlight on some remarkable film work,” and the Washington Post’s reaction was, “Not only is this helpful criticism, but 100 Great Film Performances can serve as balm for anyone who has ever been disgruntled by the Academy’s choices on Oscar night.” Turner Classic Movies devoted a night of prime-time programming to films featured in John’s third book, Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery (Hansen Publishing Group, 2007). His fourth film book, Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (Hansen Publishing Group, 2010), led to his presentations and panels at the Tennessee Williams festivals in Provincetown and New Orleans. Show Business called his fifth film book, Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies (Hansen Publishing Group