A review by blevins
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt

3.0

Short book by Patton Oswalt that delves into his four year film addiction after he moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1990s. My question is this: Only four years? That's weak! I actually thought there would be more film talk in this, but it is slanted toward Oswalt's work as a comic [no surprise since that's what he was at this time, his foray into acting was mostly yet to come]. A lot of his time was spent at the New Beverly and I was hoping there'd be more things about that theatre. I live four blocks from the New Beverly and walk to it when I see something there. When I moved to L.A., my apartment's proximity to the New Beverly was a major selling point for it...and it still is. Later this month I'm going to see THE UNFORGIVEN and HEAT there...maybe catch a double feature of RESERVOIR DOGS + PULP FICTION. So, yeah, I know all about the film addiction that Oswalt writes about in this breezy memoir but I say again, 4 years? That's nothing!