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The Life and Times of EustaceDeCompte:FilmDirector
A Memoir
With a foreword from eminent film critic
Traorie Duines
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1994 Revised EditionA Novel by Peter Ridgard
Selected Criticism Of Eustace DeCompte’s Work “Eustace DeCompte is a vain-glorious lout…the ilk of film-maker who continually practices his Oscar winning speech in front of the mirror…this incredulous boob will be lucky to get within a mile of the coveted statuettes.”Jospeh Nye,
The Irish Sunday Times
“Nothing in the vast, yet depressing, canon of DeCompte’s work indicates he has anyredeemable qualities as a director, writer, or indeed, human-being.”Robert Carol-Oates,
New York Times
“DeCompte belongs to a very specific category of film-maker; the failed pornographer.”Jeffrey Cavendish,
London Book review
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“The work of a diseased brain, the dribble of the semi-comatose… disgusting, vile, putrid…like a languorously painful labour…expletives cannot do this man any kindof justice…why do executives keep giving this man sack-loads of money to churn outreel after reel of cinematic faeces?Sabrina Molhoney-Jones,
Independent On Sunday
“A good film!”Paul Jones,
Mirror On Sunday
The Life and Times of Eustace DeCompte: Film Director Foreword by Traorie Duines
“Eustace DeCompte’s career has been a series of poor decisions, followed bydisastrous ones” Hilary Carmen-Graywack, The Times 1975
It is indeed an honour and a privilege to have been asked to compose the openingwords of this long awaited publication. The teeming genre of celebrity biographieshas been sporting a gaping hole that will be filled perfectly by the inclusion of thisvolume. A book of the life of a luminary such as Eustace DeCompte has been a longtime arriving and it is no small miracle that is has been scribed by the Great Manhimself.As a film critic of distinction, it has been my job to keep watch over all walksof cinematic talent from all eras. I have built up a vast catalogue of films and find nogreater pleasure than trawling through the history of the subject in a never-ending3
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