Admit One : My Life in Film (Edition 2) (Hardcover)

from LiteraryFeline

"Celluloid is about dreams, movies are about fantasy, and motion pictures are about things you couldn't possibly even imagine in your wildest dreams, brought vividly to life in front of your eyes. Cinema is about capturing the good and bad things that are pivotal in people's life." [pg. xv] Admit...

from CBJames

What are the key movies in your life? Perhaps not your favorite movies, but the movies that stand out as important moments in your personal history, the ones the represent significant periods of time or events or people in your past? Actor Emmett James uses this question to frame each chapter of ...

from ajpohren

Grab a big bag of popcorn and settle in for an adventure ripe with humor, drama and a sprinkle of adolescent spice. Admit One is a memoir beginning with Emmett's first movie/cinema experience in his hometown of Crydon, South England. From here, Emmett's life is forever changed and his love of the...

from thetometraveller

Emmett James has been in love with movies his whole life. He grew up in a nondescript London suburb where, to him, things seemed very ordinary, even boring. He can remember his first movie at the age of about three, Walt Disney's The Jungle Book, which he largely slept through. The beginning and ...

from NeedMoreShelves

Emmett James has always loved the movies. From his childhood, sharing precious time with his family, to his first visit without an adult, to his aborted attempt to cop a feel, Emmett's memories all involve the movies. When he told his dad he wanted to be an actor, his dad told him to be sure to h...