The movie High Fidelity is sacred ground for music lovers and cinephiles alike. The story of Rob Gordon and his coterie of vinyl snobs made it cool to let your geek flag fly and embrace your irrational enthusiasm. In Top Five, journalist Andrew Buss offers a rollicking oral history of the making of the film and its continued influence on popular culture. Usually, when a book that is as universally praised as Nick Hornby’s original novel, a film adaptation is a tricky thing. Top Five examines the difficulties that went into making it: although the book was set in London, the screenwriting...
The movie High Fidelity is sacred ground for music lovers and cinephiles alike. The story of Rob Gordon and his coterie of vinyl snobs made it cool to...