Stuart Klawans, film critic for The Nation, delights and informs with his new book Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order. It is both a tribute to and an insightful look at those films whose reputations for artistic madness combined with fiscal extravagance preceded them as they worked their way into our hearts. As Klawans writes, "These are movies for people who want to die from too much cinema." Griffith's Intolerance, Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, and of course von Stroheim's Greed, are among the films that "surpass mere grandiosity... filmmaking pushed beyond all rational limits." Publisher's Weekly said, "In its structure and scope, Klawans's tale of film follies is very much like the fairs and festivals that fascinate him-highly ambitious, original, full of disparate ideas, a large cast of characters, and a sense of wonder."