Hammer Glamour
Hammer Glamour, a coffee table book from 2009 by Marcus Hearn, is ostensibly a collection of promotional photographs of Hammer Horror starlets. Every major female star is profiled in alphabetical… Read more »
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
I first encountered Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls at a friend’s house in high school (probably between 2005 and 2007). We had just finished swimming and were relaxing poolside… Read more »
Ishaghpour & Godard
“Looking at Histoire(s) du cinéma, the first chapter especially, I got the impression there had been three major events in the twentieth century: the Russian revolution, Nazism, and cinema, particularly… Read more »
I, Fatty
There is no shortage of biographies and memoirs of the men and women who have shaped the cinema. Ray Carney’s work on John Cassavetes is exhaustive and all encompassing, Richard… Read more »
Roman Poems
Pier Paolo Pasolini occupies a unique place in 20th century Italian art; he was both a filmmaker and a painter, but foremost he was a poet. When he rarely appeared… Read more »
Emotion Pictures
Wim Wenders’ book Emotion Pictures (published in Germany in 1986) is an anthology of both his previously unpublished writings and his work for Filmkritik, written between 1968 and 1971. Like… Read more »
Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild
Roughly a month ago it was my good fortune to inherit a collection of about 120 books on the subject of Hollywood during its Golden Age between 1915 and 1960…. Read more »
American Stories
It is no surprise that the most highly respected and memorable artists working in comics are often described as being “cinematic” since both the mediums of film and comics intersect… Read more »
A Pair Of Book Reviews
On Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 two stories broke on my facebook feed. One was from indiewire that detailed David Lynch’s “retirement” from making films (2006’s Inland Empire is to be… Read more »
Film: The Front Line, 1983
In 1983 Jonathan Rosenbaum published a collection of essays profiling the work of some of cinema’s greatest artists of the avant-garde in his Film: The Front Line 1983. In this publication… Read more »
