Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie

The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happened

The Guardian

"Many Bothans died to bring us this information..."

#StarWars - the Blueprints, from Dorling Kindersley,, the perfect gift for the scruffy nerd herder in your life

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“What [director Ken] Loach was to call a ‘go-in-and-grab-it type of filmmaking’ follows the actors – for the most part newcomers or non-professionals – as they move through real locations among real people going about their ordinary business….” 📽️ 🇬🇧 🎞️ #cinema #film #movies #CineMastodon #BritishCinema #FilmBooks #KES #KenLoach #BritishFilmmakers

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/david-trotter/don-t-go-quietly

David Trotter · Don’t go quietly: Ken Loach’s Fables

It's largely thanks to Loach's example that social realism remains a potent and versatile cultural resource for young...

London Review of Books

I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

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A mahoosive thank you to John Walsh for this amazing delivery today with his book about one of my favourite films.

Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4g1sbZP

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Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – from fish out of water to Hollywood star

The method actor traces his path to success, spending as much time on the films that flopped as the greatest hits

The Guardian
‘He erased the entire project’ … the book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/21/stanley-kubrick-director-book-block-flaws-films-published #StanleyKubrick #Filmindustry #Filmbooks #Culture #Books #Film
‘He erased the entire project’ … the book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published

Half a century since the perfectionist director vowed to block it, a critique that dared to discuss flaws in his films is to be published

The Guardian

MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST, by Carrie Courogen (forthcoming, 2024) 🎥 📚

“…Courogen has achieved the impossible: she has written the first (and very likely last) full-scale biography of Elaine May, the most beguiling, infuriating, thrilling, comedy genius — and let’s not use that word casually — of the twentieth century, and she has done it splendidly….”—Sam Wasson
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A reminder, in the ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike... Without the talented artists & craftspeople who make movies & shows, there won't be any future original classics, just A.I. ripping off and regurgitating things an algorithm deems popular. How would it know? It hasn't any real friends.

8/9/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

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