Non-fiction book
22 articles
The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations by Tony Reeves
Whether it’s the fountain where Anita Ekberg frolicked in La Dolce Vita, the scuzzy convenience store where Dante wasn’t even supposed to be that day in Clerks or the hotel where Jack Nicholson went a little bit bonkers in The Shining, there are plenty of movie locations that remain a source of pilgrimage for holiday makers, movie buffs and – on occasion – completely bar…
Despite the System: Orson Welles versus The Hollywood Studios
In this fine appraisal of his oeuvre, Heylin looks at the director's failure to capitalise on the promise of Citizen Kane.
Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr
Shame there weren't as many
celebrity mags back in Joan's day, as she would've provided them with
endless fodder: casting couch connoisseur, a sideline in prostitution,
four marriages, Mommie Dearest... and a few films.
Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet
Francois Truffaut memorably said that there was “… a certain incompatibility between the words ‘cinema’ and ‘Britain’.” Stephen Frears had an equally memorable retort, stunning in its simplicity and epic in its sentiments: “Bollocks to Truffaut.” Yet aside from certainly glorious moments – the Free Cinema movement, the Swinging Sixties…
The Blade Runner Experience (Edited by Will Brooker)
If you’re a fan of Blade Runner – and there are many – you may be happy that there’s a new book exploring the classic film. However, if terms such as ‘Intertextuality’, ‘Liminal Space’ and ‘Cyberethnography’ are liable to give you a sudden headache then maybe you’d better check out Laurence Boyce’s review of The Blade Runner…