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Michael Elias, comedy legend (he wrote THE JERK) has a new novel about 1970s Hollywood new from Sticking Place! Steve Martin opines "I loved this book!" & Patrick McGilligan says "a great read...and a love letter to L.A...Eve Babitz meets Raymond Chandler"! Link in reply:

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New podcast featuring I and Jim McBride yapping about our new book of his unproduced screenplays just dropped! Book out today!

This book is great! Coming from SPB: Part dossier, part time capsule — Michael Almereyda's WRITINGS AND RELICS: 1990–1995 captures downtown NYC's indie film underground. Fisher-Price cameras, David Lynch, vampire lore, &films that almost were. Creative survival at the margins.

An Acid Western that dismantles the myth of the American West. A claustrophobic psychocomedy of love, sex & power. Two unearthed scripts from Jim McBride. Lost Screenplays of the 1970s is a remarkable piece of film history, including a new interview with Jim McBride.

A spiritual sequel to My Lunches With Orson, but this time indie film maverick Henry Jaglom sings for his supper. Freeform, funny & endlessly surprising, Daniel Kremer's My Lunches With Henry Jaglom is out March 30th from SPB. Foreword by Candice Bergen. Afterword by Noah Wyle.

"I drank down this intoxicating account in avid gulps, my eyes bulging with revelation at every turn." — Guy Maddin on THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY by Pamela Hutchinson. The full, astonishing saga of silent cinema's most scandalous unfinished masterpiece out March 27th from SPB.

New at NRFTS Blog: @Tom_LSOO on John Bleasdale’s Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer, which "raises a foundational question about the role of the critic: how to establish a pattern of recognition without being reductive?" nrftsjournal.org/darkness-visib… @StickingPlaceBk

Coming soon, the incredible screenplays from Jim McBride's "lost" period in the 1970s after DAVID HOZMAN'S DIARY & before BREATHLESS & THE BIG EASY. With an intro with a detailed interview with McBride by yours truly.

I write on Brian De Palma's unproduced 1994 screenplay AMBROSE CHAPEL (meant for Madonna and Brad Pitt) and its place in De Palma's oeuvre at TrembleSighWonder! AMBROSE CHAPEL now out from Sticking Place Books! Link in reply:

Larry Cohen's unproduced screenplay "Headhunter" is out from Sticking Place Books, alongside his memoir. New to TSW is my intro to the book, discussing his remarkable career and how "Headhunter" fits into it. Link in reply:

MY LIFE IS THE CINEMA brings the writings of Esfir' Shub to English for the first time—the pioneering "sorceress of the editing table," & a comrade of Sergei Eisenstein& Dziga Vertov, she redefined montage, archival cinema, & documentary ethics. Available now from SPB!

Daniel Kremer signing his Sticking Place Book ADVENTURES IN AUTEURISM tomorrow evening!

Larry Cohen's newly published memoir, filled with photos from the Larry Cohen archives, available now direct from Sticking Place Books at a discount for both U.S. and U.K. buyers.

NEW EPISODE I Killed Bette Davis Christmas came early this year with the new publication of the posthumous memoirs of the great Larry Cohen. We invited the book's editor @jfkenney to geek out about mutant babies, flying serpents and all things Cohen. soundcloud.com/user-564624820…

The Cinephile Conversations is a collection of dialogues, colloquies & interviews with some of the most insightful thinkers on cinema: Michel Ciment, Joseph McBride, Leonard Maltin, James Naremore, Gerald Peary, Pierre Rissient, Jonathan Rosenbaum & David Sterritt. More to come!

“I Loved Movies, But…” by Joseph McBride is a candid, electrifying cine-memoir: from childhood trauma to Hollywood adventures, from obsessing over Orson Welles & Steven Spielberg to exploring truth, politics & cinema. A must-read for every film lover. Out now via SPB.

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Ever wonder what it’s like to spend 50+ years watching movies for a living? David Sterritt’s A Cinephile Under the Influence has the stories, the debates, the legends — and the love of cinema. Out now! Order direct from Sticking Place Books for a discount. Link in reply: