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YOU’RE THE DIRECTOR…YOU FIGURE IT OUT

The first and only biography of the late Richard Donner

A book that purports to be a biography of the title character, who’s also known as Satan, Lucifer, Adversary and many other names

The object of this glossy large format paperback, from scream quenn Linnea Quigley, was to spoof Madonna’s SEX

John Waters is a filmmaker I’ve always found more entertaining than the films he makes

This is far from the ideal account of the life of the late Jan-Michael Vincent, but it is (as of 2021) the only one

This entertaining memoir offers further proof that even the lousiest movies have interesting histories

It’s taken 52 years, but we now have a thorough account of MIDNIGHT COWBOY’S making and reception

Possibly the most important film book of 2020, and one that fills a longtime void in silent film studies

Contra Mundum Press deserves credit for publishing this, a book whose potential readership is not what anyone would call broad

One of the more pleasantly surprising developments of 2020 was the inrush of attention paid to the work of Italy’s late Carmelo Bene