CUBE: INSIDE THE MAKING OF A CULT FILM CLASSIC
An excellent idea for a book if you ask me: a behind-the-scenes look at Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction-horror classic CUBE, one of the most interesting low-budgeters to emerge from the nineties
THE BROOD (Book)
This hefty study of David Cronenberg’s THE BROOD is, quite simply, the most thorough and wide-ranging textual analysis of a horror movie ever written
ROBOCOP: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY
That title is somewhat misleading, as this is not the “definitive” history of ROBOCOP (1987) and its offshoots
ERASERHEAD, THE DAVID LYNCH FILES: VOLUME 1
For fans of ERASERHEAD, and the output of Mr. Lynch, I feel confident in proclaiming this book an absolute must-read
DUNE, THE DAVID LYNCH FILES: VOLUME 2
This, the second of Kenneth George Godwin’s DAVID LYNCH FILES, focuses on Lynch’s 1984 filming of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic DUNE
TONY SCOTT: A FILMMAKER ON FIRE
As a longtime fan of the late Tony Scott, whose directorial output includes TRUE ROMANCE and CRIMSON TIDE, I find this book a must-read by default
MY BEST FRIEND’S BIRTHDAY: THE MAKING OF A QUENTIN TARANTINO FILM
The first and only tome about the making of Quentin Tarantino’s never completed debut film
I’M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY
This memoir, by a famous movie star, poet and Mark Twain enthusiast, is the product of a celebrity who is overprivilaged without question, but not uninteresting
THE GUTTENBERG BIBLE
To those of us who came of age in the 1980s actor Steve Guttenberg is a familiar and perhaps even beloved figure
APROPOS OF NOTHING
It’s an interesting thing about Woody Allen: not too long ago he was considered the epitome of class and sophistication, but now he’s a pariah