I’M SCREAMING AS FAST AS I CAN: MY LIFE IN B-MOVIES
A slim but reasonably satisfying mini-memoir by Linnea Quigley, the most prominent of the 1980s and ‘90s scream queens
CUT TO THE CHASE
A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want
TURNING JAPANESE
A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum
CONCLUSIONS
Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it
RIDLEY SCOTT: A BIOGRAPHY
A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory
BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER: MEMOIRS OF A NEUROTIC FILMMAKER
Barry Sonnenfeld is a cinematographer-turned-director whose defining trait, it seems, is self-deprecation.
THE BIG GOODBYE: CHINATOWN AND THE LAST YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD
This book is ostensibly about the making of CHINATOWN (1974), but its true concerns are Hollywood in the early 1970s and one of that milieu’s most contentious figures: one Roman Polanski
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE STORY OF NASTASSJA AND KLAUS KINSKI
With this self-published book author W.A. Harbinson has hit upon a topic of unquestioned dramatic intensity: the story of actor Klaus Kinski and his daughter Nastassja
THE MAGIC: THE STORY OF A FILM
First off, this is not, as is misleadingly proclaimed, “the book of” Christopher Nolan’s THE PRESTIGE. Rather, it’s a book about that film.
FEAR
This is the long awaited autobiography by Dario Argento, and (for once) it doesn’t disappoint