LOW-BUDGET HELL: MAKING UNDERGROUND MOVIES WITH JOHN WATERS
An interesting and, I think, vital take on John Waters and the underground film scene in which he thrived during the 1970s and early 80s
BLADE RUNNER: Novel, Treatment, and Movie(s)
Clarification: this article is not actually about BLADE RUNNER (1982). It refers, in fact, to a key line in its end credits sequence: “WITH THANKS TO WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND ALAN E. NOURSE FOR THE USE OF THE TITLE BLADE RUNNER.”
BARRABAS (1919)
This thirteen part serial hails from 1919. It was the final crime-themed work of France’s incomparable Louis Feuillade
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH
A novelization that replicates the unfettered spirit of its Joe Dante directed source
MALEVIL
Believe me when I tell you that this 1970s relic is one of the absolute best after-the-bomb novels in existence
WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
A maddening, thought-provoking and altogether brilliant portrayal of a murderer that doesn’t announce itself as such until the final ten minutes!
On THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
There has never been another film quite like THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
No, this isn’t a novelization of Luis Bunuel’s 1962 film EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR, but, rather, the screenplay for it
SPACE ODYSSEY: STANLEY KUBRICK, ARTHUR C. CLARKE, AND THE MAKING OF A MASTERPIECE
Appearing just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, this book can lay claim to being the definitive resource on the making of that classic
MY LAST BREATH
This was the final testament of Luis Bunuel, one of the world’s great troublemakers