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GEOFF MURPHY: A LIFE ON FILM

An engaging memoir, and certainly one of most interesting and underrated film books of the 2010s

I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31

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

A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want

Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it

A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory

Concluding my 2019 overviews is this, the latest edition of Bedlam in Print, exploring the noteworthy publications of the previous twelve months

Few directors have had a more dramatic career trajectory than John McTiernan

A short book but also a valuable one, representing as it does a meeting of two most interesting minds: author Colin Wilson and filmmaker Ken Russell

My take on the late screenwriter, producer and director Larry Cohen is a complicated one