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  1. A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
    By Peter Bradshaw

    From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema

    theguardian.com/books/2026/jul

    #Filmbooks #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  2. A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
    By Peter Bradshaw

    From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema

    theguardian.com/books/2026/jul

    #Filmbooks #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  3. A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
    By Peter Bradshaw

    From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema

    theguardian.com/books/2026/jul

    #Filmbooks #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  4. “What [director Ken] Loach was to call a ‘go-in-and-grab-it type of filmmaking’ follows the actors – for the most part newcomers or non-professionals – as they move through real locations among real people going about their ordinary business….” 📽️ 🇬🇧 🎞️ #cinema #film #movies #CineMastodon #BritishCinema #FilmBooks #KES #KenLoach #BritishFilmmakers

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/da

  5. “What [director Ken] Loach was to call a ‘go-in-and-grab-it type of filmmaking’ follows the actors – for the most part newcomers or non-professionals – as they move through real locations among real people going about their ordinary business….” 📽️ 🇬🇧 🎞️ #cinema #film #movies #CineMastodon #BritishCinema #FilmBooks #KES #KenLoach #BritishFilmmakers

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/da

  6. “What [director Ken] Loach was to call a ‘go-in-and-grab-it type of filmmaking’ follows the actors – for the most part newcomers or non-professionals – as they move through real locations among real people going about their ordinary business….” 📽️ 🇬🇧 🎞️ #cinema #film #movies #CineMastodon #BritishCinema #FilmBooks #KES #KenLoach #BritishFilmmakers

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/da

  7. I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

    #books #CrimeFiction #reading #DogDayAfternoon #FilmBooks #BookCovers

  8. I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

    #books #CrimeFiction #reading #DogDayAfternoon #FilmBooks #BookCovers

  9. I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

    #books #CrimeFiction #reading #DogDayAfternoon #FilmBooks #BookCovers

  10. I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

    #books #CrimeFiction #reading #DogDayAfternoon #FilmBooks #BookCovers

  11. I haven't read many novelizations of films but heard good things about this one. Mann is a pseudonym for Leslie Waller. (The film won its only Oscar for best original screenplay, based on a Life magazine article.)

    #books #CrimeFiction #reading #DogDayAfternoon #FilmBooks #BookCovers

  12. A mahoosive thank you to John Walsh for this amazing delivery today with his book about one of my favourite films.

    Available on Amazon: amzn.to/4g1sbZP

    #FlashGordon #booksofmastodon #filmbooks #moviebooks

  13. A mahoosive thank you to John Walsh for this amazing delivery today with his book about one of my favourite films.

    Available on Amazon: amzn.to/4g1sbZP

    #FlashGordon #booksofmastodon #filmbooks #moviebooks

  14. A mahoosive thank you to John Walsh for this amazing delivery today with his book about one of my favourite films.

    Available on Amazon: amzn.to/4g1sbZP

    #FlashGordon #booksofmastodon #filmbooks #moviebooks

  15. A mahoosive thank you to John Walsh for this amazing delivery today with his book about one of my favourite films.

    Available on Amazon: amzn.to/4g1sbZP

    #FlashGordon #booksofmastodon #filmbooks #moviebooks

  16. MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST, by Carrie Courogen (forthcoming, 2024) 🎥 📚

    “…Courogen has achieved the impossible: she has written the first (and very likely last) full-scale biography of Elaine May, the most beguiling, infuriating, thrilling, comedy genius — and let’s not use that word casually — of the twentieth century, and she has done it splendidly….”—Sam Wasson
    #FilmBiographies #ElaineMay #FilmDirectors #FilmBooks #FilmMastodon #Cinemastodon

  17. A reminder, in the ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike... Without the talented artists & craftspeople who make movies & shows, there won't be any future original classics, just A.I. ripping off and regurgitating things an algorithm deems popular. How would it know? It hasn't any real friends.

    8/9/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

    #DaytonOhio #UsedBookStore #MovieBooks #FilmBooks #WGA #SagAftra #ClassicMovies @bookstodon

  18. A reminder, in the ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike... Without the talented artists & craftspeople who make movies & shows, there won't be any future original classics, just A.I. ripping off and regurgitating things an algorithm deems popular. How would it know? It hasn't any real friends.

    8/9/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

    #DaytonOhio #UsedBookStore #MovieBooks #FilmBooks #WGA #SagAftra #ClassicMovies @bookstodon

  19. A reminder, in the ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike... Without the talented artists & craftspeople who make movies & shows, there won't be any future original classics, just A.I. ripping off and regurgitating things an algorithm deems popular. How would it know? It hasn't any real friends.

    8/9/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

    #DaytonOhio #UsedBookStore #MovieBooks #FilmBooks #WGA #SagAftra #ClassicMovies @bookstodon

  20. A reminder, in the ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike... Without the talented artists & craftspeople who make movies & shows, there won't be any future original classics, just A.I. ripping off and regurgitating things an algorithm deems popular. How would it know? It hasn't any real friends.

    8/9/23 Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.

    #DaytonOhio #UsedBookStore #MovieBooks #FilmBooks #WGA #SagAftra #ClassicMovies @bookstodon

  21. Want to get 30% off my latest co-edited book and lots of other film studies books? Check out the virtual book exhibition at Combined Academic Publishers in honor of the International Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow this week.

    combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-

    :mastodance:

    #film #Cinemastodon #movies #Queer #Feminist #ToddHaynes #ScreenCon2023 #FilmBooks
    @filmstudies

  22. Want to get 30% off my latest co-edited book and lots of other film studies books? Check out the virtual book exhibition at Combined Academic Publishers in honor of the International Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow this week.

    combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-

    :mastodance:

    #film #Cinemastodon #movies #Queer #Feminist #ToddHaynes #ScreenCon2023 #FilmBooks
    @filmstudies

  23. Want to get 30% off my latest co-edited book and lots of other film studies books? Check out the virtual book exhibition at Combined Academic Publishers in honor of the International Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow this week.

    combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-

    :mastodance:

    #film #Cinemastodon #movies #Queer #Feminist #ToddHaynes #ScreenCon2023 #FilmBooks
    @filmstudies

  24. Want to get 30% off my latest co-edited book and lots of other film studies books? Check out the virtual book exhibition at Combined Academic Publishers in honor of the International Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow this week.

    combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-

    :mastodance:

    #film #Cinemastodon #movies #Queer #Feminist #ToddHaynes #ScreenCon2023 #FilmBooks
    @filmstudies

  25. Want to get 30% off my latest co-edited book and lots of other film studies books? Check out the virtual book exhibition at Combined Academic Publishers in honor of the International Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow this week.

    combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-

    :mastodance:

    #film #Cinemastodon #movies #Queer #Feminist #ToddHaynes #ScreenCon2023 #FilmBooks
    @filmstudies