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An Interview with Lewis J. Stadlen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNSZtESgkg
Q&A with Steve Bergsman, author of The Wanderers
Q&A with Steve Bergsman, author of The Wanderers - Killer Teens, Rebel Teens, Gang Teens and the evolution of the last Great Greaser Feature What is the book about?On the surface, it is about the making of the cult movie, The Wanderers, from 1979. However, the wider and more accurate summation is that the book is about all the factors that pushed this movie to be made including current affairs, trends in film genres and the abiding interest of the director.…This book has a more specific origination story, right?Yes, it is one of the few movies where the original inspiration...
Michael Kutza's Memoir, "Starstruck: How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years", is now available in Audio
Want to hear behind-the-scenes stories from 50+ years of the Chicago International Film Festival in anticipation of this fall’s 59th edition? Check out Starstruck: How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years. It’s a captivating memoir by our Festival Founder Michael Kutza detailing his time at the helm of the longest-running competitive film festival in North America, with stories featuring stars from Sophia Loren and Steven Spielberg to Viola Davis and Al Pacino. As Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone says, “For many of us, Michael Kutza brought the great city of Chicago to life with his infectious love...
"Library Journal" Book Review - "The Novelizers"
"LIBRARY JOURNAL" BOOK REVIEW Spencer (Musical Theatre Writer’s Survival Guide) is not only an award-winning composer/lyricist but also a lifelong fan of novelizations and tie-in books. “Media tie-in writing is literature. Real literature,” he persuasively argues in this massive and affectionate history of novelizations. Screenplay novelizations of silent films began appearing in 1915, decades after stage play novelizations. Far from hack writers, among the notables who wrote novelizations are Pulitzer Prize winner Upton Sinclair (who novelized the play Damaged Goods in 1913); National Book Award winner Paul Monette who penned tie-ins for Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu and Brian De Palma’s Scarface; and Isaac Asimov, who novelized Fantastic...
Book Review - John Wayne's B-Westerns, 1932-1939
https://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-review-john-wayne-b-westerns-1932.html