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Sticking Place Books is a New York-based publisher specializing in cinema, offering interview books, memoirs, critical & historical studies, & essay collections https://stickingplacebooks.com/

Michael Elias, comedy legend (he wrote THE JERK) has a new novel about 1970s Hollywood new from Sticking Place! Steve Martin opines "I loved this book!" & Patrick McGilligan says "a great read...and a love letter to L.A...Eve Babitz meets Raymond Chandler"! stickingplacebooks.com/books/bender...

Bender's L.A.

In the coke-dusted canyons and deal-making rooms of 1970s Los Angeles, Bender's L.A. follows writer David Bender as he sets out to remake his life — romantic...

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This book is great! Coming from SPB: Part dossier, part time capsule — Michael Almereyda's WRITINGS AND RELICS: 1990–1995 captures downtown NYC's indie film underground. Fisher-Price cameras, David Lynch, vampire lore, &films that almost were. Creative survival at the margins.

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An Acid Western that dismantles the myth of the American West. A claustrophobic psychocomedy of love, sex & power. Two unearthed scripts from Jim McBride. Lost Screenplays of the 1970s is a remarkable piece of film history, including a new interview with Jim McBride.

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"I drank down this intoxicating account in avid gulps, my eyes bulging with revelation at every turn." — Guy Maddin on THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY by Pamela Hutchinson. The full, astonishing saga of silent cinema's most scandalous unfinished masterpiece out March 27th from SPB.

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A spiritual sequel to My Lunches With Orson, but this time indie film maverick Henry Jaglom sings for his supper. Freeform, funny & endlessly surprising, Daniel Kremer's My Lunches With Henry Jaglom is out March 30th from SPB. Foreword by Candice Bergen. Afterword by Noah Wyle.

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MY LIFE IS THE CINEMA brings the writings of Esfir' Shub to English for the first time—the pioneering "sorceress of the editing table," & a comrade of Sergei Eisenstein& Dziga Vertov, she redefined montage, archival cinema, & documentary ethics. Available now from SPB!

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The Cinephile Conversations is a collection of dialogues, colloquies & interviews with some of the most insightful thinkers on cinema: Michel Ciment, Joseph McBride, Leonard Maltin, James Naremore, Gerald Peary, Pierre Rissient, Jonathan Rosenbaum & David Sterritt. More to come!

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“I Loved Movies, But…” by Joseph McBride is a candid, electrifying cine-memoir: from childhood trauma to Hollywood adventures, from obsessing over Orson Welles & Steven Spielberg to exploring truth, politics & cinema. A must-read for every film lover. Out now via SPB.

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Cool book! Ari Aster calls him “the most important teacher I’ve ever had.” The Zen of the Director isn’t a how-to manual — it’s a guide to directing your "self." Peter Markham shows how mindset shapes every frame, 1st idea to final cut. Profound, practical & compassionate.

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"[Pierre] knew how to look, appreciate and grasp the true essence of a film like very few people do. I trusted him completely." -- from Clint Eastwood's foreward to MISTER EVERYWHERE: CONVERSATIONS WITH PIERRE RISSIENT, out NOW from Sticking Place Books! Good stuff!

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