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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/
"Caveh's body of work at the end of the day will be like a long Walt Whitman poem" -- Richard Linklater
Caveh Zahedi’s These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin — essays, diaries, and revelations from one of indie cinema’s most honest voices.
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This month from Sticking Place Books!
Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK: the unmade, almost produced final film by the master! screenplay finally published in full, w/ storyboards, production notes & archive material. A haunting tale of wings, innocence & corruption.
This looks intriguing from @stickingplacebk.bsky.social CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S THE FREAK: THE STORY OF AN UNFINISHED FILM, by David Robinson stickingplacebooks.com/charles-chap...
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Discover "O Brother, What Might Have Been: Three Lost Screenplays": three unproduced gems by Preston Sturges, brought back to life with essays and commentary. A must-read for cinephiles & writers who love what could’ve been. Available for a discount direct from our website!
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Coming from Sticking Place:
"It’s all laid out for you here— all the fun & fiascos, all the memories, the films, the battles, the triumphs & misadventures that defined my entire career." - Larry Cohen
Packed with rare photos directly from the Larry Cohen archives!
Sticking Place Books.
From near-forgotten artists to living legends—this is where film history sticks.
Archiving the art, thought, and history of cinema.
“This unproduced screenplay penned by Brian De Palma in the 1990s is the blueprint for a most eccentric thriller. It’s a heady, tongue-in-cheek swirl....” – North Shore Movies, 05/29/2025
Brian De Palma's AMBROSE CHAPEL, out now. from SPB.
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It was great talking to Jonathan Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum2002 again yesterday about his book, CAMERA MOVEMENTS THAT CONFOUND US. Stay tuned ! @stickingplacebk.bsky.social
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At the link below is my interview with film historian and writer #PatrickMcGilligan about his new book, STILL FILM CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. Check it out !
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O Brother, What Might Have Been: 3 UNPRODUCED Preston Sturges screenplays, is out NOW from SPB:
a) SONG OF JOY (about the movie business)
b) NOTHING DOING (millionaire rebuilds small town)
c) THE MILLIONAIRESS (written for Kate Hepburn, based on GBShaw)
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"What a wonderful collection — surprising, smart and rich." -- Nick Hornby
What do moving images mean? How and why do they work? Film archivist, curator, historian and writer Luke McKernan looks at 140 years of a bewitching medium. Out now!
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"With an introduction by Nicholas Ray biographer Patrick McGilligan, this is a memoir of great literary merit, with, it’s true, a sensationalist thread running throughout. It reads like The Catcher in the Rye-meets-Phaedre – with a twist of Hollywood Babylon"
Buy direct from SPB!
NEW FROM STICKING PLACE
At 21, Nicolas' Ray's son Tony Ray wrote the story he could never say out loud about being 12, falling for his stepmother Gloria Grahame & what happened next.
CIRCLE OF LIONS, the memoir 65 years in the shadows, now finally published.
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HANEKE ON HANEKE out now!
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New from James Naremore: CINEMA THEN AND NOW (conversations w/ Craig S. Simpson)-a sweeping, candid conversation on film, canons & the digital age.
From PSYCHO to Pedro Costa, a master thinker reflects on a life in cinema.
Order direct from SPB in U.K. or U.S. for a discount!
Coming from SPB & autobiographical provocateur Caveh Zahedi: a wild, wise, radically honest mix of essays, reviews, diary entries, film love & spiritual searching. Bresson, Kiarostami, heartbreak & indie cinema. Essential, eccentric, unforgettable.
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David Mamet's unproduced 1992 screenplay, RUSSIAN POLAND, is out now from Sticking Place Books, hardcover & paperback, U.S. & U.K.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum is interviewed about his book, TRAVELS IN THE CITIES OF CINEMA: Conversations With Ehsan Khoshbakht, published by Sticking Place Books!
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Part memoir, part critical inquiry, Cinema Then and Now is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Naremore.
Coming later this month from Sticking Place Books.
"DEAD MAN...[is] important to defend...this was the only Western that actually addressed Native Americans as audience members."
-Jonathan Rosenbaum in TRAVELS IN THE CITIES OF CINEMA, conversations w/ Ehsan Khoshbakht.
Available directly from Sticking Place Books at a discount.
“A truly bountiful treasure chest b...spurred by an indefatigable curiosity. His remarkable essay on Cassavetes and Mingus is the best and most useful thing I’ve ever read about either artist.
I can’t really praise it too highly.” — Jonathan Rosenbaum
New from Sticking Place.
Available today, direct from Sticking Place Books.
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Everyone has two jobs—one of them is being a film critic.
In EVERY MOVIE IS A MIRACLE, legendary reviewer Leonard Maltin sits down with Nat Segaloff for a candid, funny, and wide-ranging look at a life spent loving the movies. A must for film fans!
Coming Fall, 2025
Astonishing book (that I had nothing to do with). I heartily recommend.
06.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Bill Ryan reviews David Mamet's RUSSIAN POLAND, due June 9th from Sticking Place, for the Bulwark:
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Out now, order direct in U.S. & U.K. for savings!
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How do classic films remain alive and authentic amidst the shifting sands of time,
societal upheaval, and technological advance?
An essential volume, out now from Sticking Place Press.
U.S. & U.K. discount direct from publisher: stickingplacebooks.com/the-archival...
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Available in the U.S. an U.K. at a sizeable discount direct from our website.
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