Bright Wall/Dark Room Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson
“Wes Anderson’s characters perform like clockwork, but they’re always set to fall apart like people.” -@NMissildine on THE FRENCH DISPATCH https://t.co/EWezbqdiY2 https://t.co/whswqGCUNw
Hardcover, 2021
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Catherine Fowler
"Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is one of the most profound portraits of melancholia put to film, precisely because it is only really about melancholia tangentially; because it whispers, never shouts." https://t.co/2XEGNQIAN0
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
“People will tell you they don’t watch old movies for a bunch of reasons…these people lack imagination…People keep talking about making America great again. Maybe they should start with the movies.” - Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mommy Dearest: A bedtime story for the littles.
Victoria Burnette
New today on the site: "Mommy Dearest" - Ursula Muñoz-Schaefer on "the spectatorship of PSYCHO and SANTA SANGRE, and queer people’s relationship to horror." (art by @haystackmanning) https://t.co/L0Z8Q6rV8D https://t.co/KDJtaFYzdW
Paperback, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dracula: (Original Edition)
B. Stoker
"It’s easy to write off BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, so married as it is to the neon tackiness of the early 1990s; it’s much harder to recognize that placing itself squarely into that context is an extraordinary device." -@candaceopper 🎨: @studiotstella https://t.co/gmymh6ZT7L
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
"Re-watching BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA over 30 years later, I'm both surprised by and in awe of its extraordinary garishness, its ability to strike humor by way of its self-seriousness, its unapologetic transience." -@candaceopper https://t.co/gmymh70qXj https://t.co/ycxCZn1pHH
Paperback, 2003
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Out of Sight
Elmore Leonard
"Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s OUT OF SIGHT is a heist story, a sexy potboiler, a noir rom-com that resurrects and perfects the lost art of cinematic sexual tension." -@BBW_BFF Artwork by @studiotstella https://t.co/upojZy8Q3O https://t.co/i1ggPeqfH0
Paperback, 2019
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Christine
Stephen King
"In John Carpenter’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s haunted-car novel CHRISTINE, the road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with time—our desire to control it, and its power to control us instead." -@aHeartOfGould https://t.co/uMFmj85Qju
Paperback, Mass Market, 2023
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dracula: New Edition - Bram Stoker
Bill Handler
"It’s easy to write off BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, so married as it is to the neon tackiness of the early 1990s; it’s much harder to recognize that placing itself squarely into that context is an extraordinary device." -@candaceopper 🎨: @studiotstella https://t.co/gmymh6ZT7L
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When Harry Met Sally. . .
Nora Ephron
The Best Version of Itself: Nora Ephron’s New York in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY https://t.co/P7NU4BYUwc
Paperback, 1990
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book