Charles Bramesco Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Charles Bramesco

COLORS OF FILM: THE STORY OF CINEMA IN 50 PALETTES, on shelves now https://t.co/PhJoBleyGv https://t.co/olMymioqRL

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I wrote about the excellent M3GAN, our generation’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — a good film about the hazards of new tech but a great one about the screaming existential horror inherent in creating new life: https://t.co/Bt0GceRFG4

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I reviewed Wes Anderson's superb new film ASTEROID CITY, in which we're all just trying to make contact: https://t.co/UokmTURF2V

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Joining Luke Cage and High Fidelity on the list of shows shot outside my window is “Survival of the Thickest,” an upcoming Netflix comedy series adapted from comedian Michelle Buteau’s essay book of the same name. I asked if they wanted me for some local flavor; they were all set https://t.co/3Vyf8e8QlL

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I spoke to Kristin Marguerite Doidge, author of a new Nora Ephron biography, about the writer-of-all-trades who was so much more than the reigning queen of the grown-up romcom: https://t.co/iGnmevEtYW

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Saw BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA on 35 — the only “magic of the movies” movie to understand that “magic” doesn’t mean “feelings,” or even “performing fantastic, belief-defying feats of prestidigitation,” but rather “Anthony Hopkins and Tom Waits being real kooks”

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I talked with @MJSchulman about his staggeringly informative new book OSCAR WARS, which analyzes Hollywood’s Biggest Night as a reflection of politics, industry economics, shifting social mores, pretty much everything: https://t.co/oyr34hCSqs

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I reviewed THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER, which is kind of like GREEN BOOK, if racist Viggo was war hawk Zac Efron and Mahershala Ali was the pillaged nation of Vietnam: https://t.co/kdIDrQcb1w

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I wrote about the difference between the movie that ARMAGEDDON TIME and THE FABELMANS are being sold as (namely, CINEMA PARADISO) and the complex, downbeat, guilt-ridden reality of these memoir films: https://t.co/b7PklmbmjY

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Charles Bramesco

Saw BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA on 35 — the only “magic of the movies” movie to understand that “magic” doesn’t mean “feelings,” or even “performing fantastic, belief-defying feats of prestidigitation,” but rather “Anthony Hopkins and Tom Waits being real kooks”

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