Matt Zoller Seitz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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4. Reel to Real: Race, Class, and Sex at the Movies. By the late, great bell hooks. A perfect book. https://t.co/jwhqTrZ3eQ

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5. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business. By Mel Brooks. That boy gets NO TIP. https://t.co/uGloaot8RT https://t.co/wJOoEHSA7K

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RT @emwrobin: Mylod comparing the dirt scene to Eliot’s The Waste Land: help

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@dodgyboffin @mylessauer @_jakelene You can tell Rod Serling wrote it because it has the twilight zone thing where you know what he’s actually saying but he’s not saying it

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8. Mystified by the sudden run on the paperback of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, but it's a classic book, well worth picking up if you don't already have it. https://t.co/vr1nZPUeK7 https://t.co/7YezEG9z6d

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3. Duras/Godard Dialogues. The series of conversations between two giants of cinema, Jean-Luc Godard and Marguerite Duras. https://t.co/XGAH9UPrZk

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Jamie Foxx spent a little time with Ray Charles and Taylor Hackford kept urging him to go back, and he said no, because he is “like a sponge” and was afraid he would give a performance as the old Ray Charles. He talked to Quincy Jones and did research and bam.

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7. Michael Caine: Photographed by Terry O’Neill. Text by @jasclarkewriter; signed by the author. Hefty coffee table book filled with photos of Caine through the ages, all by the same photographer. https://t.co/bd2TkMxfkl https://t.co/DUctJfIhB2

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[THREAD] It's time for the store bestseller list. #1. For the third week straight, The Making of Alien, by the late, great J.W. Rinzler. Unusual to have a book like this at #1 for so long, but such is the affection/respect for Rinzler, an innovator. https://mzsworldstore.com/products/the-making-of-alien

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Anybody else on here adore Joseph Wambaugh? One of my gateway authors to serious fiction -- kinda straddled the line between pulp thriller and the Great American Novel on Big Themes; Ellroy-ish in terms of plot and character, though certainly not style. The Glitter Dome = fave.