Richard Brody Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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And just happened to land on this cut but unseen gem, from 1959: Open Windows, a TV pilot starring Tony Randall and Maureen O'Hara, directed by Mitchell Leisen, shot by Karl Freund, and never broadcast (word from Karl Freund: The Life and Films, by Gavin Schmitt: https://t.co/V8NrEaJ5u4

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John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage, on @tcm at 10:30 p.m., gave rise to a book far better than the movie itself, Lillian Ross's Picture, which was first a five-part series in @NewYorker which could itself be adapted as a terrific movie or mini-series: https://t.co/EjmR23vWkH

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A word about the mighty, even hidden achievements of Thelonious Monk, from a while back (plus a reminder that Robin D.G. Kelley's biography of him is a work of extraordinary research, insight, and style, a truly great book): https://t.co/vKqrIW21NE

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Just discovered this amazing story: "Our next project was the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, which was later published under the title Carol. Again, our work had to be interrupted because of film rights. We had learned our lesson... https://t.co/1PWJnrxEB6

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What a trio at @Metrograph Marguerite Duras's Destroy, She Said (a great film that I haven't written about but is a weird footnote below) and Nathalie Granger, and Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia https://t.co/7hjHcmNJXf https://t.co/dpELrB5Iy6 https://t.co/kXydpxQg78

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I wish I never had cause to write in memory of Jean-Luc Godard, whose work is the most crucial in the modern cinema—past, present, and, yes, future—and to me: https://t.co/hmrz52zzPj

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For Holocaust Remembrance Day, a discussion of one scene from Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah and how it turns memory into dramatic action, how it makes words images; with a word about the words "Holocaust" and "Shoah" themselves: https://t.co/CyGsuAztXz

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The early show: Come and Get It, an absolute favorite by Howard Hawks (despite its partial Wylerization), with Frances Farmer in a remarkable double role, Walter Brennan at his best, Edward Arnold at his most; @tcm 6 a.m. (ET)... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/what-to-stream-come-and-get-it-one-of-the-greatest-films-by-howard-hawks

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The new biography of Michael Cimino by Charles Elton (published by @ABRAMSbooks) is remarkable, in matter and method; the mysteries and tragedies of Cimino's life are very moving, and the destruction of his career by film critics is enduringly infuriating: https://t.co/6efiDTSdyF

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Howard Hawks, in Joseph McBride's Hawks on Hawks, accurately describing his achievement in The Dawn Patrol and beyond—and what happened next: https://t.co/8HnuJ0Sutm