From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
Christopher Sandford
London, England
Christopher Sandford is the author of three novels and a series of rock and movie biographies including Mick Jagger (1992), Eric Clapton (1994), Kurt Cobain (1995), David Bowie (1996), Bruce Springsteen (1999), Steven McQueen (2001), Paul McCartney (2005), and Roman Polanski (2007). His biography of Polanski is now out in paperback. One or two of the above, notably Cobain, have been optioned for film. Now at work on a dual biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini (exploring their mutual fascination with spiritualism), the British-born author calls Seattle and London home.
» The King of Chutzpah: On the Singular Pleasures of Phil Silvers (BLFJ
72 – May 2011)
"Silvers raised the smart-aleck, rapid-fire monolog to high art."
» Florence Lawrence: "The First Movie Star" (BLFJ
68 – May 2010)
"Lawrence had become a movie star for many reasons — gentleness, grace, that blonde hair, and what Laemmle assessed as 'sensational bubbies.'"
» David Niven: "P. G. Wodehouse with Tears" (BLFJ
67 – February 2010)
"What you got was what you saw, a man with a soldier's training speaking ever so nicely and trying not to stretch himself beyond his abilities as an actor"
» Sean Connery:
A "Natural Thruster" (BLFJ 66
–
November 2009)
"Connery, never a martyr to false modesty, remains as voluble and combative as ever."
» Steve McQueen:
Fifty Years of the King of Cool (BLFJ 65
–
August 2009)
"Steve understood real people, particularly misfits, like nobody else. It was just the Hollywood brass he loathed."
» James Mason:
Odd Man Out (BLFJ 64
–
May 2009)
Mason was "equally at home playing small, brooding anti-heroes, camping it up in a toga, or doing a nice line in late career self-parody."
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