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James Kenney

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Saved Peter Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Work featured in NY Times, Sight & Sound, New Yorker, LA Times TrembleSighWonder.com my site. Edited & wrote foreword to De Palma script. PB book coming, plus Jim McBride, Larry Cohen, Lizzie Borden books

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2h

Alongside Larry Cohen's memoirs, I'm writing the forward to Larry Cohen's unproduced screenplay HEADHUNTER. This book will also have some cool rare photos from Cohen's career in it.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3h

Obscure YT of the day: In honor of our coming Larry Cohen books, LC's USA cable movie AS GOOD AS DEAD (95)! He wrote and directed this, it's pure Cohen. Crystal Bernard, Judge Reinhold and Traci Lords star! He tells an intriguing Traci Lords anecdote in his memoir!

youtu.be/z804s_ugYTA?...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 14h

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 11h

Larry Cohen doing post-production on WICKED STEPMOTHER (Barbara Carrera on screen).

“Larry Cohen was outrageous. Larry Cohen was a hustler. Larry Cohen was a maverick. And Larry Cohen was a visionary. I miss him.”

—From John Landis’s Forword to LC's memoir, coming next month.

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

The movies I've walked out of (as far as I can recall):

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Getaway remake with Baldwin & Basinger
The Luzhin Defence
Breakfast of Champions

The one I wish I did so I could have however much of my life back.

She Hate Me

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

I review Hal Hartley's new film, WHERE TO LAND! Zardoz has spoken!

tremblesighwonder.com/2025/10/08/t...

“The Beginning of Thinking”: Hal Hartley’s Where to Land

Hal Hartley is back, which is good news.

tremblesighwonder.com

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, I'd think it's more they're both referencing "America, the Beautiful" ("O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain...") :)

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

Obscure YT of the day:

Hitchhiking male model (Kurt Russell) gets work on farm of angry wheat farmer (Dennis Weaver) in AMBER WAVES (1980). Mare Winningham won Emmy as Weaver's daughter. Joseph Sargent (PELHAM 123) directs!

youtu.be/BYLhN3-c0SQ?...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

My invading the private Larry Cohen photo collection has unearthed gems such as Tom Bosley smoking a cigarette on the set of WICKED STEPMOTHER.

Memoir coming in November

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

In case you're wondering, I recommended ONE BATTLE to my freshman college writing class yesterday...and no one had HEARD of

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

My latest project:

"My overall tendency is to take generally mundane things and turn them into objects of menace—a newborn baby, ice cream, an ambulance"
-Larry Cohen, from I KILLED BETTIE DAVIS...

His memoir coming from SPB, packed w/ photos from the Larry Cohen collection!

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

"Caveh's body of work at the end of the day will be like a long Walt Whitman poem" -- Richard Linklater

Caveh Zahedi’s These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin — essays, diaries, and revelations from one of indie cinema’s most honest voices.

stickingplacebooks.com/these-fragme...

These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin - Sticking Place Books

Caveh Zahedi With his characteristic candor, wit, and steadfast belief in radical honesty, this collection of personal essays, critical reviews, and selected diary entries from Caveh Zahedi takes the ...

stickingplacebooks.com

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

Obscure YT of the day: SNL's Jane Curtin stars in a remake of Hitchcock's SUSPICION (1987), w/ Anthony Andrews & future director Jonathan Lynn

youtu.be/xtE6bJHGSus?...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

the longest exchange we've had in years is over kevin tighe???

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

Another 48 Hrs' Kevin Tighe?

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Obscure YT of the day: Claudia Cardinale (RIP) & Monica Vitti star in BLONDE IN BLACK LEATHER (1975). Carlo Di Palma directs!

youtu.be/QCjg-OEyec8?...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

More from Sticking Place Books:

Dive into MISTER EVERYWHERE, the spellbinding memoir of Pierre Rissient — a life lived for cinema.

With a foreword by Clint Eastwood, and preface by Betrand Tavernier, this book reveals his backstage influence on legends and global film culture.

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

“All archives decay. The question is—what do we do with the ruins?”

Ross Lipman’s The Archival Impermanence Project rethinks what film preservation means in the digital age: how film survives through change, decay, and reinvention.

Out now from Sticking Place Books.

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Some would say ROADHOUSE "s Kevin Tighe.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

It was good to see EMERGENCY's Kevin Tighe pop up in in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, but even more heartening to see Jon Beavers, Twist from THE FRESH BEAT BAND, still at it as white supremacist 1776 James.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty damn great. I saw it on regular digital projection and survived, unscathed.

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Ad for the 1983 James Bond 007 "Video Game Cartridge"

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

not *always true, but a decent bet, yeah. He wasn't a dummy, per se. You could usually parse WHY he cut something, just infuriating that he did.

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