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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 · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 ...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

Some would say ROADHOUSE "s Kevin Tighe.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

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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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Just a head's up. Bertolucci's LITTLE BUDDHA w/ Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak & Bridget Fonda, was never offiically released in its 140-minute original version in the U.S. until the new KL bluray(it's also streaming on the Kino channel). Some might not know Miramax chopped it up.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

He was a Brand Name -- "Hand me the Maltin" -- for generations. Now, an interview book covering his career as a film historian, writer, reviewer and TV commentator. EVERY MOVIE IS A MIRACLE, a colloquy between Leonard Maltin & Nat Segaloff. Out NOW from SPB.

stickingplacebooks.com/every-movie-...

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Major Obscure YT of the day:

Sam Fuller wrote and directed an unaired pilot in 1959, DOGFACE, kind of THE BIG RED ONE as a tv show.

Starring Luke Anthony as "Sergeant Rock"! Neyle Morrow (SHOCK CORRIDOR) , Gerald Milton (NAKED KISS).

youtu.be/CANh9GpozLg?...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Obscure Scheider of the day: a photographer realizes death-row inmate might be innocent in SOMEONE HAS TO SHOOT THE PICTURE (1990)! Roy Scheider stars w Bonnie Bedelia, Andre Braugher, Robert Carradine & Arliss Howard. Directed by Frank Pierson ( KING OF GYPSIES) m.ok.ru/video/738116...

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