Comments on: The 2009 And/Or Book Award http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/blog/the-2009-onoff-book-award-the-nominees-are/ Little White Lies is a bi-monthly, independent movie magazine that features cutting edge writing, illustration and photography to get under the skin of cinema. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Phil Huntley http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/blog/the-2009-onoff-book-award-the-nominees-are/comment-page-1/#comment-10170 Phil Huntley Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:12:53 +0000 http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/?p=4480#comment-10170 It's not Phaidon it's Taschen...and I've met Peter Biskind and he's a dim cock! Do you really think that the reasons 'Jaws' 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull' are so resonant is because everyone involved was on drugs? They were great because the people who made them were hungry and talented... It's not Phaidon it's Taschen…and I've met Peter Biskind and he's a dim cock! Do you really think that the reasons 'Jaws' 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull' are so resonant is because everyone involved was on drugs?
They were great because the people who made them were hungry and talented…

]]> By: Rusty http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/blog/the-2009-onoff-book-award-the-nominees-are/comment-page-1/#comment-10145 Rusty Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:59:44 +0000 http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/?p=4480#comment-10145 Phaidon do some amazing stuff. I've got a couple of their 'decade' film books (can't remember what they're called exactly). They just break down a decade of films - beautiful images, well designed, amazing packages. Also, their Orson Welles book is brilliant: <a href="http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/orson-welles-at-work-9780714845838" target="_blank">http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/orson-wel...</a> Phaidon do some amazing stuff. I've got a couple of their 'decade' film books (can't remember what they're called exactly). They just break down a decade of films – beautiful images, well designed, amazing packages. Also, their Orson Welles book is brilliant: http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/orson-wel...

]]> By: Richard Taylor http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/blog/the-2009-onoff-book-award-the-nominees-are/comment-page-1/#comment-10090 Richard Taylor Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:50:10 +0000 http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/?p=4480#comment-10090 If you're talking about great movie books, it;s hard to get past Peter Biskind's 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' - the story of how New Hollywood came to be in the late 60s/early 70s. Although most of the people quoted in the book have since claimed that he made it up. Probably because he portrays everybody as basically being a coked up egomaniac. He wrote one about the 50s too (forget the name) that was great as well. Also, I recently read a Walt Disney bio by Neal Gabler that was fascinating. It painted a portrait of Disney as a guy who was never really satisfied with the quality of the studio's work after Snow White, and who was always reaching for this impossible ideal. Showed him as a really mercurial figure and got past a lot of the myths - cryogenics and being a Nazi and that stuff. If you're talking about great movie books, it;s hard to get past Peter Biskind's 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' – the story of how New Hollywood came to be in the late 60s/early 70s. Although most of the people quoted in the book have since claimed that he made it up. Probably because he portrays everybody as basically being a coked up egomaniac. He wrote one about the 50s too (forget the name) that was great as well.

Also, I recently read a Walt Disney bio by Neal Gabler that was fascinating. It painted a portrait of Disney as a guy who was never really satisfied with the quality of the studio's work after Snow White, and who was always reaching for this impossible ideal. Showed him as a really mercurial figure and got past a lot of the myths – cryogenics and being a Nazi and that stuff.

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