Reviews of Movie Books
I'm a prolific moviemaker. You can see my Sprocket Scientist website here. I like to think that I've been so consistently outside of critic-comfortable categories for so long (42 years now) that there's essentially a collective movie critic mental block against me. Not that I'm complaining or anything (well, ok, actually I am).
Scott Stark, another filmmaker, interviewed me in 1986 in San Francisco about my movie-making & published an edited version of the interview in Cinematograph. Oddly, very little critical attention has been paid to my movie work since then. Peter Walsh & Bill O'Driscoll have been 2 of the most notable exceptions to this black-out.
Nonetheless, I'm obsessed with movies - & not just with making my own. The following list of movie books reviewed only hints at my much larger interests. It might be more revealing to see my list of Favorite Movies by Other People.
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0137. "TRUE STORIES ABOUT GLORPS"
- credited to Michael Anft & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- original article entitled "Whose Story?" by Anft published in Baltimore City Paper (December 26, 1986)
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE reply to Anft article unpublished
- 11 X 17" offset printing black ink on white paper made as mailing
0477. a review of The Ballooning One, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's "Story of a Fructiferous Society"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 17, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12795100
0561. a review of Marilyn Singer (Introduction) "History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 11, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15145311
0562. a review of Cecile Starr & Robert Russett's "Experimental Animation"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15344091
0563. a review of Craig Baldwin's "Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15346335
0564. a review of Raymond Durgnat's "Luis Bunuel"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15347339
0565. a review of René Clair's "Cinema Yesterday And Today"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15348887
0566. a review of Jean Cocteau's "Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet and The Testament of Orpheus"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15349877
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15350267
0568. a review of David Cronenberg, Chris Rodley's "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15350824
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15351464
0570. a review of David Curtis's "Experimental Cinema: A Fifty Year Evolution"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 13, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15352911
0574. a review of John Sandford's "The New German Cinema"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 23, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16208909
0575. a review of Jean-Luc Godard's "Masculine Feminine"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 23, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16211283
0577. a review of Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville a film by Jean-Luc Godard"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 25, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16212011
0578. a review of Malcolm Legrice "Abstract Film and Beyond"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 25, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16344942
0579. a review of Scott MacDonald (Editor) "A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16403749
0580. a review of Scott MacDonald (Editor) "A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16404432
0581. a review of Scott MacDonald (Editor) "Screen Writings: Texts and Scripts from Independent Films"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16406267
0582. a review of Dusan Makavejev's "WR: Mysteries of the Organism"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16407308
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16408220
0584. a review of Gerald Mast's "Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16408863
0585. a review of Peter Gidal's "Materialist Film"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16409171
0587. a review of Jonas Mekas's "Movie Journal - The Rise of an American Cinema 1959-1971"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16411238
0588. a review of Maurice Yacowar's "The Films of Paul Morrissey"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16412065
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16482966
0590. a review of Robert A. Haller's "Crossroads: Avant Garde Film In Pittsburgh In The 1970s"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16483866
0591. a review of Chris Gehman, Steve Reinke, Gerald Saul's "The John Porter Film Activity Book"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16484429
0592. a review of P. Adams Sitney's "Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-1978"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 27, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16492953
0593. a review of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "Hitler, a Film from Germany"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 27, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16493138
0594. a review of Parker Tyler's "Underground Film - A Critical History"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 27, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16493275
0595. a review of Ira Schneider, Mary Lucier, Beryl Korot's "Video Art: An Anthology"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 27, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16493539
0596. a review of Amos Vogel's "Film as a Subversive Art"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 27, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16493886
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 27, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16493992
0744. a review of Peggy Ahwesh & Keith Sanborn edited "Vertov from Z to A"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on March 22, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3046268-vertov-from-z-to-a
0929. a review of Ruth Hayes's "eggchase"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on May 26, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22997259
0933. a review of Patrick Kelley's "Sand Step"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on May 28, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23110210
0956. a review of Demarais Studio's "Eating Rock and Roll"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24009206
0981. a review of John Waters' "National Peep Extra"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 21, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25088789
1019. a review of Bill Daniel's "Mostly True: The Story of Bozo Texino"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on July 21, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27921370
1048. a review of Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on May 9, 2009
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228250.Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television
1055. a review of George Jefferies's "The Jefferies Film"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 23, 2009
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60776945
- credited to both: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & The Ballooning One
- published in OTHERZINE issue 17 (Fall, 2009)
- http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/archives/index.php?issueid=22&article_id=96
- published at the invitation of: Monty Cantsin
1117. a review of Gene Youngblood's "Expanded Cinema"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on November 30. 2009
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769920.Expanded_Cinema
1263. a review of "Alfred Hitchcock The Master of Suspense - A Pop-up Book"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on September 26, 2011
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15072.Alfred_Hitchcock
1329. a review of Kim "Howard" Johnson's "Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on May 19, 2012
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3124166-monty-python-s-tunisian-holiday
1338. a review of Luis Buñuel's "My Last Sigh"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on July 6, 2012
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370092639
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads December 4, 2013:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/353076-review-of-incite-exhibition-guide
1608. "CineScenesSeen"
- A review of the Clint Enns edited "John Porter's CineScenes: Documentary Portraits of Alternative Film Scenes Toronto and Beyond1978-2015"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads March 5, 2016
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/423389-cinescenesseen
1919. "Film Noir: Dark Movies"
- a review of Andrew Spicer's "Film Noir"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on December 15, 2018
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1084349-film-noir?chapter=1
1961. "Old MacDonald: Lifestyles-of the rich-in Cambridge"
- a review of Scott MacDonald's "Avant-Doc - Intersections of Documentary & Avant-Garde Cinema"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on October 2, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1150122-old-macdonald?chapter=1
1976. "Tavel: Preposterous"
- a review of Ronald Tavel's "Andy Warhol's Ridiculous Screenplays"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on December 29, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1243175-tavel?chapter=1
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads February 20, 2023
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5361400950
2180. "review of Jim Barratt's "Bad Taste""
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads August 2, 2023
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5739080505
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