Books, 3/5.

"I've never read a film writer with a voice quite like Howard Hampton," writes Paul Matwychuk. "He's just published a new book of essays entitled Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales and Pop Apocalypses, and it's by turns exhilarating and confounding. Imagine Manny Farber on fast-forward, or Lester Bangs if he were addicted to Red Bull instead of cough syrup."

Filmmakers recommend film books: Kat Candler asked a few friends - well, more than a few - for titles her students ought to read this semester. Scott Macaulay not only runs the list at Filmmaker but adds four recommendations of his own - with notes.

Cinephilia meets bibliophilia again in an entry from David Bordwell celebrating the French, who "understand that books contribute to the public good."

Posted by dwhudson at March 5, 2007 12:20 PM