Discover "O Brother, What Might Have Been: Three Lost Screenplays": three unproduced gems by Preston Sturges, brought back to life with essays and commentary. A must-read for cinephiles & writers who love what could’ve been. Available for a discount direct from our website!

Coming from Sticking Place: "It’s all laid out for you here— all the fun & fiascos, all the memories, the films, the battles, the triumphs & misadventures that defined my entire career." - Larry Cohen Packed with rare photos directly from the Larry Cohen archives!

Sticking Place Books. From near-forgotten artists to living legends—this is where film history sticks. Archiving the art, thought, and history of cinema.

“This unproduced screenplay penned by Brian De Palma in the 1990s is the blueprint for a most eccentric thriller. It’s a heady, tongue-in-cheek swirl....” – North Shore Movies, 05/29/2025 Brian De Palma's AMBROSE CHAPEL, out now. from SPB. stickingplacebooks.com/ambrose-chap...

It was great talking to Jonathan Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum2002 again yesterday about his book, CAMERA MOVEMENTS THAT CONFOUND US. Stay tuned ! @stickingplacebk.bsky.social #jonathanrosenbaum #filmcritic #writer #books #filmbook #movies #films #cinema #cinephiles #stickingplacebooks

At the link below is my interview with film historian and writer #PatrickMcGilligan about his new book, STILL FILM CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. Check it out ! youtu.be/Gy57RxCG2tA @stickingplacebk.bsky.social #books #filmbooks #movies #filmhistory #cinephiles #filmpodcast #filmbuffs #moviebuffs

O Brother, What Might Have Been: 3 UNPRODUCED Preston Sturges screenplays, is out NOW from SPB: a) SONG OF JOY (about the movie business) b) NOTHING DOING (millionaire rebuilds small town) c) THE MILLIONAIRESS (written for Kate Hepburn, based on GBShaw) stickingplacebooks.com/o-brother-wh...

"What a wonderful collection — surprising, smart and rich." -- Nick Hornby What do moving images mean? How and why do they work? Film archivist, curator, historian and writer Luke McKernan looks at 140 years of a bewitching medium. Out now! stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

"With an introduction by Nicholas Ray biographer Patrick McGilligan, this is a memoir of great literary merit, with, it’s true, a sensationalist thread running throughout. It reads like The Catcher in the Rye-meets-Phaedre – with a twist of Hollywood Babylon" Buy direct from SPB!

NEW FROM STICKING PLACE At 21, Nicolas' Ray's son Tony Ray wrote the story he could never say out loud about being 12, falling for his stepmother Gloria Grahame & what happened next. CIRCLE OF LIONS, the memoir 65 years in the shadows, now finally published. stickingplacebooks.com/circle-of-li...

HANEKE ON HANEKE out now!

New from James Naremore: CINEMA THEN AND NOW (conversations w/ Craig S. Simpson)-a sweeping, candid conversation on film, canons & the digital age. From PSYCHO to Pedro Costa, a master thinker reflects on a life in cinema. Order direct from SPB in U.K. or U.S. for a discount!

Coming from SPB & autobiographical provocateur Caveh Zahedi: a wild, wise, radically honest mix of essays, reviews, diary entries, film love & spiritual searching. Bresson, Kiarostami, heartbreak & indie cinema. Essential, eccentric, unforgettable.

David Mamet's unproduced 1992 screenplay, RUSSIAN POLAND, is out now from Sticking Place Books, hardcover & paperback, U.S. & U.K.

Jonathan Rosenbaum is interviewed about his book, TRAVELS IN THE CITIES OF CINEMA: Conversations With Ehsan Khoshbakht, published by Sticking Place Books! youtu.be/huOQ9MLP0EI?...

Part memoir, part critical inquiry, Cinema Then and Now is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Naremore. Coming later this month from Sticking Place Books.

"DEAD MAN...[is] important to defend...this was the only Western that actually addressed Native Americans as audience members." -Jonathan Rosenbaum in TRAVELS IN THE CITIES OF CINEMA, conversations w/ Ehsan Khoshbakht. Available directly from Sticking Place Books at a discount.

“A truly bountiful treasure chest b...spurred by an indefatigable curiosity. His remarkable essay on Cassavetes and Mingus is the best and most useful thing I’ve ever read about either artist. I can’t really praise it too highly.” — Jonathan Rosenbaum New from Sticking Place.

Available today, direct from Sticking Place Books.

Everyone has two jobs—one of them is being a film critic. In EVERY MOVIE IS A MIRACLE, legendary reviewer Leonard Maltin sits down with Nat Segaloff for a candid, funny, and wide-ranging look at a life spent loving the movies. A must for film fans! Coming Fall, 2025

Astonishing book (that I had nothing to do with). I heartily recommend.

Bill Ryan reviews David Mamet's RUSSIAN POLAND, due June 9th from Sticking Place, for the Bulwark:

Out now, order direct in U.S. & U.K. for savings!

Out now from Sticking Place Books, available direct at a serious discount.

How do classic films remain alive and authentic amidst the shifting sands of time, societal upheaval, and technological advance? An essential volume, out now from Sticking Place Press. U.S. & U.K. discount direct from publisher: stickingplacebooks.com/the-archival...

Available in the U.S. an U.K. at a sizeable discount direct from our website.

This dreamlike screenplay fuses classic suspense with mystical storytelling. RUSSIAN POLAND reveals David Mamet working in an unusually lyrical, elusive register. Coming June 9th from Sticking Place!

This dreamlike screenplay fuses classic suspense with mystical storytelling. Both caper yarn and mystic meditation, RUSSIAN POLAND reveals David Mamet working in an unusually lyrical, elusive register. Coming June 9th from Sticking Place!

“This...screenplay penned by Brian De Palma in the 1990s is the blueprint for a most eccentric thriller. It’s a heady, tongue-in-cheek swirl of the director’s pet preoccupations, with the villain’s plan...De Palma is literally weaponizing his love of Hitchcock here.”- Sean Burns

A shelf of Sticking Place Books. Add to your collection at a steep discount by ordering direct from Sticking Place Books, U.S. or U.K.!

A truly bountiful treasure chest bringing together Ross Lipman’s restoration writings, research, analysis, imagination, and enjoyment; all of them slyly educating one another, spurred by an indefatigable curiosity.--Jonathan Rosenbaum The Archival Impermanence Project, out next week!

At North Shore Movies this week I wrote about AMBROSE CHAPEL, the Brian De Palma movie that never happened.

Here's a podcast where Jonathan Rosenbaum talks about one of his recent Sticking Place Books publications, TRAVELS IN THE CITIES OF CINEMA: www.everand.com/podcast/8534... #ReadMore

Here's a podcast where Jonathan Rosenbaum talks about one of his recent Sticking Place Books publications, TRAVELS IN THE CITIES OF CINEMA: www.everand.com/podcast/8534... #ReadMore

Congratulations to the winner of the Sticking Place Books giveaway! A copy of Neil Hornick's THE MAGIC EYE: THE CINEMA OF STANLEY KUBRICK will be heading out to Centreville, Virginia, shortly! There will be another giveaway before long, so keep an eye out!

Given the sad fate of my book, I thought I’d finished with Kubrick. But, as I’m sure others before and after me have also discovered, one is never really finished with him."-- Neil Hornick Read the book Kubrick suppressed for decades, available from Sticking Place Books!

Buried for Decades. Now Unleashed. Brian De Palma's Wildest Vision of Them All. AMBROSE CHAPEL. The unproduced Screwball Noir thriller written by the director of CARRIE, SCARFACE and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. Available NOW directly from Sticking Place Books. stickingplacebooks.com/ambrose-chap...

Congratulations to the winner of the Sticking Place Books giveaway! A copy of Neil Hornick's THE MAGIC EYE: THE CINEMA OF STANLEY KUBRICK will be heading out to Centreville, Virginia, shortly! There will be another giveaway before long, so keep an eye out!

To celebrate AMBROSE CHAPEL's publication today, we will be giving away one softcover Sticking Place Book of your choice (including Chapel) TONIGHT! Just follow us, like us, and repost this (those who already have can just retweet this for an additional chance to win!)

AMBROSE CHAPEL order page is now live. Shipping immediately!

"I'm writing this book with the working title Camera Movements That Confound Us, and I've been doing most of the writing while I'm stoned. I find that it affects the kind of book I'm doing and the way I write about things"- Jonathan Rosenbaum The results available now from SPB!

Not your typical film book. No footnotes, no thesis, no linear argument: just a handpicked smorgasbord of filmmaker insights, quoted, annotated, sometimes challenged, always respected. Adrian Martin's FILMMAKERS THINKING invites you into the minds behind the camera. From Sticking Place Books.

The first review is in! Just a reminder, Brian De Palma's AMBROSE CHAPEL is available from the usual online suspects (Amazon, B & N), but you can get it much cheaper, hardcover or softcover, direct from Sticking Place Books starting tomorrow. stickingplacebooks.com/ambrose-chap...

"Here he is, one of the greatest of us all, the originator and master of the minimalist epic, the visionary who has raised the cinema of humanity to an unprecedented level of purity" Mike Leigh on LESSONS WITH KIAROSTAMI, from Sticking Place Books. stickingplacebooks.com/lessons-with...

"In my first version [of SNAKE EYES], God created a wave that punishes Gary Sinise...the problem [is today] nobody believes in...the Burning Bush. MAGNOLIA was criticized for its ending, where millions of frogs fall from the sky. But I like it" DE PALMA ON DE PALMA out now from SPB.

“In [this book]Herzog and his films encounter the rigor and nuances of David LaRocca’s remarkable philosophical mind at work. The result is a terrifically compelling and insightful study” —Timothy Corrigan, editor of The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History Order direct from SPB

From the intro: “A masterwork scribbled in invisible ink, awaiting the right light to reveal its design" Brian De Palma’s unproduced screwball noir AMBROSE CHAPEL — coming May 26th from Sticking Place Books.

On publication date of Brian De Palma's AMBROSE CHAPEL (the 26th) we'll give away one of these De Palma books...or ANY Sticking Place softcover you want...in celebration. Just follow SPB, like this & repost it. (If you've already follow, just like & repost to be entered again!)

“This plane’s a flying fuel tank. We’re gonna fly or we’re gonna burn.” From David Mamet’s Russian Poland — an unproduced screenplay of faith, flight, and fire, finally in print. Coming in June from Sticking Place Books.