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James Kenney
@jfkenney.bsky.social
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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 · 6h
Obscure Roger Moore of the day: In celebration of RMs birthday today in 1927!! Bill Condon (Gods & Monsters, Dreamgirls, new Kiss of the Spider Woman) directs 1994's MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE, with a great cast: the aforementioned Moore, Nancy Allen, Malcom McDowell!

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 17h
DAN AUGUST's Burt Reynolds and Norman Fell!
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 19h
Adrienne Shelley and Robert John Burke in Hal Hartley's UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 20h
NIGHTHAWKS playing in Staten Island in 1981!
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d
this stuff is already published!
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d
Obscure YT of the day: the excellent MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (1973) about a court-martialed exile. Delbert Mann (MARTY) directs. Great cast: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Robert Ryan, Peter Strauss, Peter Weller, Geoffrey Holder.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d
Published next month, with a foreword by yours truly including photos from Larry Cohen's private collection.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
Diane Keaton back when she was in HAIR on Broadway in 1970. (W/ Barry McGuire & Steve Curry).
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
Charles M. Schulz was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
Susan Seidelman & Roseanna Arquette talk DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN after screening at @RoxyCinemaNYC yesterday evening. Good times. Just wish I could've stayed for Abel Ferrara & NEW ROSE HOTEL after!
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
SNL premiered 50 years ago tonight.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah I liked his Summer Days, Summer Nights from a few years ago if you didn't see that one yet
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
Taking my kids to see DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN w Seidleman and Arquette it attendance at the Roxy.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d
R.I.P.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d
In the home stretch.

I hope someone is in the mood for a Larry Cohen memoir filled with photos!
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Sticking Place Books @stickingplacebk.bsky.social · 3d
Sticking Place Books presents the first comprehensive presentation of Chaplin’s last, unfinished film project, THE FREAK. The Guardian has run an article detailing this incredible book.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published
Exclusive: Fantasy about ‘a beautiful creature with wings’ has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches
www.theguardian.com
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d
The films that almost were. Unproduced, unfinished, or unseen-these screenplays open new chapters in film history.

Unrealized visions by Chaplin, Sturges, De Palma, Mamet, Herzog, Cohen & Rubin.

Resurrected.

More coming soon.

From Sticking Place Books.
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
I only listened to it once, it's behind a paywall now? Tarantino needs the money???
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
Steady Eddie snuck another one in when we weren't looking!
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
Obscure YT of the day:

Weird sci-fi western hybrid WELCOME TO BLOOD CITY (1977!) Peter Sasdy (TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA) directs! Jack Palance, Samantha Egger, Keir Dullea, Barry Morse star!

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
Charlie Chaplin's unfinished dream project is brought to light. New from SPB: THE FREAK, detailing the film, its story, w/ photos, primary documents, storyboards, the script. Unbelievably essential. (I have nothing to do with this project!)

stickingplacebooks.com/charles-chap...
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
THE FREAK: this remarkable volume publishes Charles Chaplin’s complete screenplay for his final, unmade film alongside storyboards, designs, photos and production notes. Essential. Out now from SPB. stickingplacebooks.com/charles-chap...
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
Now reading
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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d
Yup