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James Kenney

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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 · 11h

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 · 15h

Charles M. Schulz was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 15h

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!

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

SNL premiered 50 years ago tonight.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I liked his Summer Days, Summer Nights from a few years ago if you didn't see that one yet

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

R.I.P.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

I only listened to it once, it's behind a paywall now? Tarantino needs the money???

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

Steady Eddie snuck another one in when we weren't looking!

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

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!

youtu.be/iq1Zcx55TIY?...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 2d

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...

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

Now reading

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Yup

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Alongside Larry Cohen's memoirs, I'm writing the forward to Larry Cohen's unproduced screenplay HEADHUNTER. This book will also have some cool rare photos from Cohen's career in it.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Obscure YT of the day: In honor of our coming Larry Cohen books, LC's USA cable movie AS GOOD AS DEAD (95)! He wrote and directed this, it's pure Cohen. Crystal Bernard, Judge Reinhold and Traci Lords star! He tells an intriguing Traci Lords anecdote in his memoir!

youtu.be/z804s_ugYTA?...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3d

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 3d

Larry Cohen doing post-production on WICKED STEPMOTHER (Barbara Carrera on screen).

“Larry Cohen was outrageous. Larry Cohen was a hustler. Larry Cohen was a maverick. And Larry Cohen was a visionary. I miss him.”

—From John Landis’s Forword to LC's memoir, coming next month.

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

The movies I've walked out of (as far as I can recall):

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Getaway remake with Baldwin & Basinger
The Luzhin Defence
Breakfast of Champions

The one I wish I did so I could have however much of my life back.

She Hate Me

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

I review Hal Hartley's new film, WHERE TO LAND! Zardoz has spoken!

tremblesighwonder.com/2025/10/08/t...

“The Beginning of Thinking”: Hal Hartley’s Where to Land

Hal Hartley is back, which is good news.

tremblesighwonder.com

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Nah, I'd think it's more they're both referencing "America, the Beautiful" ("O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain...") :)

James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

Obscure YT of the day:

Hitchhiking male model (Kurt Russell) gets work on farm of angry wheat farmer (Dennis Weaver) in AMBER WAVES (1980). Mare Winningham won Emmy as Weaver's daughter. Joseph Sargent (PELHAM 123) directs!

youtu.be/BYLhN3-c0SQ?...

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