Friday 1 March 2024

Alrightreads: Films V

Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

1985 / Ebook / 259 pages

****

Not as good as the film, but some fun deleted scenes and illuminating context for minor details.


Alastair Phillips, Tokyo Story

2022 / Ebook / 112 pages

***

Developers' guide for the painstaking mundanity simulation.


Kunio Hara, Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro

2020 / Ebook / 184 pages

***

Unavoidably a celebration of the joyful film as much as its inextricable and sometimes somewhat strange music.


Paul Farley, Distant Voices, Still Lives

2006 / Ebook / 96 pages

****

Authenticity appraisal and poetic paean.


David Bishop, Randall D. Larson and John Freeman, Back to the Future Annual

1990 / Ebook / 64 pages

***

Not bad for a Christmas cash-in, but basically the three-in-one souvenir magazine with some interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets padded by redundant plot summaries. In fairness, the last video wouldn't be out for a while.