false 243162 10 <div>From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the dreams of every moviegoer. Jonathan Gates could not have anticipated that his student studies would lead him to uncover the secret history of the movies&#8212;a tale of intrigue, deception, and death that stretches back to the 14th century. But he succumbs to what will be a lifelong obsession with the mysterious Max Castle, a nearly forgotten genius of the silent screen who later became the greatest director of horror films, only to vanish in the 1940s, at the height of his talent. Now, 20 years later, as Jonathan seeks the truth behind Castle's disappearance, the innocent entertainments of his youth&#8212;the sexy sirens, the screwball comedies, the high romance&#8212;take on a sinister appearance. His tortured quest takes him from Hollywood's Poverty Row into the shadowy lore of ancient religious heresies. He encounters a cast of exotic characters, including Orson Welles and John Huston, who teach him that there's more to film than meets the eye, and journeys through the dark side of nostalgia, where the Three Stooges and Shirley Temple join company with an alien god whose purposes are anything but entertainment.<br></div> 235581 book 1991 Flicker: A Novel total:194|5:67|4:77|3:33|2:15|1:2| 194 774 292 46 5 4 false false Sun Sep 23 16:11:46 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 16:15:27 -0700 2007
Just keep telling yourself - it's all just a story.]]> 4 3 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:06:22 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 01 08:30:10 -0800 2008 1 Flicker is the book that he would write. Crammed to overflowing with film lore and history, Flicker is both a crash course in film th...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Feb 18 20:42:27 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 18:31:37 -0800 2008 Creepy, inventive thriller.

Intelligent, unsettling thriller about a bright young film student fascinated with the work of Max Castle, a vanished director from the 40's, a German expat (à la Fritz Lang) who imbued grade-Z horror schlock with a genuinely unnerving aura. He gradually disco...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jul 02 22:57:21 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 22:59:03 -0700 2007 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 04:02:41 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 04:05:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 17:25:11 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 17:27:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 18:25:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 19:41:59 -0700 2009 Jonathan Gates interest in films takes us to "The Classic" an art house movie theater on Fairfax (I kept vi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 09:11:33 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 09:18:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jan 21 09:22:57 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 09:22:57 -0800 2008
It must be twenty-five years ago now I tried to read Theodore Roszak's novel Bugs. I found it painfully boring, and never finished it. While the name stuck in my head for some odd reason, I never had any desire to read anything else the man wrote.
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Hands down one of my favorite novels dealing with the history of the silver screen, and of it's hypnotic powers as well. A fascinating job is done of weaving myth around history, painting a landscape of paranoia and sec...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 07:12:49 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 07:22:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Jan 03 12:52:18 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:54:51 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 15:51:04 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 15:52:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 20 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Mar 26 15:15:56 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 15:15:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 09 07:05:38 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 07:08:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 16:47:22 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 16:48:57 -0700 2009