Hi Michael, Only read one of these books, just last year. My Lunches With Orson. I absolutely loved it. Read it in two sittings and wished it had never ended. What an erudite man! Filled with all kinds of facts and gossip, you will not be able to put it down if you're a lover of cinema. One thing I remember--he hated Hitchcock's films. So refreshing to hear from a man who is not afraid to ruffle feathers. Congrats on your channel milestone and thanks for another excellent, thought provoking post.
@@michaelbartlettfilm Though I've yet to catch up with it, the film-within-the-film in 'The Other Side of the Wind' is supposedly a parody of Antonioni.
@@barrymoore4470 Yeah, though amusingly, in an outtake of Welles filming Oja Kodar's nude scenes, he shouts, "Russ Meyer rides again!" or words to that effect!
Will definitely check out a few of these, including My Lunches with Orson, and the Phantom Islands of the Atlantic book, being fascinated with maps as I am. The Capitalism book also sounds interesting, after having heard you out on that. Congratulations on hitting the 1,000 mark!
Another very enjoyable and interesting video, Mike! Thank you, and congratulations again on 1,000 subscribers! (I just sent you an email asking about your trip to Easter Island, which is on my bucket list of places to go!)
Fascinated with remote islands as both my parents, born in 1920s Connemara Gaeltacht, were both natives of now uninhabited islands and we're forced to move to coastal villages at a young age. John Millington Synge's account of the Aran Islands and his shorter work on the Great Blaskets are among my favorite "travel" writings.
Oh, I'm fascinated by those islands and would love to visit them. What a shame they had to leave. Though I imagine life was quite tough. I used to subtitle RTE news, and I always perked up whenever there was a story about greater connectivity to off-the-coast islands, or a new service so they could keep going.
Fascinating stuff as ever. Some I have, like the Atlas of Remote Islands, Capitalist Realism - and all Fisher's other books which I think will appeal your audience as they cover the weird, the eerie, hauntology etc - A Trigan Empire collection (mine's from the 1970s), while the others were totally unknown to me but very intriguing (like you I love a retro 'ufo/mystery' paperback - I used to have, and wish I'd kept, a book on the Loch Ness Monster written by Nicholas Witchell, now the hilariously fawning and 'ghastly' BBC Royal Correspondent). Good to see the big up for Bob Mortimer too - what a gem, I even watch his and Paul Whitehouse's fishing programme just cause they are the protagonists (having zero interest in angling)!
Thanks, Tony! I can watch Bob in anything. Have you listened to Atletico Mince? Some of his best stuff in that. Peter Beardsley's joke book, Roy Hodgson playing Warhammer...
I actually have three volumes of "The Trigan Empire", but haven't read them yet. Got them digitally as part of a "Treasury of British Comics" Humble Bundle. On the theme of vintage comics, I recently became enchanted with a girls' comic from 1978 called "Misty". Again, I only discovered it because I had three graphic novels in the same Humble Bundle. But the stories were such fun. Proper horror stories (one a blatant rip-off of "Carrie"), but marketed as a girl's comic purely because the protagonists in the stories were teenage girls.
I vaguely remember Misty, but I didn't realise it was so weighted to the supernatural. I used to love a strip in Tornado - Wolfie Smith - about a boy who had psychic powers.
I'm not a sports fan myself, so am not well versed on sports movies, but noting your lament at the dearth of good football films, I was reminded of an Hungarian comedy from 1973, directed by Pál Sándor, called 'Football of the Good Old Days' ('Régi idők focija' in Hungarian). I've not actually seen this one, but I understand it enjoys classic status in Hungary, and might prove a valuable addition to an underrepresented genre.
Also a good football movie - well, kind of - is Jafar Panahi's Offside, about some female fans trying to get in to see a World Cup game featuring their home country, Iran.
@@michaelbartlettfilm Trust me, you'd read War and Peace really fast. I couldn't put it down. I was so sorry I'd finished it that I was tempted to start re-reading it immediately.
@@marisacastledejoncaire6674 It's on my to-do list! Along with Moby Dick, and Vanity Fair, and... Oh, loads of others! I've got to get ready for all those big Russian names - "How are you, Alexei Stepanovich Mikolovic?" "All right, Grigori Dimitrivic Gregoranovic!"
I must find a copy of Remote Islands, Since I watched Thunderbirds I wanted my own Island, I even have Name for my Inland, "Shittspaclle Island" one of my Wife's Nicknames for me, ( Durogerty of course) " Boonging" is her other favorite, A real word this time, ( if you find the origin of "Boonging" you will know her nationality) Thanks for posting Michael, congratulations on your first thousand, Oh..I seen the film of Aniara something to "Neck yourself" By. My Weird book is " The Other World" by Cyrano de Bergerac
The Trigan Empire!!! Yes I was one of those who read Look and Learn back in the day. Loved the Trigan Empire. One story in particular has always stuck with me, the one about the inhabitants of the capital city waking up one morning to find their city a jungle of vines. The next day it is back to normal. This repeats several times until the hero discovers that at night the plants are being harvested by troglodytes, a bit like vegetarian Morlocks. Cannot remember how it is resolved, maybe need to invest in that comic book series. The best epic comic story from my youth was Charlie's War which has been republished as a series of graphic novel type albums. Great, quite gutsy story telling for a comic aimed at teenagers. I think you would like it.
I remember it in Battle comic. Sadly, I didn't like war strips at that age, but now I think I'd appreciate it better. Will check out the first book and see what I make of it. (Wikipedia says it was so graphic, it got censored!)
Hi Michael, Only read one of these books, just last year. My Lunches With Orson. I absolutely loved it. Read it in two sittings and wished it had never ended. What an erudite man! Filled with all kinds of facts and gossip, you will not be able to put it down if you're a lover of cinema. One thing I remember--he hated Hitchcock's films. So refreshing to hear from a man who is not afraid to ruffle feathers.
Congrats on your channel milestone and thanks for another excellent, thought provoking post.
Thanks, Willie! I seem to remember he also hated Antonioni. And he wasn't too keen on Godard. (But he loved Michael Caine!)
@@michaelbartlettfilm Though I've yet to catch up with it, the film-within-the-film in 'The Other Side of the Wind' is supposedly a parody of Antonioni.
@@barrymoore4470 Yeah, though amusingly, in an outtake of Welles filming Oja Kodar's nude scenes, he shouts, "Russ Meyer rides again!" or words to that effect!
Will definitely check out a few of these, including My Lunches with Orson, and the Phantom Islands of the Atlantic book, being fascinated with maps as I am. The Capitalism book also sounds interesting, after having heard you out on that. Congratulations on hitting the 1,000 mark!
Thanks, Frank!
Another very enjoyable and interesting video, Mike! Thank you, and congratulations again on 1,000 subscribers!
(I just sent you an email asking about your trip to Easter Island, which is on my bucket list of places to go!)
Thanks, Julie! (Just replied!)
@@michaelbartlettfilm Yes, I received your email. Thanks very much. I am sending a reply to your reply. 😄
I did see the film Aniara, which i did enjoy. I didn't know it was a book. I have to get my hand on that 1st book of maps.
Congratulations on 1k
Thanks, Steve! I liked the film Aniara, too.
Fascinated with remote islands as both my parents, born in 1920s Connemara Gaeltacht, were both natives of now uninhabited islands and we're forced to move to coastal villages at a young age. John Millington Synge's account of the Aran Islands and his shorter work on the Great Blaskets are among my favorite "travel" writings.
Oh, I'm fascinated by those islands and would love to visit them. What a shame they had to leave. Though I imagine life was quite tough. I used to subtitle RTE news, and I always perked up whenever there was a story about greater connectivity to off-the-coast islands, or a new service so they could keep going.
Fascinating stuff as ever. Some I have, like the Atlas of Remote Islands, Capitalist Realism - and all Fisher's other books which I think will appeal your audience as they cover the weird, the eerie, hauntology etc - A Trigan Empire collection (mine's from the 1970s), while the others were totally unknown to me but very intriguing (like you I love a retro 'ufo/mystery' paperback - I used to have, and wish I'd kept, a book on the Loch Ness Monster written by Nicholas Witchell, now the hilariously fawning and 'ghastly' BBC Royal Correspondent). Good to see the big up for Bob Mortimer too - what a gem, I even watch his and Paul Whitehouse's fishing programme just cause they are the protagonists (having zero interest in angling)!
Thanks, Tony! I can watch Bob in anything. Have you listened to Atletico Mince? Some of his best stuff in that. Peter Beardsley's joke book, Roy Hodgson playing Warhammer...
I actually have three volumes of "The Trigan Empire", but haven't read them yet. Got them digitally as part of a "Treasury of British Comics" Humble Bundle. On the theme of vintage comics, I recently became enchanted with a girls' comic from 1978 called "Misty". Again, I only discovered it because I had three graphic novels in the same Humble Bundle. But the stories were such fun. Proper horror stories (one a blatant rip-off of "Carrie"), but marketed as a girl's comic purely because the protagonists in the stories were teenage girls.
I vaguely remember Misty, but I didn't realise it was so weighted to the supernatural. I used to love a strip in Tornado - Wolfie Smith - about a boy who had psychic powers.
Cheers Mike - love Bob Mortimer too!
He's top smart!
I'm not a sports fan myself, so am not well versed on sports movies, but noting your lament at the dearth of good football films, I was reminded of an Hungarian comedy from 1973, directed by Pál Sándor, called 'Football of the Good Old Days' ('Régi idők focija' in Hungarian). I've not actually seen this one, but I understand it enjoys classic status in Hungary, and might prove a valuable addition to an underrepresented genre.
Also a good football movie - well, kind of - is Jafar Panahi's Offside, about some female fans trying to get in to see a World Cup game featuring their home country, Iran.
Honorable mentions: Devil Worship in France, by Arthur Edward Waite.
When the Martians came to Huddersfield.
Ha! Check out the one review on Amazon for Devil Worship In France!
Can you do a video talking about how fast you read, and the benefits of reading either faster or slower?
Ha, I'm a VERY slow reader! That's what puts me off so many huge tomes, like War and Peace. I'd be reading that for the next ten years!
@@michaelbartlettfilm Trust me, you'd read War and Peace really fast. I couldn't put it down. I was so sorry I'd finished it that I was tempted to start re-reading it immediately.
@@marisacastledejoncaire6674 It's on my to-do list! Along with Moby Dick, and Vanity Fair, and... Oh, loads of others! I've got to get ready for all those big Russian names - "How are you, Alexei Stepanovich Mikolovic?" "All right, Grigori Dimitrivic Gregoranovic!"
@@michaelbartlettfilmHa, ha!
I must find a copy of Remote Islands, Since I watched Thunderbirds I wanted my own Island, I even have Name for my Inland, "Shittspaclle Island" one of my Wife's Nicknames for me, ( Durogerty of course) " Boonging" is her other favorite, A real word this time, ( if you find the origin of "Boonging" you will know her nationality)
Thanks for posting Michael, congratulations on your first thousand,
Oh..I seen the film of Aniara something to "Neck yourself" By.
My Weird book is " The Other World" by Cyrano de Bergerac
Thanks, mate! I must check out the Cyrano book - I've missed that for some reason.
people USED to believe flat and hollow earth? 😂
The Trigan Empire!!! Yes I was one of those who read Look and Learn back in the day. Loved the Trigan Empire. One story in particular has always stuck with me, the one about the inhabitants of the capital city waking up one morning to find their city a jungle of vines. The next day it is back to normal. This repeats several times until the hero discovers that at night the plants are being harvested by troglodytes, a bit like vegetarian Morlocks. Cannot remember how it is resolved, maybe need to invest in that comic book series.
The best epic comic story from my youth was Charlie's War which has been republished as a series of graphic novel type albums. Great, quite gutsy story telling for a comic aimed at teenagers. I think you would like it.
I remember it in Battle comic. Sadly, I didn't like war strips at that age, but now I think I'd appreciate it better. Will check out the first book and see what I make of it. (Wikipedia says it was so graphic, it got censored!)
search sam the sandown clown
Thanks for telling me about that - I'd never come across that one!