The indispensable pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach. ALSO AVAILABLE: Close-Ups: Wes Anderson Close-Ups: Vampire Movies The indispensable pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach. ALSO AVAILABLE: Close-Ups: Wes Anderson Close-Ups: Vampire Movies New York has always been one of the world’s most filmed cities, with its apartments housing tenants like Rosemary's baby and the Royal Tenenbaums, its skyscrapers scaled by the likes of King Kong and graffiti artists and its rubble-strewn streets prowled by everyone from Travis Bickle to Carrie Bradshaw. In this pocket guide to New York and its movies, Mark Asch explores the Big Apple block by block and neighbourhood by neighbourhood, jogging past the iconic bench from Manhattan, eating at Katz’s Deli from When Harry Met Sally and mooching around the Coney Island boardwalk like one of The Warriors. Retracing the steps of countless iconic actors, cinematographers and directors, he draws up a unique cinematic map of The City That Never Sleeps. Praise for Little White Lies: ‘The most beautiful film magazine on the shelves’ Guardian Mark Asch served as Film Editor for The L Magazine and its sister publication Brooklyn Magazine, on and off, from 2007 to 2017. A graduate of NYU's Cinema Studies program, he has lived in Alphabet City, in the same building as Richard Kern; in Bed-Stuy halfway between the locations of Do the Right Thing and Dave Chappelle's Block Party; in Clinton Hill, where he shopped at the same Met Foods where the young Notorious B.I.G. bagged groceries; and in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, a few blocks down from the old Ebbets Field and Freddie Fitzsimmons Lanes, where Shirley MacLaine rolls a few frames in Desperate Characters. • FIRST SERIES FROM CULT FILM MAGAZINE: Little White Lies is an award-winning British film magazine, described by the Guardian as ‘the most beautiful film magazine on the shelves’, with a print readership of 60k and a digital readership of 500k unique users per month. They are stocked in WH Smiths, Barnes & Noble, independents, boutiques and Ace Hotel, with an audience demographic of 18-45. The magazine retails at £6, so at £9.99 the Close-Ups books aren’t a big jump for that core readership. • BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED POCKET GUIDES: The Close-Ups series brings together the best young film journalists and illustrators, who explore their subjects with wit, verve and expert authority, in all sorts of idiosyncratic and unconventional ways. In stark contrast to the sterner, more academic film guides on the market (e.g. BFI Classics) Close-Ups are be refreshingly fun and accessible – more gift books than stodgy film textbooks. Key comparisons include the Wallpaper* City Guides (400k TCM) and the 33 1/3 series (80k TCM). • PROMISING YOUNG FILM CRITIC: Mark Asch served as Film Editor for The L Magazine and its sister publication Brooklyn Magazine.
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