Books in Films

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Jim's gf Alison Steadman doesn't look very sweet about his reading.
[/CENTER]

That's the trouble with Mike Leigh films, too much gratuitous book reading in bed

[theuofc]

That's the trouble with Mike Leigh films, too much gratuitous book reading in bed

Yeah, what are books doing in Mike Leigh's kitchen sink realism anyhow!

[theuofc]

Charles Hawtrey as Pvt. 'Professor' Hatchett reads The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám to Harem girls in I Only Arsked (1958):

[billy farmer]

A screencap of Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window (1954) reading the Book - Beyond The High Himalayas.



Beyond The High Himalayas, Author - William O. Douglas.



First published in 1952.

[DB7]

A young squaddie in Invasion (1966).

[bruiser15]

The World Ten Times Over Soho market, i've identified the top and middle right facing us





Whilst this is what Sylvis Syms is looking at in a certain sort of book shop window

[Culpepper]

It is thirty years or more since I saw the film of John Fowles' The Magus, and I can remember very little about it, except that Woody Allen was once asked what he would change if he could live his life all over again, and he said, "Nothing, except that I wouldn't watch The Magus."

However, I do know that Pauline Kael said of it, "Probably the only film in which one will ever see a copy of (William) Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity."

Similarly, I have never seen Hairspray, and have no wish to, but I have seen a still from it, in which the unattractive and untalented Pia "She's in the attic!" Zadora was reading a copy of Ginsberg's Howl.

Now, she really did have the sort of face only a father could love!

[Gerald Lovell]

Talk of fake books in the TV thread can feature here too:



Margaret Rutherford's reading matter in Murder She Said (1961), disdainfully regarded by ticket collector Peter Butterworth.

[moonfleet]

Do living books count ??



Peter Greeenaway's THE PILLOW BOOK

[theuofc]

When I was looking through my Dirk pics of DADDY NOSTALGIE to post something about its September screening at the BFI, I came across this one of Daddy (Dirk) reading Virginia Woolf's TO THE LIGHTHOUSE.

I did a cursory and unsuccessful search for the specific edition which would be 1990 or earlier. Can anyone find it?




Thanks. Hugh! you'd find it in a flash. Come back here.

Barbara

[scraller]

Barbara,


Here's a very small image of the cover, though couldn't locate which edition it was:



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[theuofc]

Barbara,


Here's a very small image of the cover, though couldn't locate which edition it was:



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Brilliant! If anyone could find it, it'd be you Micky! It's probably a UK edition, wouldn't you think? I'm excited that you tracked it down. Thanks to you, now we have a better image of the cover to work with.

Barbara

[scraller]

Brilliant! If anyone could find it, it'd be you Micky! It's probably a UK edition, wouldn't you think? I'm excited that you tracked it down. Thanks to you, now we have a better image of the cover to work with.

Barbara

Thanks! I'm thinking it's a UK edition too. Maybe late '70s? Only problem is, there are hundreds of covers for this book. Makes the brain spin

[theuofc]

Thanks! I'm thinking it's a UK edition too. Maybe late '70s? Only problem is, there are hundreds of covers for this book. Makes the brain spin

I hear your pain. I started wading through all the covers of To the Lighthouse (great to look at but a real time eater) and quickly realised that your image is good enough for me! We'll come across more information on the specific edition, but for now, I'm really glad you found it. Best sleuth going.

All the best,

Barbara

[Gerald Lovell]

Here's another fake book from a Miss Marple film which contains important plot points within its simulated pages:



From Murder Ahoy (1964).

[GRAEME]

Apologies if we've done this one...

Rewatching Hard Day's Night recently, wondered what book Ringo is reading in the scene with Wilfred Bramble where the "clean old man tells him to get his nose out of a book?

It really looks like a film-tie-in edition of Anatomy of a Murder...

[Freddy]

39 Steps

Noticed 'Fishpot' Miss Fisher is reading 'Anatomy of a Murder' in the railway carriage when Kenneth More enters. At the start the film 'Nanny' Robinson has a book by CT Stoneham in her pram

[Timmy_Lea]