Its Only a Movie, Mark Kermode
Its Only a Movie, Mark Kermode
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It's Only a Movie
Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

Author: Mark Kermode

Narrator: Mark Kermode

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2010

Synopsis

To avoid fainting, keep repeating

It's only a move
..only a movie
..only a movie
..only a movie

If you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage exposé of the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your formative years at the cinema. Just as likely, you soon would have realised that there was only one career open to you - you'd have to become a film critic.

In It's only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he embarks on a gut-wrenching journey through the former Soviet Union on the trail of the low budget horror flick Dark Waters, cringe as he's handbagged by Helen Mirren at the Bafta awards ceremony, cheer as he gets thrown out of the Cannes film festival for heckling in very bad French, and don't forget to gasp as he's shot at while interviewing Werner Herzog in the Hollywood hills. Written with sardonic wit and wry good humour, this compelling cinematic memoir is genuinely 'inspired by real events'.

About Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode is Chief Film Critic for the OBSERVER and co-host of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. He is the author of IT'S ONLY A MOVIE; THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE MULTIPLEX; THE MOVIE DOCTORS (with Simon Mayo); HATCHET JOB, hailed by Stephen Fry as 'the finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' and HOW DOES IT FEEL?, a memoir about his life in music. He plays double bass and harmonica in The Dodge Brothers, the award-winning skiffle-and-blues band, who also accompany silent movies. He has written and presented film and music shows on Channel 4 and across BBC radio and television. He holds two Sony Awards for his radio programmes, and The Dodge Brothers album The Sun Set was voted Blues Album of the Year 2013 by the roots music magazine SPIRAL EARTH.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy on February 16, 2011

Mark Kermode is one of those people who drifted around on the fringes of my awareness for years before I actually became aware of him as an individual: initially as the 'double bass player with a doctorate in horror films' on the house band of even-obscure-at-the-time-it-went-out talk show Danny Bak......more

Goodreads review by Baba on May 05, 2020

Subtitled 'Real Life Adventures of a Movie Obsessive', the very readable, well written biography of Mark Kermode, much more centred on what he does and has seen, than so much about the 'real' Mark. Another clever thing about this book, is how it isn't a 'fanboy' work on the details of movies and mov......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on January 19, 2011

I love the Kermode, make no bones about it. The man is -by some margin- the most engaging and honest voice out there when it comes to films. Whether he be wrong or right. Personally I think the alchemy of the man himself is the most interesting thing about him: A God-bothering Old Trot feminist who......more

Goodreads review by Woflmao on May 15, 2016

Fans of Mark Kermode will not be surprised or disappointed by this book. Each chapter contains an episode of Kermode's life, told by him as if it were a movie "based on real events". Along the way, he introduces, reviews and rambles-on-about the movies that shaped his life or at least his career as......more

Goodreads review by Libby on November 12, 2023

This was more a memoir of film-adjacent moments in Kermode’s life than simply a book of thoughts on certain films, directors, etc. However they were still wittily, if not concisely, told.......more

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