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Original Title: | The Egos Have Landed: Rise and Fall of Palace Pictures |
ISBN: | 0749319461 (ISBN13: 9780749319465) |
Edition Language: | English |
Angus Finney
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.71 | 17 Users | 4 Reviews
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This is a sweeping overview/memoir of Palace Pictures, the upstart English production house that shook things up in the 80s and early 90s, taking in the story of its co-chairmen Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley at the same time. Well written, with interviews from just about everyone involved in the Palace story, this runs at a good pace and has a nice mixture of showbusiness nitty gritty (Powell seems to have spent all his time chasing money) and gossip, whilst also painting a vivid picture of a changing film industry. Although it’s nicely detailed, it does appear to completely ignore some Palace films (some get a name-check but that’s all) but that aside, this is a good read and makes you wish that Palace had stayed around for a while longer (especially when you look at the list of their film credits). Highly recommended.Particularize Of Books The Egos Have Landed: Rise and Fall of Palace Pictures
Title | : | The Egos Have Landed: Rise and Fall of Palace Pictures |
Author | : | Angus Finney |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
Published | : | August 20th 1997 by Arrow Books Ltd (first published April 29th 1996) |
Categories | : | Culture. Film. Nonfiction |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 17 Users | 4 ReviewsCriticism Of Books The Egos Have Landed: Rise and Fall of Palace Pictures
This is a sweeping overview/memoir of Palace Pictures, the upstart English production house that shook things up in the 80s and early 90s, taking in the story of its co-chairmen Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley at the same time. Well written, with interviews from just about everyone involved in the Palace story, this runs at a good pace and has a nice mixture of showbusiness nitty gritty (Powell seems to have spent all his time chasing money) and gossip, whilst also painting a vivid picture of a
Jolly entertaining film biz war story about the rise and fall of Palace Pictures
Re-reading it for work. At worst, a bit like ploughing through a spreadsheet, at best, a fascinating study of the little studio that could - for a while.
An interesting overview of Palace Pictures. But, compared to the wonderful "My Indecision is Final" by Terry Illiot and Jake Eberts it's rather sketchy and not especially detailed.
This is a sweeping overview/memoir of Palace Pictures, the upstart English production house that shook things up in the 80s and early 90s, taking in the story of its co-chairmen Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley at the same time. Well written, with interviews from just about everyone involved in the Palace story, this runs at a good pace and has a nice mixture of showbusiness nitty gritty (Powell seems to have spent all his time chasing money) and gossip, whilst also painting a vivid picture of a
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