By
Leroy Douresseaux
July 18, 2009 - 08:00
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Sprocket: Gaps in Film is a collection of humorous articles about peculiar movies, but the films discussed in this book are not real and were never made. Such films as “Pericles” (in which talking Greek architecture – buildings with mouths – give account of the historical Athenian leader), “Dump, the Musical,” “Kill, Cheerleader, Kill,” and “Gopher: The Boy Who Saved a Dog,” among others, are mere creations the Candle Light Press crew.
This book is a parody of both big budget, high concept, genre films gone bad and the journalism that chronicles them. Sprocket is like a comic take on Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen, the 1990 book produced by the National Society of Film Critics that championed quality films which for various reasons could not connect with a broad audience. The exception here is that Sprocket: Gaps in Film is a This is Spinal Tap version of that book. Film lovers who also love to dig around in the chaos and wasteland of film production will love this book, although it is a false record of nonexistent films. Still, this is more entertaining than a lot of movies these days.
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