Empire Movie Miscellany

Oct 9, 2024 3:18 AM

Author:Empire Magazine

From the team who brought you The Empire Film Guide, here are all the obscure, indecent and downright bizarre movie facts and figures that were not considered sensible for a practical film guide.

Discover which country translated GI Jane as Satan Female Soldier, which Hollywood heartthrob is the lead singer of 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, and which country takes a bag of toasted leaf cutter ants to the cinema instead of popcorn!

The Schott's Miscellany of movies, packed full of movie facts, figures and lists, as well as explanations of filmmaking terminology and a "shot miscellany" - a list of all the various camera shots. You will soon know your Oscar Hosts from your Monty Python French insults, and never be short of small talk again!

Reviews

This book is absolutely wonderful - I just read four passages out loud to the Word staff - to actual applause!

—— Mark Ellen , The Word

Wise, funny and loving - a brilliant memoir about Britpop and possibly the best rock biography since Nik Cohn's AwopBopAlooBop-AlopBamBoom

—— Tony Parsons

Funny, readable and filled with proper gossip. Most importantly, it's a perceptive and tenacious look at what it was really like to be a girl among the blokes in that era

—— Alexandra Heminsley , The New Review, Independent on Sunday

Wener charts the story of her rise from suburban schoolgirl to 1990s pin-up with Indie group Sleeper. Her tone is warm, funny and self-deprecating - and she's not afraid to prick a few egos along the way

—— Daily Mirror

An amusing insight into the banality of band life, and a cautionary tale about the cost of getting what you always wanted

—— The Quietus

Teen love, bad haircuts, great music and laugh-out-loud memories

—— Fearne Cotton

(This week Sam has been) laughing, crying and over-identifying with Louise Wener's hilarious memoir, Different For Girls

—— Sam Baker - Editor of Red Magazine

Thoroughly entertaining

—— Record Collector

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