However, there were so many passages in which this just read like endless pretentious musings on film. Ingenious tale of the internal world of a BFI bagman, a figure which I have become fully conscious of and was glad for the insight.

Brian by Jeremy Cooper The quiet joy of a deep interest: Brian by Jeremy Cooper

Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. The necessary questions to ask, in my opinion, are: do depictions of the characters and happenings convince in themselves; and does the text construct a fictional edifice which functions effectively within its own terms? A magnificently gentle and poetic meditation on isolation mitigated by cinema, the subtle effects of trauma, and the odd pathways open to us, the damaged … all of us. Without knowing quite why, or needing to find out, since missing its release a decade earlier he had always wanted to see Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales, a clip from the trailer fixed in permanent memory, the moment when a bounty hunter tracking Eastwood muttered to his partner: ‘Not a hard man to follow.Brian (het boek) laat zich niet alleen omschrijven als bijna een catalogus aan films en filmkritiek, maar ook een toonbeeld van hoe kunst een leven kan verrijken en er ook betekenis in kan brengen.

Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude Fact, Fiction, and Film: Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude

The only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is that I thought Cooper left unexplored some of the philosophical interest of Brian's story.The Talacre Gardens fiasco impelled urgent action and after a visit to the watch-repairer in The Cut on a Saturday afternoon not long after seeing The Outlaw Josey Wales, Brian grasped the moment, walked on over to the South Bank and filled in the inexpensive BFI membership form. The book explores the imagined life of a fictional film buff, written by a film enthusiast for whom cinema is only a secondary concern, other subjects taking a central place in my life. Many of the stories told of public appearances by key directors—Werner Herzog, for instance, and Derek Jarman—did indeed happen much as described, witnessed by me and reassigned to Brian. The Beatles’ first stay in Hamburg, between August and November 1960, is the most romanticized episode in their career. Within a group of people he felt pushed to the periphery, quickly aware that nobody much minded whether he turned up or not.