Strings (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino UnidoCitiRetail
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Paperback. Strings an unreleased, too-controversial 1980s film it gathered dust in a studio vault and became underground legend: There are films that disappear because they flop.Strings disappeared because it frightened the people who made it. When production began in the summer of 86, it was never meant to be a blockbuster. A modest budget. A first-time director. A simple story about a boy, a guitar, and the lies we tell ourselves about talent. It was supposed to slip quietly into arthouse cinemas and maybe, if it was lucky, pick up a cult following on VHS. No one expected it to ignite. Originally written for the stage it had a small run in the avant garde theatre circut. Test audiences walked in anticipating the usual coming-of-age fare: a dreamer finds a gift, butts heads with his father, learns something wholesome, rolls credits. What they got instead was something no studio executive had approved a story suggesting talent could be faked, that success could be hollow, and that love, real and complicated, didn't always look the way Hollywood wanted it to. By the final test screening, the controversy had devoured the film's prospects. Some viewers found the ending unnecessary. Others called it provocative. A few labelled it dangerous. Two women, in the closing moments, choosing each other without shame? In 1986, that was considered a career-ending mistake. The studio panicked.The premiere was cancelled.The reels were shelved.The guitar was silenced. But films like this don't vanish. Not really. They survive in whispered rumours, in grainy bootleg workprints, in the memories of the few who saw early cuts and swore they'd witnessed something important. Strings became a ghost film the film your friend insists you would have loved if it had ever come out. What you're holding now is not a polished relic of 80s cinema. It is a snapshot of what Strings was before fear killed it. You will find rough edges here, scenes that linger too long, beats that feel dangerous. That is the point. This was a film about borrowed brilliance and painful honesty, and it never tried to be tidy. Read this knowing it was never designed to be safe.Read it knowing it rattled the wrong cages.Read it knowing that, even locked away, it mattered. Some films are released.Others wait decades in the dark still buzzing, still alivehoping someone will finally press play. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798255000609
- Título
- Strings (Paperback)
- Autor
- Michael Lambert
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798255000609
Strings disappeared because it frightened the people who made it. When production began in the summer of 86, it was never meant to be a blockbuster. A modest budget. A first-time director. A simple story about a boy, a guitar, and the lies we tell ourselves about talent. It was supposed to slip quietly into arthouse cinemas and maybe, if it was lucky, pick up a cult following on VHS. No one expected it to ignite. Originally written for the stage it had a small run in the avant garde theatre circut. Test audiences walked in anticipating the usual coming-of-age fare: a dreamer finds a gift, butts heads with his father, learns something wholesome, rolls credits. What they got instead was something no studio executive had approved a story suggesting talent could be faked, that success could be hollow, and that love, real and complicated, didn't always look the way Hollywood wanted it to. By the final test screening, the controversy had devoured the film's prospects. Some viewers found the ending unnecessary. Others called it provocative. A few labelled it dangerous. Two women, in the closing moments, choosing each other without shame? In 1986, that was considered a career-ending mistake. The studio panicked.
The premiere was cancelled.
The reels were shelved.
The guitar was silenced. But films like this don't vanish. Not really. They survive in whispered rumours, in grainy bootleg workprints, in the memories of the few who saw early cuts and swore they'd witnessed something important. Strings became a ghost film the film your friend insists you would have loved if it had ever come out. What you're holding now is not a polished relic of 80s cinema. It is a snapshot of what Strings was before fear killed it. You will find rough edges here, scenes that linger too long, beats that feel dangerous. That is the point. This was a film about borrowed brilliance and painful honesty, and it never tried to be tidy. Read this knowing it was never designed to be safe.
Read it knowing it rattled the wrong cages.
Read it knowing that, even locked away, it mattered. Some films are released.
Others wait decades in the dark still buzzing, still alivehoping someone will finally press play.
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