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In 1978, director Martin Scorsese turned his camera on his friend and roommate, Steven Prince, creating the documentary 'American Boy'. Prince was best known for his role as the gun salesman in 'Taxi Driver', but to many was a true-life raconteur, actor, ex-drug addict, and road manager for Neil Diamond.

To Scorsese, Steven's life was more fascinating than what any screenwriter could dream up, it had to be captured in celluloid, and 'American Boy' did just that and became somewhat of a cult documentary amongst notable directors and movie-types - so much so that Quentin Tarantino based a famous scene from 'Pulp Fiction' on a story Prince had told of during the recording.

Three decades later, filmmaker and producer of 'A Scanner Darkly', Tommy Pallotta draws out Steven Prince to recount his days since 'American Boy' and to compose the next chapter of his story under the guise of a new documentary 'American Prince'.

'American Prince' has been legally made available to download for free via mininova.org

Absolutely ages ago I bought some black and white Ilford film; the speed was 3200 and I couldn't wait to use it. The plan was to shoot Vile Vile Creatures - but we never got around to it. So, I took the camera to Worcester and used the film after Christmas, through to the end of January.

I shot this on a Diana+ where there's only 3 exposure settings - cloudy, partly cloudy and sunny - and so I'd set this to the longest one and started shooting.

The shot above is my friend Emily Walker on the train. I love the way the things passing the window have turned out, but wish the whole shot was a bit lighter. Photoshopping shows way too much grain.

This just looks like the most amazing film ever - why haven't I seen anything about this before now? Why haven't any of my friends told me about this before now?!

The other night I watched a film that I'd downloaded a while ago, The Proposition. The thing that attracted me to this film was that the screenplay was written by Nick Cave, and my interest in the film increased even more when I seen that it had a 7.5 rating on IMDb.

I'd hate to write a full movie review on my blog, or even give away any plot (hence why I'm reluctant to even write / copy a synopsis) but the movie is good and I recommend that you either buy it, or download it.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4113316/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product/dp/B000FIGF1U/