Arcadia Books featured in new Woody Allen film

Woody Allen's new film You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger, which opens in the UK on 18 March, features Arcadia.

Arcadia Books published "Swedish Reflections, From Beowulf to Bergman" (co-edited Jim Potts and Judith Black).

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Woody Allen finds himself in Arcadia

Another small press that's enjoying a Christmas windfall from an unlikely source is Gary Pulsifer's Arcadia Books, known to literary London as the publishers of Shere Hite, Francis King and Lisa Appignanesi. When Woody Allen decided to locate his most recent new film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, starring Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, and Naomi Watts, in London, the location scouts for his script set about finding an appropriate "small publisher". Allen finally settled on Arcadia in Nassau Street, W1. Pulsifer did not expect his office to survive the cutting room, or to be exposed to the real world without fictional disguise, but Arcadia's appeal proved stronger than the editor's scissors.

Robert McCrum, Observer

Woody turns the page to Arcadia

To call Woody Allen's literary rom-com You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger star-studded would be an understatement. In his new film, Allen has cast Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Freida Pinto and Josh Brolin. But, for British bookish types, the publishing house that features in the plot will outshine them all. It is Arcadia Books, the splendid indie run with such debonair dash by Gary Pulsifer and Daniela de Groote. Pulsifer reports that Allen's team found the Arcadia ethos to be "a perfect fit" for the firm in the film, even if their actual office proved "too modest". The crew filmed elsewhere, but let's hope that the credits, and cash, roll for Arcadia.

Boyd Tonkin, Independent