Looking for Eric because the film festival was "in receipt of financial support from the State of Israel". The book for "Looking For Eric" is published by Route Publishing. It includes the full screenplay, extra scenes, colour photographs from the film and on set, and introductions from Paul Laverty, Ken Loach, Eric Cantona and production notes from the cast and crew. In July 2014, "Looking for Eric" had an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film won the Magritte Award for Best Film in Coproduction. Roger Ebert, who had praised many of Ken Loach's previous works, gave the film two stars out of
Looking for Mr. Goodbar a rare kind of book: both a compelling 'page turner' and a superior roman à clef." "Newsweek" found the book to be a "hard, fast, frightening read." "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" was also a commercial blockbuster: on June 22, 1975, it entered the "New York Times" best seller list, and would remain there for 36 weeks, three of those weeks at #1. It sold over four million copies, becoming the fourth highest-selling novel of the year. Paramount Pictures purchased film rights to the novel for $250,000. The film, written and directed by Richard Brooks, was released in 1977, and starred