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David Lean
The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled…
De Toth on de Toth - Putting the Drama in front of the Camera
The Hollywood director Andre de Toth provides an account of his film work. The cast of characters includes his wife, Veronica Lake, as well as stars such as Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven,…
Don’t Tell Me - Show Me - Directors Talk About Acting
A collection of informal interviews with Australian directors of stage, film, and TV, talking about actors and acting This is not a "how to act" book, nor is it a series of profiles of the directors, but…
Emeric Pressburger - The Life and Death of a Screenwriter
A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger’s reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in collaboration…
Emotion Pictures
In these essays on the cinema, the author documents the obsessions leading to “Paris, Texas” and beyond. He discusses rock and roll in the movies, avant-garde film, questions of German identity…
Fassbinder - The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius
It was Rainer Werner Fassbinder who helped put New German Cinema on the international map in the 1970s. He was an artist who achieved that rare synthesis of radical subjectivity and wide audience appeal;…
Fellini on Fellini
As a four-times winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Federico Fellini bestrides the history of Italian cinema. Over the course of his career he created a body of work - "La Strada", "La Dolce Vita",…
Frank Capra - The Catastrophe of Success
Based on extensive interviews with Frank Capra himself, this is a biography of the director of films such as “It Happened One Night”, “Mr Deeds Goes to Town” and “It’s…
