Luis Bunuel - The Man and His Work (World of Film series)
Ado Kyrou
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$19.99
Theatre & Dance & Music Biography - Film Directors biography
Fellini on Fellini
Costanzo Costantini - ed
Screenpress
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", "R...
$29.99
Kieslowski on Kieslowski
Krysztof Kieslowski edited Danusia Stok
Faber & Faber
Krzysztof Kieslowski's films were brought to the attention of the international audiences by "Decalogue". Since then his reputation as a world-class film-maker has been firmly established with "The Double Li...
$24.99
Sirk on Sirk
Douglas Sirk edited Jon Halliday
Faber & Faber
Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cine...
$12.99
Malle on Malle
Philip French - ed
Faber & Faber
From the 1950s until his death in 1995, Louis Malle pursued one of the most varied and successful careers in post-war cinema, directing such movies as Le Feu follet and Au revoir les enfants in his native Fr...
$18.99
Kazan on Kazan
Elia Kazan edited Jeff Young
Faber & Faber
Elia Kazan is the director responsible for films such as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and East of Eden - to name but a few. With Marlon Brando and James Dean he inaugurated a new...
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Puberty Blues - a Critique
Nell Schofield
Currency Press
In this lively and honest account of the making of the Australian classic film, writer and broadcaster Nell Schofield recalls how she won the role of Debbie and what it was like on the set She looks at th...
$19.99
The Screenplay Workbook - The Writing before the Writing
Jeremy Robinson & Tom Mungovan
Lone Eagle Publishing
This instructional manual, combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists, is designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay The worksheets will...
$18.99
The Encyclopedia of British Film - Second Edition
Brian McFarlane with Anthony Slide
Methuen
An updated edition of the comprehensive history of the British film industry from its inception to the present day, with minute listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or ...
$45.95
Projections - Film-makers on Film-making
John Boorman & Walter Donohue - eds
Faber & Faber
Containing the series of Masterclass lectures given at the 1995 Edinburgh Film Festival, this book includes Robert Towne talking about "Chinatown", the Coen brothers discussing their films, screenwriter Suso...
$12.99
Lynch on Lynch
Chris Rodley - ed
Faber & Faber
Lynch on Lynch describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish filmgoers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated ...
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David Lean
Kevin Brownlow
Faber & Faber
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 Great ...
$32.95
Directing the Documentary - Second Edition
Michael Rabiger
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Chinese Box & A Film-maker's Diary
Jean-Claude Carriere
Faber & Faber
The film "Chinese Box", starring Jeremy Irons and Gong Li, portrays a cross-cultural love story set against the run-up to the hand-over of Hong Kong, and filmed on the spot as it happened. This volume contai...
$12.99
Frank Capra - The Catastrophe of Success
Joseph McBride
Faber & Faber
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 a Wonderful Life". He achieved fame dur...
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Total Directing - Integrating Camera and Performance in Film and Television
Tom Kingdon
Silman-James Press
This is the first book to fully integrate the technical aspects of screen directing with practical methods for directing actors, deeply and carefully exploring how these two primary aspects of the directo...
$29.99
Billy Wilder in Hollywood
Maurice Zolotow - foreword Jack Lemmon
Limelight Editions
"A fascinating montage of a man whose talents and quirks, virtues and faults, are endlessly engrossing. Electrifying opinions of those with whom he has worked and the original casting choices for his films...
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