How I Made 100 Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
by Roger Corman
Here is the complete inside story on the making of psycho, the forerunner of all psychothrillers. Rebello takes us behind the scenes at the creation of one of cinema's boldest and most influential films. From Hitchcock's private files and from new in-depth interviews with the stars, writers, and technical crew we get a unique and unparalleled view of the master at work. Rebello's carefully researched book tells us everything we could ever want to know about the making of psycho. Starting from th...
This work features a series of interviews by the renowned theatre and film director originally commissioned by the BBC and broadcast as part of their 'Millenium project'. Richard Eyre talks to forty of the 20th century's most important and celebrated practitioners of the performing arts. The interviewees include Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller and Alan Bennett; Cameron Mackintosh, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim.
Wu Tsang
by Elodie Evers, Raquel Gutierrez, Raphael Gygax, and Fred Moten
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski
by Ben Peskoe, Bill Green, Will Russell, and Scott Shuffitt
In 1998, the Coen Brothers followed the global success of their smash hit Fargo with a rambling tale of lies, corruption and bowling in early 90s LA - The Big Lebowski. It flopped at the box office. But in the years that followed, the movie took on a life of its own, spawning a culture of quotable lines, White Russians and even Lebowski Fest, an annual event attracting thousands of Big Lebowski die-hards. In I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski ('That's terrific') the curators of Lebowski Fest offe...
V.F. Perkins on Movies (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media)
Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher education. Best known for his 1972 book Film as Film, Perkins has a worldwide reputation within film studies that has been enhanced in recent years by the interest among emerging scholars in the practices of detailed film criticism. His extensive writing in journals and edited collections, spanning sixty...
As featured in Fangoria, Movieweb, ComingSoon, Queerty, Rue Morgue, Yahoo News, Bloody Disgusting, and more! In 1983, Robert Hiltzik’s Sleepaway Camp was quickly disregarded by film reviewers. Variety called it a “tired version of teen oriented horror film formulas," The Philadelphia Enquirer "had more thrills untangling paper clips," and The Cincinnati Post branded it "more horrible than horrifying." But fans saw something different. Very different. 40 years since its release, the film’s uniq...
The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters...
In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television. In this book, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker, Obomsawin receives her due as the central figure in the development of indigenous media in North America. Incorporating history, politics, and film theory into a compelling narrative, Randolph Lewis explores the life and work of a multifac...
Hollywood Melodrama in the Films of Pedro Almodovar (ESRI Working Papers in Literary & Cultural Studies)
by Nuria Triana-Toribio
Chiefly transcript of correspondences.