Born in 1958 in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. There he studied Graphic Design in college, and graduated to become a professional screenwriter, working across an array of genres from romantic comedy to action drama. His stunning breakthrough into film direction came in 1991 with the acclaimed Days of Being Wild. The glorious succession of films that have followed - Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), and In the Mood for Lov...
THE MAN WHO MADE MAKING MOVIES COOL AGAIN AND THE MOVIES THAT DID IT In 1992 Tarantino burst onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs and created a brand of hip-taking hypnotically shot, ultra violent US indie cinema that re-invigorated mainstream American film and spawned many imitators. Now take a detailed look at those pictures Tarantino has directed, those scripts of his made into films by other directors - including True Romance and the controversial, and heavily re-written Natural Born Killers -...
This book offers a significant and original contribution to studies on D.W. Griffith and film, through a systematic analysis of the director’s chase scenes, which create suspense and resolution in his films. The predominance of the emphasis of building suspense differs in the various stages of his chase scenes. The primary source of material discussed here is Griffith’s films after 1913 when he left the Biograph Company. Griffith’s post-Biograph films are more complete and representative of his...
The Cinema of Terrence Malick (Directors' Cuts)
by Professor Hannah Patterson
Federico Fellini's Diary of Dreams
by Tullio Kezich and Vincenzo Mollica
"Il Libro dei Sogni" - "The Book of Dreams" - is a diary kept by the late film director Federico Fellini from the end of the 1960s until August 1990, in which he illustrated and wrote his dreams and nightmares. In his dream life - faithfully recorded in the drawings and notes - themes and inspirations for his films, people he met and personalities or events of contemporary Italy intersect and re-emerge. This unique and exceptional book, which until now has remained almost totally unpublished in...
Time is Money! The Century, Rainbow, and Stern Brothers Comedies of Julius and Abe Stern
by Thomas Reeder
Michael Mann - Cinema and Television: Interviews, 1980-2012
by Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Steven Sanders and Reviewer R Barton Palmer, Prof.
Television Memories (Entertainment, Tv, and Celebs, #1)
by Mabel Tilson
The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (International Library of the Moving Image)
by Bulent Diken, Graeme Gilloch, and Craig Hammond
Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of 21st century cinema. In an age where Turkey's modernisation has created societal tensi...
Peter Bogdanovich (Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)) (Conversations with Filmmakers)
Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and others. Since becoming an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he has given countless interviews to the press about his own career. This volume collects thirteen of his best, most comprehensive, and most insightful interviews, many long out of print and several never before published in their entirety....
Misfits Standup! How to Break into Standup Comedy in a Big Way
by Trent Fox
Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film's politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible that weaves together Eisenstein's expansive thinking and experimental practice with...