J. Arthur Rank - The Rise and Fall of His Film Empire (hardback)
by Gareth Owen
The author of this biography of Bunuel spent time in Paris and Mexico to interview people who worked with the director and family and friends, including Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau and Bunuel's sons. Luis Bunuel was a surrealist who worked with great figures of the movement but was influenced little by them, a man of ascetic habits who was also a 50-year alcoholic, an eroticist but one with little physical interest in women, and an anarchist who carried a bow-tie in his pocket so as to be p...
A controversial biography of the most successful film-maker in history whose power now exceeds that of the greatest movie mogul of Hollywood's golden era. Spielberg's films - most notably Jaws , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , ET , the three Indiana Jones chronicles and Jurassic Park - have grossed billions around the world, and with Schindler's List he received critical acclaim as well as popular admiration. The book traces Spielberg's unhappy adolescence to his present position o...
This work emerged from a series of conversations over the course of 14 years, between the master director Federico Fellini and the author, Charlotte Chandler. Like his films, Fellini's memoir is full of his love of life and the movies; the joy of directing and the dreams, memories, fantasies and nightmares behind his art. There is commentary on such actors as Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren and directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Ingmar Bergman. The work explains why the term "Fellini...
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos
by Gregory J. Markopoulos
Since his successful spell running the National Theatre, Richard Eyre's career as a director of film, theatre and opera has made him a leading cultural figure and a hugely respected commentator on the arts. This book collects over fifty short pieces written by Eyre about people he has known and worked with, ideas he has struggled with, things that have moved, delighted or infuriated him. He writes with candour, perceptiveness and charm, and always with an eye for the telling anecdote or the rev...
Director In Progress Please Wait
by Pb Directors Journals Publishing
Oliver Stone's U.S.A.
Oliver Stone has left an indelible mark on public opinion and political life and has generated enormous controversy and debate among those who take issue with his dramatic use of history. This text brings Stone face-to-face with some of his critics and supporters and allows Stone himself ample room to respond to their views. Featuring such luminaries as David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Walter LaFeber and Robert Rosenstone, this book provides a critique of Stone's most c...
Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a dozen books, many of which are autobiographical. Much of Jarman's exploration of post-war queer identity and imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his books, such as the lyrical AIDS diaries Modern Nature and Smiling in Slow Motion. This b...
The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those whose radical politics drove them to fight in the 1916 Rising. Drawing on a huge range of previously unpublished material, The Abbey Rebels of Easter 1916 explores the experiences, hopes and dreams of these remarkable but largely forgotten individuals: Maire Nic Shiubhla...
Legendary Assistant Directors are born in July
by Lovely Hearts Publishing
Elena: Istoriya Sozdaniya Filma Andreya Zvyagintseva
by Andrey Zvyagitsev, Oleg Negin, and Mikhail Krichman
A Companion to Fritz Lang (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors)
This collection of critical essays offers an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema's greatest auteurs. The first edited collection of essays on Fritz Lang's body of work in over thirty yearsA comprehensive assessment of one of cinema's most influential figuresBrings together key scholars, including Tom Gunning and Chris Fujiwara, to share their latest insightsFeatures translated contributions from writers rarely rendered in Eng...
Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era, and in this lavishly-praised biography, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Lindbergh and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius offers a life story as rich with drama as anything found on the silver screen...
After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had left in 1939 to make his reputation in Hollywood. The film he came to shoot there would mark a return to the style for which he had become known and would restore him to international acclaim. Like The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest...