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The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt by Lotte H. Eisner
RRP: $63.00$49.62The golden age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary... -
Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery by Charles Higham 9780299203641
RRP: $41.90$32.87Charles Higham successfully presents the most plausible and convincing solution yet to the mystery of who killed William Desmond Taylor. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual subculture... -
The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs by Lauren Wilford
RRP: $56.68$41.24The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur's newest stop-motion animated film. ?Through the course of several in-depth interviews with film critic Lauren Wilford, writer and director... -
Joseph by Peter Greenaway 9782914563895
RRP: $46.10$34.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563895Author Peter GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir -
Chasing The Light: Writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and The Movie Game by Oliver Stone
RRP: $52.50$39.48In this powerful and evocative memoir, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, Oliver Stone, takes us right to the heart of what it's like to make movies on the edge. In Chasing The Light he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering... -
Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions by Robert Hethmon
RRP: $41.98$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360227Author Lee StrasbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie by Sonia Massai
RRP: $69.28$61.38This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. Stunning production photos capture the power of van... -
Scenarios: Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog
RRP: $41.98$37.78I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like uninvited guests, like burglars in the middle of the night. They are in your kitchen; something is stirring,... -
Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography by Maureen Paton
RRP: $33.58$24.38In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of actors.About the AuthorMaureen Paton is a freelance journalist specialising in... -
You've Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life by Clark Collis
RRP: $29.38$19.45Softcover edition contains all-new hand-drawn cover artwork by HagCult! As featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, MovieMaker, SYFY, Fangoria, Yahoo's "It List", SFX, Mental Floss, Total Film, Mashable, and more!How did a... -
Jean Renoir by Martin O'Shaughnessy 9780719050633
RRP: $31.48$29.42Accessible and original analysis of all Jean Renoir's sound films, including those he made in Hollywood - this is the first major study to appear for a number of years and brings new light on some of the director's most celebrated films.. Illuminating... -
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader 9780520296817
RRP: $52.50$41.77With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style... -
Kevin Smith's Secret Stash: The Definitive Visual History (Classic Movies, Film History, Cinema Books) by Kevin Smith
RRP: $115.50$81.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683830993Author Kevin SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
The Art of Castle in the Sky by Hayao Miyazaki 9781421582726
RRP: $58.78$40.76The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli art books, which includes interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels from classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky was the first... -
Cassavetes on Cassavetes by Ray Carney
RRP: $52.50$37.40John Cassavetes is the godfather of American independent cinema, saluted by virtually every US maverick who's followed in his stead, from Martin Scorsese to Sean Penn. Since his death in 1989, Cassavetes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic... -
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody 9780571360888
RRP: $52.50$35.68Jean-Luc Godard is one the most influential filmmakers of the last fifty years. Scorsese, Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai and Lars von Trier are but a few of the directors who have fallen under the spell of his freewheeling style. In his 1960s heyday Godard -... -
They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age: The 1930s by Didier Ghez 9781452137438
RRP: $84.00$63.04As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of "concept artists" whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators. They Drew as... -
A Life in Movies: An Autobiography by Michael Powell 9780571204311
RRP: $42.00$40.34Michael Powell lived intimately, and abundantly, with the movies - entering the business at the end of the silent era, growing up in the industry, becoming one of Britain's most respected and influential directors. This first volume of his autobiography... -
Sleepaway Camp: Making the Movie and Reigniting the Campfire by Jeff Hayes 9781948221283
RRP: $29.38$21.78As 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... -
My Last Breath by Luis Bunuel
RRP: $33.58$24.38A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Bunuel's method is free from all artifice, and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence. Like Pasolini,... -
Fosse by Sam Wasson
RRP: $35.60$26.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334618Author Sam WassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm... -
Spike Lee: Director's Inspiration by Spike Lee
RRP: $67.18$44.37An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike Lee For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has made movies that demand our attention. His extensive filmography reflects an unflinching... -
How to Direct Shakespeare by Adrian Noble
RRP: $46.18$38.01You may be a student, or just starting out in the theatre profession, or an actor contemplating a switch to directing, or anyone dreaming of a life in the theatre. Know this: by developing and sharpening your skills on a Shakespeare text, you will be... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride
RRP: $73.50$62.22The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest social satirist. Though an influential fixture in... -
Alfred Hitchcock's America by Murray Pomerance 9780745653020
RRP: $126.00$114.24With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis... -
Sofia Coppola: Interviews by Amy N. Monaghan
RRP: $52.40$34.40Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides... -
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow
RRP: $27.28$18.12Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club-just so he could watch endless stand-up for free. At sixteen, he was hosting a... -
On Set With John Carpenter: The Photographs of Kim Gottlieb-Walker by Kim Gottlieb-Walker
RRP: $62.98$49.22John Carpenter's producing partner Debra Hill hired photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker to be the unit photographer on Halloween, and Kim soon became part of Carpenter's filmmaking family, shooting stills on the sets of some of his most iconic films:... -
The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film by Christopher Frayling
RRP: $94.50$71.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957261020Author Christopher FraylingFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art PressWeight(grams) 2029g -
Pedro Almodovar by Marvin D'Lugo
RRP: $39.88$35.68Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodovar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy... -
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg by Nigel Morris 9781904764885
RRP: $46.20$36.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764885Author Nigel MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 710gDimensions(mm) 248mm *... -
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride
RRP: $35.68$24.32'Joseph Mcbride's book has the sweep, passion, complexity and tragic grandeur of a great John Ford film - it should be compulsory reading.' Martin ScorseseJohn Ford's many classic movies - among them Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, The... -
Kieslowski on Kieslowski by Danusia Stok
RRP: $35.68$25.58Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique and his trilogy, Three Colours, earned Kieslowski his reputation as a world-class film-maker. Kieslowski was notoriously reticent, and even dismissive of his work and talent, but these frank and detailed... -
Agnès Varda: Director's Inspiration by Matt Severson 9781636810607
RRP: $73.50$50.59A visual tribute to Agnes Varda's three lives as a photographer, filmmaker and artist, with previously unseen archival materials, texts and personal reflections from Jane Birkin, Martin Scorsese, JR and more French filmmaker Agnes Varda was a... -
All About Sergio Leone: The Definitive Anthology. Movies, Anecdotes, Curiosities, Stories, Scripts and Interviews of the Legendary Film Director. by Oreste De Fornari 9788873017844
RRP: $58.80$39.10This is the first volume of a new series ("All about...Cinema!) dedicated to the most American of Italian directors, a master who will celebrate a double anniversary in 2019: 90 years since his birth (3 January) and 30 years since his death (30 April).A... -
I Am Onir and I Am Gay: A Memoir by Onir 9780670094738
RRP: $37.78$27.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094738Author Irene OnirFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
J. Lee Thompson by Steve Chibnall 9780719060120
RRP: $52.50$39.44First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War. Before being recruited by... -
Scorsese by Ebert by Roger Ebert
RRP: $33.60$25.81Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received - for 1967's "I Call First", later renamed "Who's That Knocking at My Door" - creating a lasting bond that made him one of Scorsese's most appreciative and perceptive... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood by Sean Redmond
RRP: $46.20$37.04The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: $31.48$22.81A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to eavesdrop on the stories behind many of the most important...