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"This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker--for the first time. Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, and others, has always been depicted by the media as the Howard Hughes of filmmakers, a weird artist obsessed with his work and privacy to the point of madness....
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"Sidney Lumet: A Life is the first-ever biography of this seminal American director whose remarkable life traces a line through American entertainment history. His biography takes us from the world of Yiddish theater to Broadway spectacles, then inside the Federal Theater, the Group Theatre, the Actors Studio, and the early 'golden age' of television--all of which precede Lumet's astonishing five-decades-long adventure in movie making. Acclaimed as...
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"Walt Disney is an American hero. From Mickey Mouse to Disneyland, he changed the face of American culture. His is a success story like no other: a man who developed animated film into an art form and made a massive contribution to the folklore of the world. After years of research, respected Hollywood biographer Bob Thomas produced a definitive biography of the man behind the legend of Disney: the unschooled cartoonist from Kansas City who when bankrupt...
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Wes Anderson and his collaborators share the story behind Isle of Dogs -including the making of the film, their sources of inspiration and more-in a book with previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs, concept artwork and hand-written notes and storyboards.
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So I am the author of this book and as you can see from the cover, my name is Pamela McGee Wilkinson. I'm just an average retired woman in her "important years", who has rediscovered her writing skills and put them to use in this book and the other one strategically placed on this cover for the selfish reason that if you like this book maybe you'll appreciate the other, especially if you have young children or grandchildren. It was written 20 years...
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For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films-among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, and Gosford Park-that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engagement. His ability to explore and engage so many different worlds with a single, coherent vision changed the landscape of cinema forever. This signature "Altmanesque" style is, in the words of Martin Scorsese: "as recognizable...
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Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era's most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began crafting a larger-than-life neurotic persona that has since entertained and enlightened millions. In his films, widely thought to be autobiographical explorations of his own comic fears and fixations, Allen carefully controlled the public's view of him as a lovable scamp. But that all came crashing down the day Mia...
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El estreno de La noche de los muertos vivientes en 1968 convirtió a George A. Romero en uno de los directores más admirados de su generación. Sin embargo, la obra del realizador, considerado el padre del cine de zombis, no se reduce a un largometraje ni se limita a un subgénero. Sus películas son estudios de su tiempo y su filmografía constituye una radiografía política de los últimos decenios, una reflexión sobre las estructuras sociales...
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From Jabberwocky to The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam has run the gamut of film and fantasy. Once again Scott Colbert takes a look at another favorite director and talks about his work as only he can. More fan than critic, Colbert's conversational tone makes these essays a pleasure to read.
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"An invaluable resource on the making of Eraserhead, Godwin's book includes interviews with the cast and crew conducted when memories were still fresh." - David Lynch & Kristine McKenna, Room to Dream As a young artist working with minimal resources, aided by a dedicated cast and crew, David Lynch spent four-and-a-half years making his first feature. The result was a completely unique, darkly comic nightmare called Eraserhead. Carefully nurtured by...
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Get the Summary of Charlamagne Tha God's Black Privilege in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Black Privilege" by Charlamagne Tha God is a candid memoir and self-help guide that explores the author's journey from a small town in South Carolina to becoming a successful media personality. Charlamagne shares his experiences growing up in Moncks Corner, where he was exposed to both the local drug trade and the rich cultural...
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By 1975, Hammer Films was nearly broke and hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Trying to get a profitable film into production, they had been working with EMI, their British distributor, and a German company on the Dennis Wheatley TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER. When it came out in 1976, it was a big hit. But it did not save Hammer in the end. Read the crazy story behind TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER by David Taylor from the very beginning when...
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Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who's violent live performances. His answer? 'Pretend you're in a war.' For a band as prone to furious in-fighting as it was notorious for acts of 'auto-destructive art', this could have served as a motto. Between 1964 and 1969, The Who released some of the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade, including 'I Can't Explain', 'My Generation' and 'I Can See For Miles'. This...
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Un libro fundamental para conocer la vida y obra de Michael Haneke. Una recopilación de entrevistas que se adentran en la vida de uno de los directores más relevantes de nuestro tiempo.
Michael Haneke (Munich, 1942), autor de películas como La cinta blanca o Caché, no es un cineasta habitual. Y este libro tampoco lo es. Fruto de más de cincuenta horas de entrevistas desarrolladas a lo largo de varios años entre París y Viena, cada capítulo,...
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Este libro analiza la respuesta de la prensa estadounidense al cine de Pedro Almodóvar y su impacto a la hora de reflejar y construir su recepción en este país. Por medio del análisis de reseñas, artículos, entrevistas y demás apariciones en el espacio público, se aquilata la dialéctica entre el director español y los medios de comunicación en Estados Unidos, y se rastrea la convergencia de su universo creador con determinadas propuestas...
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Después de cinco largometrajes y diversos trabajos en otros formatos, Paul Thomas Anderson se ha erigido como uno de los autores más influyentes y complejos del cine actual. Responsable también de los guiones de sus películas, P. T. Anderson ha creado ya una obra muy cohesionada pero en la que es apreciable, asimismo, una sugerente evolución. Si antes de cumplir los treinta años, Anderson era ya autor de dos obras capitales -"Boogie Nights"...
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At twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely considered the best film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. Frustrated by Hollywood and falling victim to the postwar blacklist,...
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The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and, finally, Oscar glory. Lights a nine-year-old boy in New Zealand's Pukerua Bay stays up late and is spellbound by a sixty-year-old...
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From the director and writer behind acclaimed cult classics as “The Fields”, “Camp Dread’, ‘Death House” and “The Special”. I was a "Monster Kid" and "The Weird Kid, The Horror Movie Kid." I found out early...horror is always personal. Now I make horror for a living. It shouldn't just be WATCHED. Horror should be ENJOYED. This isn't some stuffy analysis telling you what's good or bad. Instead, it's a tour of the 1930s through the 1980s,...
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