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Thinking Like a Director
A Practical Handbook
Michael Bloom
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"
Thinking Like a Director
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Donald Margulies
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Everything Is Cinema
The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Richard Brody
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"Richard Brody’s
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
is a story of transformation, a painstaking account of a lifelong artistic journey . . . [A] meticulously detailed book . . .
Everything Is Cinema
works its way methodically through Godard’s career, beginning with his days as a young cinephile in the early 1950s, writing for Parisian film journals like
La Gazette du Cinéma
and, later, the newly founded
Cahiers du Cinéma
. Brody explains that Godard’s entree into the French film industry, via writing criticism, was 'revolutionary and didactic': Godard and his contemporaries—among them future filmmakers of the
nouvelle vague
including François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Maurice Schérer (better known to filmgoers as Eric Rohmer)—educated themselves by making pilgrimages to screenings at the Cinémathèque and the Cine-Club du Quartier Latin, where they might see three or four films a day."—
Stephanie Zacharek,
The New York Times
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Burton on Burton, 2nd Revised Edition
Tim Burton; Edited by Mark Salisbury; Foreword by Johnny Depp
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"[Burton] is, to me, a true genius and I wouldn't use that word with too many people, believe me. You can't label what he does. It's not magic, because that would imply some sort of trickery. It's not just skill, because that seems like it's learned. What he has is a very special gift that we don't see every day. It's not enough to call him a filmmaker. The rare title of 'genius' is a better fit—in not just film but drawings, photographs, thought, insight, and ideas . . . I have never seen someone so obviously out of place fit right in."—
Johnny Depp, from the Foreword
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Scorsese on Scorsese
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Edited by Ian Christie and David Thompson
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Now fully updated,
Scorsese on Scorsese
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Kundun
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Bringing Out the Dead
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My Voyage to Italy
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The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Sarah Churchwell
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There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe...
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Herzog on Herzog
Edited by Paul Cronin
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Crafty TV Writing
Thinking Inside the Box
Alex Epstein
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A professional TV writer’s real-world guide to getting paid to write great television "No need for me to ever write a book on TV writing. Alex Epstein has...
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Digital Filmmaking
Mike Figgis
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"Now there is no reason to prevent anybody from making a film. The technology exists, the equipment is much cheaper than it was, the post-production facilities are on a laptop computer, the entire equipment to make a film can go in a couple of cases and be carried as hand luggage on a plane."—
Mike Figgis, author of
Digital Filmmaking
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The Portable Film School
Everything You'd Learn in Film School (Without Ever Going to Class)
D. B. Gilles
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The Portable Film School
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David Benullo, former student and co-writer of the screenplay for
Around The World In 80 Days
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Independent Feature Film Production
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Gregory Goodell
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Making Documentary Films and Videos
A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries
Barry Hampe
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"Barry Hampe's
Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos
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Jeannette Paulson, Creative Director, Hawaii International Film Festival
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How to Build a Great Screenplay
A Master Class in Storytelling for Film
David Howard
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"David Howard's
How to Build a Great Screenplay
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Adams Belanoff, writer and producer on
Cosby
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Murphy Brown
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Wings
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Make Your Own Damn Movie!
Secrets of a Renegade Director
Lloyd Kaufman with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga; Foreword by Trey Parker; Introduction by James Gunn
L.A. Weekly Books
Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to...
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Federico Fellini
His Life and Work
Tullio Kezich; Translated from the Italian by Minna Proctor with Viviana Mazza
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"A loving, passionate, wonderfully detailed and exquisitely written look at one of the few truly indispensable film artists who have come our way, from one of the people who knew him and his films best. I can't think of a better companion piece to the incomparable work of Federico Fellini."—
Martin Scorsese
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Complicated Women
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Mick LaSalle
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"LaSalle's marvelous
Complicated Women
is the best kind of film book, making us see with fresh eyes the women of pre-Code Hollywood, a truly revolutionary lot by any standards. LaSalle wittily and insightfully celebrates the multiform 'New Woman' of the late '20s and early '30s."—
Molly Haskell, author of
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
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Hollywood 101
The Film Industry
Frederick Levy
Renaissance Books
Looking for a career in the film business? Look no further. Making it in Hollywood is possible. But only if you have a workable strategy. When author...
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Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy
The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
Simon Louvish
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act, celebrated by legions of...
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Mae West
It Ain't No Sin
Simon Louvish
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“Louvish’s research cements West’s reputation as the definitive siren of suggestion, without whom there would never have been any Sex and the City.”...
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Chaplin
The Tramp's Odyssey
Simon Louvish
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The Tramp's Odyssey
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New Statesman
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Godard
A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
Colin MacCabe
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"A provocative polemic [that] deserves the highest praise . . . [MacCabe] has a natural talent for describing life [and] does a superb job at tracing the evolution of Godard's ideas . . . [This study gives] a vivid feeling for Godard at work . . . [An] excellent book."—
David Thomson,
The Nation
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On Film-making
An Introduction to the Craft of the Director
Alexander Mackendrick; Edited by Paul Cronin; Foreword by Martin Scorsese
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"This quite remarkable book—I know nothing in print that is quite like it—records in painstaking yet fascinating detail the options available to the director as he prepares to shoot and as he does so . . .
On Film-making
is a sampling of the handouts, often illustrated by his own sketches, that [the author] presented to students over the years. Using these papers, as coherently edited by Paul Cronin, the attentive student could, I think, make quite a respectable film—well-structured and technically proficient . . . He gives many instructive examples of how meaning can be fully conveyed through action, not dialogue, shortening running time and enlivening our visual pleasure."—
Richard Schickel,
Los Angeles Times
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Kate
The Woman Who Was Hepburn
William J. Mann
Picador
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year One of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of the Year Katharine Hepburn was her own creation--an...
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The Reel Truth
Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film
Reed Martin
Faber and Faber, Inc.
“The path to the premiere and beyond of any feature film is a minefield. With
The Reel Truth
, Reed Martin has given new filmmakers the battalion of bomb detectors necessary for survival.”
—Ted Hope, producer of
The Ice Storm
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Dark City
The Lost World of Film Noir
Eddie Muller
St. Martin's Griffin
Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination. A place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same...
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Macavity Award - Nominee - Critical/Biographical
Anthony Awards - Nominee - Critical Nonfiction
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