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Dave Sim: Conversations Eric Hoffman 9781617037818
SciFier: €108.28In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004... -
Dennis Hopper: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781617036569
RRP: €37.49SciFier: €23.37The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late... -
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, Revised and Updated Anthony Kaufman 9781496820341
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16The long and prolific career of Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963) defies easy categorization. From his breakout beginnings in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape to 2013, when he retired from big-screen... -
Margarethe von Trotta: Interviews Monika Raesch 9781496828132
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942) entered the film industry in the only way she could in the 1960s - as an actress. Throughout her career, von Trotta added thirty-two acting credits to her name;... -
The Search for Sam Goldwyn by Carol Easton
SciFier: €39.26Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he... -
Sitting Pretty by Clifton Webb
RRP: €24.93SciFier: €19.46More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when leading men were supposed to be strong,... -
Chuck Jones by Maureen Furniss
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16Chuck Jones: Conversations brings to life the legendary Warner Bros. artist who helped shape the history of American animation, defining our impressions of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,... -
The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War Carl Sciacchitano 9781982102937
RRP: €35.69SciFier: €26.41A brilliant graphic memoir debut, this is a loving son's exploration of his tumultuous relationship with his father, told through the lens of the Vietnam War and its lasting effects long after... -
Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests Tom Shales 9780316295062
RRP: €23.80SciFier: €19.12When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night... -
Roger Corman: Interviews Constantine Nasr 9781617031663
RRP: €35.64SciFier: €23.16Roger Corman (b. 1926) is known by many names-craftsman, artist, maverick, schlock-meister, mini-mogul, mentor, cheapskate, and King of the B's. Yet his commitment to filmmaking remains inspired. He... -
Alexander Payne: Interviews Julie Levinson 9781496810519
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961) has made six feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies... -
Errol Morris: Interviews Livia Bloom 9781604733723
RRP: €129.71SciFier: €86.81Errol Morris: Interviews is an irreverent and humorous collection of conversations with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Morris (b. 1948) has created some of America's most innovative, lasting... -
Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical Larry Ceplair 9780813169736
RRP: €38.68SciFier: €37.83James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American... -
Lewis Milestone by Harlow Robinson
RRP: €38.08SciFier: €36.89This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent... -
Baz Luhrmann: Interviews Tom Ryan 9781628461497
RRP: €104.72SciFier: €85.98Though he has made only five films in two decades--Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and the Oscar-nominated films Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby--Australian... -
William Wyler: Interviews Gabriel Miller 9781604732986
RRP: €35.64SciFier: €23.16William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's golden age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards,... -
Last Man Standing by James Curtis
RRP: €47.54SciFier: €33.69On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a... -
Howard Chaykin: Conversations Brannon Costello 9781628461770
RRP: €37.49SciFier: €23.16One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics... -
On Sunset Boulevard by Ed Sikov
RRP: €34.45SciFier: €28.39On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classicsas Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year... -
Madeline Kahn by William V. Madison
RRP: €24.93SciFier: €20.29Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most popular comedians of her time - and one of the least... -
Ozu by Donald Richie
RRP: €34.51SciFier: €28.92"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his... -
The Other Great Depression: How I'm overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and dysfunctions and finding a spiritual (sometimes) life Richard Lewis 9781586486044
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €16.95At the age of 44, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER, toxic with alcohol, and hallucinating from excess cocaine use. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been... -
Father of the Comic Strip by David Kunzle
RRP: €24.93SciFier: €20.29Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Toepffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman,... -
Terry Gilliam: Interviews David Sterritt 9781578066247
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16This collection of interviews with the renowned filmmaker, animator, artist, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe covers the phases of his career from his early work as a cartoonist and... -
Forever Young by Hayley Mills
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €5.83* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?Hayley Mills's teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's... -
David Lynch by Dennis Lim
SciFier: €11.09At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch's work is primed to act... -
Dave Sim: Conversations Eric Hoffman 9781628461787
RRP: €37.49SciFier: €29.14In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004... -
Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young Bernard F. Dick 9781496861603
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €19.46Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her... -
David Lean: Interviews Steven Organ 9781604732351
RRP: €37.49SciFier: €24.20Along with Michael Powell and Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean (1908-1991) is one of the most significant British filmmakers to emerge from the first half of the twentieth century. His use of panoramic... -
Betrayal of the Mind by Celine Wagner
HumanoidsRRP: €23.79SciFier: €16.73A rare English-language work tracing the life and fate of noted surrealist Unica Zurn.ZURN, UNICA [zyrn ynika]. f. n. - b. 1916; in Berlin-Grunewald - 1. Born to a middleclass family, a young woman... -
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington George Stevens 9780813195247
SciFier: €61.98George Stevens Jr. grew up on movie sets. His grandmother, aunts, uncles, and other family members were all entertainers, but it was his father, director George Stevens Sr., who cast the longest... -
Robert Riskin by Ian Scott
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €28.50Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With... -
The Immortal Count by Arthur Lennig
RRP: €57.72SciFier: €34.70In the 1931 film Dracula, Bela Lugosi set the standard for horror film villainy. Though many actors have donned the cape since that first production, remnants of Hungarian-born Lugosi's portrayal... -
A Rose for Mrs. Miniver by Michael Troyan
RRP: €38.68SciFier: €33.84In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her... -
Art of the Graphic Memoir, The by Tom Hart
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €18.73#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists detailing the tenets of artistry and... -
Forever Mame by Bernard F. Dick
RRP: €31.54SciFier: €26.85When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is still the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907-1976) will always be remembered for,... -
Myrna Loy by Emily W. Leider
SciFier: €33.55From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This... -
Dior by Liz Flavell
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €8.82The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of... -
Carl Barks by Donald Ault
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.37Disney artist Carl Barks (1901-2000) created one of Walt Disney's most famous characters, Scrooge McDuck. Barks also produced more than 500 comic book stories. His work is ranked among the most... -
Walking Distance Lizzy Stewart 9781910395813
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €8.73Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by...