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Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First... -
Burt Lancaster by Kate Buford
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £19.49Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the electrifying performer... -
A Talent For Trouble by Jan Herman
SciFier: £22.59The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress,... -
Bullets Over Hollywood by John McCarty
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24From Scarface to White Heat , from The Godfather to The Usual Suspects , from Once Upon a Time in America to Road to Perdition , gangland on the screen remains as popular as ever.In Bullets... -
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.59A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any... -
A Cast Of Friends by Bill Hanna
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends , he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the... -
Buster Keaton by Marion Meade
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.69Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films and nineteen short comedies, which are perhaps... -
Rex Power - Invasion of the Fear Bugs! by RAMZEE
RebellionRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Dino-Cop - from space! Rex is an alien descendant of the mighty Tyrannosaurus and a skilled bounty hunter. After one of his bounties - the mad alien scientist, Zardax - escapes, Rex is forced to... -
Serious Business by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.49As Roger Rosenblatt put it, "What makes Serious Business a special treat is that it is like the best of the cartoons itself,funny, touching, and infused with thoughtful joy." This generously... -
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood by James Harvey
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £19.99In 1934 four movies, It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee ,ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and... -
Love, Sex, Death, And The Meaning Of Life by Foster Hirsch
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur as well as the most prolific director in the country, and creating a singular world with each... -
A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter
SciFier: £20.99A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s... -
Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel David Wellington 9781560258674
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.19Set twelve years after the shambling zombie masses have overrun Manhattan, America, and the world, Monster Planet is the mind-blowing conclusion to what must be the scariest trilogy ever. Oceans of... -
An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science-fiction Films by Carlos Clarens
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.79In this book Carlos Clarens, author of Crime Movies (also available from Da Capo/Perseus), George Cukor, and many articles in film magazines, brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of films and... -
Uncle Mame by Eric Myers
SciFier: £17.49Under his pseudonyms of Patrick Dennis and Virginia Rowans, Edward Everett (Pat) Tanner III was the author of sixteen novels,most of them best sellers,including the now-classic Little Me and ... -
Godard On Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £12.24Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du... -
Caligari's Children by S. Prawer
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24"The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally... -
Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin by David Mayer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin, a vivid account of the mutiny of Russian sailors on a Czarist battleship in 1905, is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest films of all time. Until now,... -
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime Roger Corman 9780306808746
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £9.99In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters,... -
My Life And My Films by Jean Renoir
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.09Here is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir,the boy who became the director many consider the greatest in history. Francois... -
Movie Love In The Fifties by James Harvey
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.89"What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly," says James Harvey. And his critical method-reading a movie moment by moment, scene by... -
Fellini On Fellini by Federico Fellini
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon , and Amarcord. His prodigious... -
The Apocalypse Now Book Peter Cowie 9780306810466
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.19The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said simply, "There wasn't a... -
The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood Dennis McDougal 9780306810503
SciFier: £22.39The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusive, tyrannical... -
Bram Stoker And The Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford
SciFier: £20.59"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels... -
American Silent Film by William Everson
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.24Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" ( New Republic ), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the... -
The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.99Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977),movie-maker, bon vivant, and passionate intellectual,was the key figure of Italian neo-realism, the godfather of the French New Wave, and a television pioneer the maker... -
The A List by Jay Carr
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for... -
Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game--And How It Got That Way Philip Orbanes 9780306815744
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world's most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century... -
This Is Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £19.24Innovative film and theatre director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such... -
The First Time I Got Paid For It by Laura Shapiro
SciFier: £17.79The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than fifty leading film and television writers, with a foreword by screenwriting legend William Goldman. Linked by... -
Film As Film: Understanding And Judging Movies V. Perkins 9780306805417
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He... -
Thinking In Pictures by John Sayles
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.99What choices- creative, practical, and technical- make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process... -
The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On Jami Bernard 9780306814457
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24National Society of Film Critics dares to go where few mainstream critics have gone before-to the heart of what gets the coloured lights going, as they say in A Streetcar Named Desire . Here is... -
Death On The Cheap by Arthur Lyons
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We were just making movies. Cary Grant and all the big... -
Pappy by Dan Ford
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Although he is best remembered for his classic westerns like Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Irish-American director John Ford (1895-1973) made 136... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography Vincent Lobrutto 9780306809064
SciFier: £22.79Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of... -
Jean Renoir by Andre Bazin
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.59This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director Andre Bazin, the... -
Coppola: A Biography Peter Cowie 9780306805981
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards at the same time he was over 20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically... -
An Open Book by John Huston
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.74In An Open Book , this veteran of five marriages, innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs, and intellectual obsessions tells his own story in his own way. It is direct,...