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Harmony Korine: Interviews Eric Kohn 9781628461602
SciFier: £72.25Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique... -
Elia Kazan by William Baer
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a director of American films... -
John Singleton by Craigh Barboza
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46John Singleton (b. 1968) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets... -
Jonathan Demme by Robert E. Kapsis
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused with his love for Caribbean culture, pop music, fashion, and characters who reveal offbeat tastes and... -
Groucho and W. C. Fields by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but. Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting... -
Errol Morris: Interviews Livia Bloom 9781604733730
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46Errol 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... -
Bertrand Tavernier by Lynn A. Higgins
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941-2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over... -
Andrei Tarkovsky by John Gianvito
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar... -
The Coen Brothers by William Rodney Allen
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen... -
Ousmane Sembene by Annett Busch
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Even by the time Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007) was forty, he had lived an exceptional life. He joined the French army during World War II and moved from Senegal to France in 1948... -
Just Making Movies by Ronald L. Davis
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, five big movie studios-Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and RKO-dominated Hollywood's film industry. This ""big studio... -
Charlie Chaplin by Kevin J. Hayes
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.64In late 1914, Charlie Chaplin's name first began appearing on marquees. By the end of the following year, moviegoers couldn't get enough of him and his iconic persona, the Little Tramp. Perpetually... -
Michael Winterbottom by Damon Smith
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has created feature films as disparate and stylistically... -
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews Anthony Kaufman 9781578064298
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star has blazed with sex, lies, and videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with the acclaimed movie Traffic. Steven Soderbergh: Interviews... -
The Art of the Comic Book by Robert C. Harvey
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.26In this definitive study of one of popular culture's favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist and comics critic, traces the evolution of the comic book as a potent form of narrative art. He... -
Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews Peter Tonguette 9781628461848
SciFier: £90.99Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford,... -
Roger Corman: Interviews Constantine Nasr 9781617031656
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £91.49Roger 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... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Sidney Gottlieb
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Even twenty years after his death and nearly fifty or more years after his creative peak, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is still arguably the most instantly recognizable film director in name,... -
Fred Zinnemann by Gabriel Miller
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Fred Zinnemann (1907-1997) was one of Hollywood's most honored directors. In a career that spanned fifty years, he won four Academy Awards and directed such classic movies as From Here to Eternity, A... -
Joan Blondell by Matthew Kennedy
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £16.35Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television,... -
Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad Ronald L. Davis 9781617039072
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and... -
Danny Boyle: Interviews Brent Dunham 9781604738339
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £27.43A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater... -
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up Tricia Welsch 9781617037498
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £24.04Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in... -
Orson Welles by Mark W. Estrin
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46This book brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or... -
Hal Ashby: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781604735642
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £90.99Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films... -
Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities by Eva Rueschmann
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £20.49In recent decades the experiences and political struggles of immigrants, exiles, and sojourners have inspired some of the most provocative feature films and documentaries in world cinema. These have... -
Zhang Yimou by Frances Gateward
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Ranging from 1988 to 1999, this book includes interviews with the acclaimed Chinese director of such films as Red Sorghum (1987), Shanghai Triad (1995), and Not One Less (1999) and the trilogy Ju Dou... -
Sidney Lumet by Joanna E. Rapf
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.64Sidney Lumet (b. 1924) is considered one of the most gifted and socially conscious American filmmakers of his generation. His best-known movies--including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, 12... -
Peter Greenaway by Vernon Gras
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably... -
Jim Jarmusch by Ludvig Hertzberg
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Perhaps the most gifted and invigorating of the American independent film directors of the past two decades, Jim Jarmusch (b. 1953) has presented moviegoers with his uniquely personal vision, from... -
Roman Polanski by Paul Cronin
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Roman Polanski (b. 1933) arrived on the international scene in 1962 with his first feature film, Knife in the Water, and his face would be on the cover of Time magazine by the end of that year. His... -
Ingmar Bergman: Interviews Raphael Shargel 9781578062188
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Although Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) holds an undisputed place in the pantheon of major filmmakers, mention of his name unjustly evokes images of monolithic gloom and despair. All of his pictures,... -
John Ford by Gerald Peary
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46This is the first collection of interviews with John Ford (1895--1973), whom many aficionados of fine films consider not only the major American filmmaker but also one of the most extraordinary... -
Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated Gerald Peary 9781617038754
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £20.76Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed ""film geek,"" with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular,... -
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride
RRP: £52.50SciFier: £33.46John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a... -
Danny Boyle: Interviews Brent Dunham 9781496857972
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater... -
Baz Luhrmann: Interviews Tom Ryan 9781496813022
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £19.46Though 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... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841063
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.46The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841056
RRP: £82.00SciFier: £72.25The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum Daniel Worden 9781496833754
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.95Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S...