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Wim Wenders
Jason Wood & Ian Haydn Smith
In essays, interviews, and comments from his collaborators, the cinema of Wim Wenders is carefully chronicled in unique volume. Illustrated throughout with film stills, and rare behind-the-scenes photographs. Softcover, 95 pp. $43.95.

The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice
Caroline Bainbridge
Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial figures of contemporary European cinema. Since founding the bach-to-basics Dogme philosophy in 1995, von Trier's name has become a by-word for taboo-breaking cinema. This study forges a new understanding of the founder of Dogme 95 as a great democratiser of cinema in the digital age, presenting von Trier as one of the most daring cinematic exponents of postmodern politics and satire. Softcover, 210 pp. $31.95.

Life Without Death: The Cinema of Frank Cole
Mike Hoolboom & Tom McSorley
Legendary Canadian filmmaker Frank Cole made two feature length films and a pair of award-winning shorts before his mysterious and untimely murder in Mali. This book is a ravishing odyssey of inner and outer visions and a heaven-sent treasure trove of never-before-seen material from the filmmaker himself, including postcards, photographs, and excerpts from a journal made during his legendary crossings of the Sahara. Also included is the award-winning documentary The Man Who Crossed the Sahara. Softcover, 210 pp. $25.00.

Gustav Deutsch
Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg & Michael Loebenstein
According to Viennese filmmaker Gustav Deutsch, "film is more than film." His own career proves that point. In addition to being an internationally acclaimed creator of found footage films, he is also a visual artist, an architect, a researcher, an educator, an archaeologist, and a traveler. This volume traces the way in which the cinema of Gustav Deutsch transcends our common notion of film. Softcover, 252 pp. $34.50.

Mainly On Directing Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals
by Arthur Laurents
Playwright, screenwriter, director, Arthur Laurents has been at the birth and rebirth of the American musical theatre's greatest creations for the past five decades. At the age of ninety one, he has just directed the wildly acclaimed new production of West Side Story on Broadway.
This book revels in the author's love for and understanding of, musical theatre, the people who make it and the audiences who attend.
He writes from experience, in rich detail about his work and the work of other great directors. There isn't a page in this book that doesn't entertain or give the reader a fascinating insight into the art of directing.
This is a book inspired by love, which we can be thankful for. Hardcover $28.95.

Kazan on Directing
Elia Kazan
With his unique blend of poetic staging, dynamic action, and rigourous naturalism, Elia Kazan revoltionized American theatre and film. This remarkable book, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography, reveals Kazan's method: how he uncovered for himself the core of each character; how he analyzed each script in terms of his own experience; how he determined the specifics of his production, from casting and costuming to set design and cinematography. In all, this is an unrivaled look at the creative process of a true master. Hardcover, 341 pp. $37.00.

Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
Emmanuel Levy
Beginning his career as an innovative set and costume designer in New York, Vincente Minnelli would go on to become MGM's highest-paid filmmaker. However, even as the director of such classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, and An American in Paris, his professional accomplishments could not eclipse a fascinating personal life, which included marrying Judy Garland and fathering Liza Minnelli. This is the first full-length biography of one of Hollywood's most legendary and influencial directors, encompassing his life, his career, and his art. Hardcover, 448 pp. $41.95.

Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business
Ethan Mordden
In Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business, Ethan Mordden re-creates the lost world of the Follies, a place of long-vanished beauty masterminded by one of the most inventive, ruthless, street-smart, and exacting men ever to fill a theatre on the Great White Way: Florenz Ziegfeld. Hardcover, $36.50.

Scorsese
Roger Ebert
Scorsese by Ebert offers the first record of America's most respected film critic's engagement with the works of America's greatest living director. The book chronicles every single film in Scorsese's considerable oeuvre, from his debut I Call First to his 2008 release, the Rolling Stones documentary, Shine a Light. Softcover, 297 pp. $29.95.

Talk to Her
Edited by A.W. Eaton
Talk to Her is a collection of clear, concise and highlt readable essays devoted to the exploration of Pedro Almodovar's provocative film of the same name. It is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film as well as ethics and gender. Softcover, 108 pp. $29.95.

The Ingmar Bergman Archives
Paul Duncan
The complete works of Ingmar Bergman: an homage to one of the most esteemed film and theater artists of all time, began in cooperation with Bergman himself and made with full access to his archives. Such is the depth of Bergman’s writings that most of the story is told in his own words. This book also features a new introduction by Bergman’s close friend, actor and collaborator Erland Josephson, as well as a DVD full of rare and previously unseen material, and an original film strip from Fanny and Alexander. Hardcover, 592 pp. $239.95.

True Fiction Pictures & Possible Films: Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley & Knenneth Kaleta
Hal Hartley's comedies of unlikely love, trust, and social questioning have been provocative must-sees for the past two decades with critics and audiences alike. In this book of interviews with Kenneth Kaleta, Hartley reflects on the evolution of his filmmaking, elaborating on the forces he believes helped shape it and the ways in which his aspirations develop as time goes on, revealing a good deal of what it is like to be an independent creative artist in a commercially driven culture. Softcover, 169 pp. $22.95.

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Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview
Jason Wood
Talking Movies is a collection of interviews with some of the most audacious and respected contemporary filmmakers of the present generation. Taken from over ten years of conversations for various films and publications, as well as numerous new unpublished interviews, directors selcted for inclusion in this collection comprise figures whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by moder audiences. Softcover, 239 pp. $29.95.

The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
Michelangelo Antonioni
Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Goddard and Alberto MMoravia, this compelling volume explores Michelangelo Antonioni's unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera. Softcover, 402 pp. $24.95.

Images: My Life in Film
Ingmar Bergman
An acknowledged giant of film, Bergman was one of the great creative artists of the twentieth century. In Images, he focuses on his career as a director, screen writer, and producer that spanned forty years. He comments, brilliantly and always cogently, on his failures as well as his successes; on the themes that bind his work together; on his concerns, anxieties, and moments of happiness; on the relationship between life and art. Softcover, 442 pp. $29.99.

Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History
Geoffrey Cocks
In Depth of Field, leading screenwriters and scholas analyze Stanley Kubrick's films from a variety of perspectives. This is the first truly multidisciplinary study of one of the most innovative and controversial filmmakers of the twentieth century. Softcover, 330 pp. $31.95.

501 Movie Directors
Edited by Stephen Jay Schneider
501 Movie Directors is a comprehensive guide to the masters of the big screen, from Woody Allen to Fred Zinnemann, and from Takashi Miike to Ingmar Bergman. Every auteur and action hit maker, comic genius and horror maestro is here, in one beautifully illustrated and fact-filled volume. Hardcover, 640 pp. $29.99.

Tim Burton
Jim Smith et al
From his surprising career start as an animator at Disney, Tim Burton has been involved in a diverse range of film projects, from the visually striking Batman and Edward Scissorhands to the smaller-scale, more personal Ed Wood. Featuring interviews with key figures, contemporary ccriticism, and a look at Burton's forgotten piece, Luaua, this book offers an excellent reference for Burton's fans and anyone interested in the creation of unorthodox mainstream cinema. Softcover, $11.95.

For Ever Godard
Michael Temple (editor) et al.
With 22 lavishly illustrated chapters, as well as a photo essay and a visual filmography, For Ever Godard aims to do critical justice to the full sweep of Godard's artistic interests and preoccupations. The volume presents material by scholars and practitioners from film and media studies, art history, musicology, philosophy and aesthetics, museum studies, French studies, European history, cultural studies, and feminism and gender studies. Softcover, 460 pp. $48.00.

Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi
Jon Gibson & Chris McDonnell
Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi is the first and only book chronicling the career of this animation pioneer, highlighting his early years as well as each of his groundbreaking films, TV shows, and other projects. It contains brand-new art created especially for this book, as well as hundreds of pieces of pre-production art, animation cels, and never-before-seen rough sketches, line drawings, and doodles, all culled from Bakshi's personal archives containing more than fifty years of his life's work. Hardcover, 264 pp. $50.00.

The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger
Chris Fujiwara
Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer-directors. He sought to address the major social, political, and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Chris Fujiwara's critical biography -- a detailed new look at the director's life and legacy --follows Preminger throughout his varied career, penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work. Hardcover, 480 pp. $38.50.

It's Good To Be The King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks
James Robert Parish
It's Good to Be the King traces the life and career of little Melvin Kaminsky. It examines the roots of Brooks's need to entertain and how he developed his unique blend of slapstick, satire, and just plain silliness into a winning and flexible comedy style that would stand the test of time. Hardcover, 325 pp. $30.99.

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Last modified February 12, 2009
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