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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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