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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog Synopsis One of the most revered filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog wrote this diary during the making of Fitzcarraldo, the lavish 1982 film that tells the story of a would-be rubber baron who pulls a steamship over a hill in order to access a rich rubber... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover 
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Roman Polanski by F X Feeney Synopsis Roman Polanski's ability to wring laughter from the most degrading heartbreaks will carry the same wealth of healthy shocks in a hundred years. He creates a macabre beauty to be wooed by and wondered at. But behind the laughter and the beauty is the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.99 Sale - Flexible
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Polanski: A Biography by Christopher Sandford Publisher Comments This in-depth examination of one of Hollywood's most famous, and infamous, directors and stars is utterly absorbing. Born in Paris to Polish-Jewish parents, Polanski dealt with the terrors of his childhood -- including internment in Auschwitz -- by... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Making Movies (95 Edition) by Sidney Lumet Publisher Comments From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jean Cocteau and the Testament of Orpheus: The Photographs by Lucien Clergue Publisher Comments French director, poet, novelist, dramatist, and illustrator Jean Cocteau is known for being one of the most versatile and diversely talented artists of the twentieth century. Testament of Orpheus is a photographic journal and tribute to Cocteau's final... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez Staff Pick Robert Rodriguez threw down seven thousand dollars on his debut film El Mariachi, but you only need to spend a fraction of that to get all the insights that he learned. Anybody who's seen his later films (Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) will know... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch Publisher Comments In this rare work of public disclosure, filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Over the last four decades, David... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher Comments Robert Altman — visionary director, risk-taking producer; eccentric family man, Hollywood icon — comes brilliantly to life in this rollicking oral biography. Altman burst onto the scene as a major film director in 1970 with M*A*S*H. His... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Hitchcock Revised Edition by Francois Truffaut Synopsis This is a revised edition of the author's Hitchcock (BRD 1968), his dialogue with the author. Indexes. This revised edition was published in France in 1983.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hayao Miyazaki : Master of Japanese Animation : Films, Themes, Artistry (99 Edition) by Helen Mccarthy Publisher Comments Introducing the genius behind Japan's modern animation classics, the creator of Totoro, Kiki, and Princess Mononoke.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch Publisher Comments In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson Publisher Comments It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by Vincent Lobrutto Publisher Comments Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed filmsPath of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of the greatest American filmmakers. Yet, despite being hailed... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith by Kevin Smith Publisher Comments Anything but boring, the creator of Jay and Silent Bob shares his x-rated thoughts in his online diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way! Lewd, crude and hilariously rude, Kevin Smith pulls no punches in this hard-hitting,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Films of Woody Allen 2ND Edition by Sam B Girgus Publisher Comments The first full-length study of Woody Allen the artist as opposed to the celebrity and personality.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen by Stig Bjorkman Publisher Comments Over the course of his long directing career, Woody Allen has portrayed contemporary American life with an unmistakable mixture of irony, neurotic obsession, and humor. Woody Allen on Woody Allen is a unique self-portrait of this uncompromising filmmaker... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity by Irving Singer Publisher Comments Shortlisted for the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book. Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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David Lean by Kevin Brownlow Publisher Comments One of the greatest biographies of all time An epic biography of an epic moviemaker by, an esteemed film historian. Lean's own life as well as details of the making of such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick Mcgilligan Publisher Comments This remarkable new biography--the first in a quarter-century--restores Hitchcock the man in all his three-dimensional glory. Here is the comprehensive film craftsman and the private man: dedicated romantic, constant trickster, impotent voyeur, devoted... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stanley Kubrick, Director by Alexander Walker Publisher Comments Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation. This new edition, revised and expanded to discuss all of Kubrick's films -- including Eyes Wide Shut -- again received the approval of the reclusive... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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