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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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Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy (97 Edition) by Burton Publisher Comments From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto Publisher Comments This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life and brilliant career,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince (Fletcher Jones Foundation Book in the Humanities) by Mark A. Vieira Synopsis "I thought I knew the story of Irving Thalberg, Hollywood's fabled boy wonder, but I learned a lot from this well-written, diligently researched book. Mark Vieira immerses us in Thalberg's life and career and sheds new light on the workings of Metro... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Martin Scorsese's America by Ellis Cashmore Publisher Comments For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles by Chris Welles Feder Publisher Comments Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame-and, some would say, infamy-of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, Citizen Kane. Many books have been... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Frank Films by Brigitta Burger-utzer Publisher Comments On the heels of Steidl's DVD releases of Robert Frank's films, and as a part of their impressive ongoing project to make all of Frank's output available, Frank Films redresses the imbalance of critical attention paid to his work in cinema--an oeuvre as... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Trade Paper
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Dread and Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip by Stuart Hample Publisher Comments Woody Allen's classic neurosis, humorous life philosophy, and complex relationships are embodied in the classic comic strip Inside Woody Allen, syndicated daily by King Features from 1976 to 1984, illustrated by Stuart Hample. Dread and... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Tim Burton by Tim Burton Publisher Comments Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades. With a visual style inspired by the aesthetics of animation and silent comedy, Burton's work melds the exotic, the horrific and the comic, manipulating expressionism and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense: A Pop-Up Book by Kees Moerbeek Publisher Comments Known worldwide as the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) had an incredible directing career that spanned five decades and more than fifty films. He earned numerous awards, inspired countless publications and festivals, and spawned a new... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives by Mark Cotta Vaz Publisher Comments Located on the pastoral grounds of George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch, the Lucasfilm archives are where the artifacts used to make movie magic are safely stored. This private facility houses such iconic items as Jedi Master Yoda, the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects by Thomas G Smith Publisher Comments A lavish, profusely illustrated volume that tells the remarkable story of the organization whose name has become synonymous with state-of-the-art special effects: Industrial Light & Magic. From its early days in a large empty warehouse in... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - 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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The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers by Cathleen Falsani Synopsis Join award-winning author and columnist Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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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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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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Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa by Teruyo Nogami Publisher Comments Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. A witness to its filming — and its near destruction in a fire — over the next fifty years she worked on all the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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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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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: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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