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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....
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Notes on a Life
by Eleanor Coppola Publisher Comments Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years...
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Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone
by Christophe Frayling Publisher Comments In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai epic, Leone wound up...
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Hitchcock's Music
by Jack Sullivan Publisher Comments For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the first to...
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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...
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
by Patrick Mcgilligan Publisher Comments In a career that spanned six decades and more than sixty films, Alfred Hitchcock became the most widely recognized director who ever lived. His films -- including The 39 Steps, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds -- set new standards...
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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 Lynch'...
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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...
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Michelangelo Antonioni: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)
by Bert (edt) Cardullo Synopsis Collected interviews with the acclaimed Italian director of L'avventura, La Notte, Blow Up, Zabriskie Point, and other films....
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Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches
by Lynda Obst Publisher Comments In this lively account of her adventures and misadventures in Hollywood, Lynda Obst takes readers behind the scenes, explaining the rules of the game and the nature of power. Filled with anecdotes about some of the biggest names in the industry...
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Alan J. Pakula: His Films and His Life
by Jared Brown Publisher Comments Alan J. Pakula, the director of such film classics as Klute, All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, and Presumed Innocent (and the producer of To Kill a Mockingbird) is widely recognized as one of the finest filmmakers of the twentieth century. In...
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
by Tim 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...
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Something Like an Autobiography
by Akira Kurosawa Review "For the lover of Kurosawa's movies...this is nothing short of must reading...a fitting companion piece to his many dynamic and absorbing screen entertainments." Washington Post Book...
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Never Apologise: The Collected Writings
by Lindsey Anderson Publisher Comments Though he directed only a handful of films, Lindsay Anderson was — and remains — one of the most radical and influential voices in all of cinema. The director of such landmark films as This Sporting Life, If… and O Lucky Man!, Anderson...
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Magic Lantern (07 Edition)
by Ingmar Bergman Publisher Comments “When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and...
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Wong Kar-wai
by Peter Brunette Synopsis Exploring Wong Kar-Wai's groundbreaking use of sound and visual technique to create a new form of cinema....
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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
Powells.com 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...
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Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
by David Baggett Publisher Comments The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; “innocent” birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching — these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them...
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating exploration of the art of film editing (among other pursuits) in the form of extended conversations between acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Oscar-winning film editor Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now...
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The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics
by David L Goodrich Publisher Comments < div> < div> Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the screenplays for some of America& #8217; s most treasured movies, including < i> It& #8217; s a Wonderful Life< /i> , < i> The Thin Man< /i> , < i...
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