Books of Motion picture producers and directors

  • Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf
    Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf
    By Simon Louvish

    Cecil B DeMille is Hollywood's most enduring legend, remembered, and often reviled, for his grandiose Biblical sagas, such as "Samson and Delilah" and his 1956 version of "The Ten Commandments".

  • Pas à pas dans la brume électrique
    By Bertrand Tavernier

    L'envers du décor du film réalisé par B. Tavernier d'après le polar de James Lee Burke.

  • Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy
    Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy
    By Christophe Wall-Romana

    This book restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

  • Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
    Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
    By Patrick McGilligan

    Fritz Lang, director of films such as Metropolis, M and The Big Heat, established his reputation in Germany during the silent era.

  • Béla Tarr, le temps d'après
    By Jacques Rancière

    From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has followed the collapse of the communist promise.

  • Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films
    Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films
    By Bernard F. Dukore

    57 The centuries she cites are unlikely to be accidental on Peckinpah's part : they are the period when revenge tragedies ... It is for the audience to recognize the futility of vengeance , which breeds further vengeance until each ...

  • All My Flashbacks
    All My Flashbacks
    By Lewis Gilbert

    All My Flashbacks is the inside story of some of our best-loved films, but above all it is a warm, incisive and deeply moving account of an extraordinary life.

  • The Films of Carol Reed
    By Robert F. Moss

    Robert Moss's study is the first book-length treatment of Reed, examining his career in comprehensive, detailed fashion.

  • John Huston: Interviews
    John Huston: Interviews
    By John Huston

    Over thirty years of interviews with the American director of such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen, and The Night of the Iguana Over thirty years of interviews with the American director of such classic ...

  • Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies
    Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies
    By Jami Bernard

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  • Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
    Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
    By Michael Schumacher

    In the hands of biographer Michael Schumacher - who gained unprecedented access to Coppola's friends, critics, peers, casts, and crews - the story of Francis Ford Coppola maks irresistable reading for all who care about contemporary film.

  • Hou Hsiao-hsien
    Hou Hsiao-hsien
    By Richard I. Suchenski

    This new volume includes contributions by Olivier Assayas, Peggy Chiao, Chung Mong-hong, Jean-Michel Frodon, Hasumi Shigehiko, Ichiyama Shozo, Jia Zhang-ke, Kent Jones, Koreeda Hirokazu, Jean Ma, Ni Zhen, Abé Mark Nornes, James Quandt, ...

  • A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord and Two Essays on Guy Debord
    A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord and Two Essays on Guy Debord
    By Olivier Assayas

    Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world.

  • Von Sternberg
    By John Baxter

    Von Sternberg traces the choices that carried the unique director from poverty in Vienna to power in Hollywood, including his eventual ostracism in Japan. Historian John Baxter reveals an artist few people knew.

  • Pasolini
    Pasolini
    By Enzo Siciliano

    He had been murdered by a homosexual prostitute, but it is possible that the murder was in fact politically motivated. This is a study of one of the most remarkable Italian writers and artists since World War II.

  • Crimson Orgy
    Crimson Orgy
    By Austin Williams

    He has just one hellish week to shoot "Crimson Orgy," seventy-six minutes of mayhem destined to become the world's most notorious cult movie... and just maybe the first true "snuff film" ever made.

  • The Guillermo Del Toro Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Guillermo Del Toro
    The Guillermo Del Toro Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Guillermo Del Toro
    By Emily Smith

    This book is your ultimate resource for Guillermo del Toro. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

  • The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
    By Tom Ryan

    The first comprehensive critical overview of the films of the acclaimed director

  • The Making of Rocket Boys Revenge: Or How to Make a Truly Wicked Movie
    The Making of Rocket Boys Revenge: Or How to Make a Truly Wicked Movie
    By Adam Beechen, Artful Doodlers

    Here's Twister's ultimate guide to moviemaking. That's right -- Ocean Shores director extraordinaire is willing to share his secrets with you, and everything you need to know about making an eye-popping crowd pleaser is in this book.

  • No Picnic: An Autobiography
    By Patricia Lovell

    Autobiography of Patricia Lovell, one of Australia's most influential film producers.