The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

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It’s an informative delight to read and look at and the kind of thing that gives passionate enthusiasm a good name.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Geoff Andrew , Michael Atkinson , Peter Biskind , Edward Buscombe , Michael Chanan , Tom Charity , Ian Christie , Michel Ciment , Kieron Corless , Mark Cousins , Paul Cronin , Chris Darke , Maria Delgado , Richard Dyer , Olaf Möller , Christoph Huber , Lizzie Francke , Philip French , Chris Fujiwara , Graham Fuller , Charlotte Garson , Tom Gunning , Philip Horne , Kevin Jackson , Nick James , Kent Jones , Richard T. In which the French critic says it all and shows us that further Bergman books must lie in new detail or a broader window on the film world.Iampolski, a pre-eminent contemporary Russian theorist, gives a dazzling demonstration of how, when, where and why films quote other films (and other media) and why we should care. This might appeal more to the pop film fan rather than the film scholar or film school graduate, but considering how fun, zany, and expansive it is, this book is entertaining for any modern movie lover who also appreciates great illustration! I would restrict my choice to the various editions (the fifth, I believe, is forthcoming) of David Thomson’s A Biographical Dictionary of Film. Immerse yourself in the behind-the-scenes world of musical theatre, from the dance halls and vaudeville to the silver screen and sensational Broadway shows.

Francophiles, in general, know a lot about Cahiers du cinéma (and the whole artistic-intellectual culture that goes with it) and almost nothing about Positif (ditto). W. Pabst and Louise Brooks, since exceeded only by ‘Lulu and the Meter Man’ in Thomas Elsaesser’s Weimar Cinema and After.A fugitive finds his way to an unnamed island, discovers he has unexpected company, sees two suns rise, and observes how, with the aid of Dr Morel’s magical machine, space and time can be irretrievably altered. Here are some Fresh Takes on The Zone of Interest, the Grand Prix-winning new film from Jonathan Glazer which takes a bold new approach to the story of Auschwitz, told through the eyes of the camp’s commandant and his family. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.

The books that most influence you tend to come early in one’s life – whether one likes it or not, everyone is a product of their generation. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at classics like Citizen Kane and the Godfather and take a front row seat at lavish blockbusters including Titanic. Each volume offers an argument for the work's 'classic' status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author's personal response to the film.This updated version covers the best films and directors of the last 10 years, along with new discoveries in the history of cinema since the last edition from 2011. I read this one until it fell apart, pre-viewing in my imagination films I had not yet seen and might never see. Emerging from Filmkritik magazine in the late 1950s, this lively pair shaped much future German-language film culture to come with their analyses, programming, teaching and restoration work. Fortunately, thanks to the gifted Russian-Australian scholar Julia Vassilieva, this project is on the way. This blockbuster keeps getting rebooted for a reason: It's just cool to watch dinosaurs chase people!

A study that manages to say a lot of fascinating, illuminating things about its subject even though it labours under the handicap that when it was published (1975) Hollywood had made almost no films about the Vietnam War. I could as easily have picked William Rothman’s Documentary Film Classics, Robin Wood’s Hitchcock’s Films Revisited, Stanley Cavell’s Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage or Paul Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. So, in a quite different but unforgettable way, did Kenneth Anger’s scurrilous Hollywood Babylon (J. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around November 25, 2008. In a small New England town, a group of unlikely friends find themselves caught in the clutches of a mysterious shape-shifting killer who takes the form of whatever you fear most.Another Jane Austen movie makes the list because…well, there are just so many good adaptations of her work. Jane Austen's novel, about a spoiled heiress who amuses herself by meddling in the lives of her neighbors, has been adapted to film before.