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5001 Nights at the Movies
by Pauline Kael

ISBN 0805013679 (0-8050-1367-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

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The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
by Donald Spoto

ISBN 0385418132 (0-385-41813-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Cronenberg on Cronenberg
by Chris Rodley

ISBN 0571169937 (0-571-16993-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Cronenberg on Cronenberg
by David Cronenberg, Chris Rodley

ISBN 0571144365 (0-571-14436-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Dark Side of Genius
by Donald Spoto

ISBN 030680932X (0-306-80932-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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The Filmgoer's Companion
by Leslie L. Halliwell

ISBN 0062734784 (0-06-273478-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Hardcover edition of this detailed movie guide from Leslie Halliwell for the movie buff [via]
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The Films of Akira Kurosawa
by Donald Richie

ISBN 0520051912 (0-520-05191-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching.
Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry, to elevate each of his films to a distinctive level of art. His Rashomon--one of the best-remembered and most talked-of films in any language--was a revelation when it appeared in 1950 and did much to bring Japanese cinema to the world's attention. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro.
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The Films of Akira Kurosawa
by Joan Mellen, Donald Richie

ISBN 0520220374 (0-520-22037-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Here is a chance to read a terrific study of Kurosawa's films by the foremost critic of Japanese cinema and a man who had a personal acquaintance with the filmmaker. Newly revised and updated, this classic study now covers all of Kurosawa's films, surveying an extraordinary 50 year career. If you have any interest in Japanese cinema or in the art of movies in general, you can't go wrong viewing Kurosawa's films. Ritchie's book will guide you through them, teaching you about the man and his genius. [via]
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
by Siegfried Kracauer, Leonardo Quaresima

ISBN 0691115192 (0-691-11519-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, has never gone out of print. Now, over half a century after its first appearance, this beautifully designed and entirely new edition reintroduces Kracauer for the twenty-first century. Film scholar Leonardo Quaresima places Kracauer in context in a critical introduction, and updates the book further with a new bibliography, index, and list of inaccuracies that crept into the first edition. This volume is a must-have for the film historian, film theorist, or cinema enthusiast.In From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer--the German-born writer and film critic who shared many ideas and interests with his friend Walter Benjamin--made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film.
In From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film.
Kracauer was an important film critic in Weimar Germany. A Jew, he escaped the rise of Nazism, fleeing to Paris in 1933. Later, in anguish after Benjamin's suicide, he made his way to New York, where he remained until his death in 1966. He wrote From Caligari to Hitler while working as a "special assistant" to the curator of the Museum of Modern Art's film division. He was also on the editorial board of Bollingen Series. Despite many critiques of its attempt to link movies to historical outcomes, From Caligari to Hitler remains Kracauer's best-known and most influential book, and a seminal work in the study of film. Princeton published a revised edition of his Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality in 1997.
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
by Molly Haskell

ISBN 0226318850 (0-226-31885-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
by Paul Sammon

ISBN 0061053147 (0-06-105314-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.
Future Noir is the story of that triumph.
The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.
A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic. [via]
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The Great Movies
by Roger Ebert

ISBN 0767910389 (0-7679-1038-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 1999
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0062736450 (0-06-273645-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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What would a movie lover's 1999 be like without a new edition of Halliwell's? Here is the most comprehensive movie guide available, containing more than 23,000 reviews. While the commentary on the films covered can be worthwhile, the real benefit of this book is the enormous amount of data and trivia it packs between its covers. For each movie, the editors list the title, country of origin, running time, producers, production company, writer, director, photographer, principal cast members, and in most cases, the editors, composers, and production designers who worked on the film. Little icons under the title reveal the film's availability on videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD; tell whether it is suitable for family viewing; and list the Academy Awards that it won or for which it was nominated.
For extra fun, the editors sometimes include the advertising teaser for a film, a memorable line or two, and excerpts from reviews. In this new edition, you can still read lots of commentary on Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind, as well as Derek Elley on The Full Monty ("It elevates ... [its characters] and their story into crowd-pleasing fare without losing sight of the big social picture."), and, notoriously, Kenneth Turan on Titanic ("As Cameron sails his lonely craft toward greatness, he should realize he needs to bring a passenger with him. Preferably someone who can write."). For complete coverage of the whole history of film, particularly American movies, you can't do better than Halliwell's. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2001
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0060957980 (0-06-095798-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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For more than twenty years, Halliwell's has provided highly intelligent, sharply opinionated, and always entertaining reviews of your favorite films -- from the classics of the silver screen to the latest blockbusters. Each entry in this completely revised and expanded edition contains the most comprehensive film information available, includingPlot synopses, critical evaluations, and ratings ranging from none to four stars Cast members, writers, directors, and producers Quotes from contemporary reviews, alternative titles, and original publicity tags Video cassette, laser disc, and DVD availability Easy-to-interpret icons denoting films suitable for family viewing, Academy Award winners and nominees, soundtrack availability, computer-colorized versions, and video format compatibility Plus, lists of four-star and three-star films by title and year, and a complete history of Academy Award winners in every major category
Upholding the outstanding tradition of Leslie Halliwell, editor John Walker delivers the breadth, detail, succinctness, knowledge, and wit that have always been the hallmarks of Halliwell's. [via]
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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2002
by Leslie Halliwell

ISBN 0060988843 (0-06-098884-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2003
by Leslie Halliwell

ISBN 0060508906 (0-06-050890-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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For over 20 years, film enthusiasts, trivia buffs, and ordinary movie watchers alike have consulted the pages of Halliwell's Film & Video Guide for the most comprehensive information available on their favorite films -- from the classics of the silver screen to the latest blockbusters. Each of the books over 23,000 entries include information on the film's cast members; writers, directors and producers; a plot synopsis and critical evaluations; videocassette, DVD, and laser disc availibility; quotes from contemporary reviews; and more.
Halliwell's also features easy-to-interpret icons denoting film suitable for family viewing, winners of Academy Awards and nominations, sountrack availability, computer-colorized versions, and video format compatibility. Additionally, reader's will find lists of four-star and three-star films arranged by title and by year of release, and a list of all the Oscar winners for best picture and director, best actor and actress, best supporting actor and actress, and best original screen play and adapted screenplay.
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Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 1997
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0062734326 (0-06-273432-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Halliwell's Film Guide 1995
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0062733184 (0-06-273318-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Halliwell's Film Guide 1996
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0062733729 (0-06-273372-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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- Halliwell's Film Guide: 1996, Revised and Updated: ISBN 0062716018 (0-06-271601-8)
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Halliwell's Film Guide 2004
by Leslie Halliwell

ISBN 0060554088 (0-06-055408-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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The film guide Hollywood insiders refer to more than any other -- now newly updated with more than 23,000 film reviews
For twenty-seven years Halliwell's has provided highly intelligent, sharply opinionated,and perennially entertaining reviews of all your favorite movies. From Casablanca to Moulin Rouge, from Lawrence of Arabia to The Matrix, each entry in this thoroughly revised and updated edition is filled with the most comprehensive film information available, including:
- Plot synopses, critical evaluations, and ratings ranging from no stars to four stars
- Comprehensive lists of cast members, writers, directors, producers, and Academy Award winners and nominees
- Quotes from contemporary reviews, original publicity tags, and alternative titles
- DVD, VHS, and soundtrack availability, as well as computer-colorized versions of the old classics
- Easy-to-interpret icons indicating films appropriate for family viewing
Editor John Walker provides concise, insightful, detailed, and witty reviews in the outstanding tradition of Leslie Halliwell.
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Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide 2007
by Leslie Halliwell

ISBN 0007234708 (0-00-723470-8)
Softcover, Harper Uk

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Ranging across a hundred years of cinema, and featuring more than 23,000 films, this guide is the undisputed bible for movie enthusiasts and trivia buffs everywhere. For more than two decades, film enthusiasts, trivia buffs, and ordinary movie watchers alike have consulted the pages of Halliwell's for the most comprehensive information available on their favorite films. Often imitated, but never bettered, this guide is packed with essential information, from the classics of the Silver Screen to the very latest blockbusters. It includes concise plot synopses for every film, casts and credits, critical evaluations and reviews, insider gossip and facts, quotes and dialogue, a quick-reference guide to the best films ever, an index of leading directors, Academy Award winners, and more. There are also easy-to-spot icons for family viewing; video, DVD, and soundtrack availability; and Oscar awards and nominations.
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Halliwell's Film, Video And Dvd Guide 2005
by John Walker

ISBN 0007190816 (0-00-719081-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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For more than two decades, film enthusiasts, trivia buffs, and ordinary movie watchers alike have consulted the pages of Halliwells for the most comprehensive information available on their favorite films. Often imitated, but never bettered, Halliwells Film, Video & DVD Guide is packed with essential information, from the classics of the Silver Screen to the very latest blockbusters. Contents include plot synopses of every film, casts and credits, critical evaluations and reviews, fascinating insider gossip and facts, pithy quotes and dialogue, Academy Award-winners listed by year, and more. There are also easy-to-spot icons for family viewing suitability, video, DVD, and soundtrack availability, and Oscar awards and nominations.
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Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0062732390 (0-06-273239-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion
by Leslie Halliwell, John Walker

ISBN 0006383904 (0-00-638390-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A standard directory of actors, directors, and film technicians, this book has since been superseded by more detailed one-volume guides such as Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia. Still, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion--now in its 12th edition--continues to be updated and contains a number of special features the competition doesn't have. Most notable are its citations of quips by famous actors and directors (Errol Flynn: "My difficulty is trying to reconcile my gross habits with my net income"; Alfred Hitchcock: "The cinema is not a slice of life, it's a piece of cake"); its discussion of characters, events, and motifs as they play out in film history (e.g. Tarzan, The Gunfight at the OK Corral, "custard pies"); and its bestowing of special awards to the men and women who have produced significant work in the movies. The volume's appendices, which include guides to further reading, a brief history of the cinema, critical "best films" lists, complete notations of film festival prizes, and every Academy Award given through 1995 make it a terrific source of information. [via]
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Hitchcock
by Francois Truffaut, Helen G. Scott

ISBN 0671604295 (0-671-60429-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession. Though this book was initially published in 1967 when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. It's difficult to think of a more informative or entertaining introduction to Hitchcock's art, interests, and peculiar sense of humor. The book is a storehouse of insight and witticism, including the master's impressions of a classic like Rear Window ("I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well charged"), his technical insight into Psycho's shower scene ("the knife never touched the body; it was all done in the [editing]"), and his ruminations on flops such as Under Capricorn ("If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell 'Follow that car!'"). This is one of the most delightful film books in print. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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I Lost It at the Movies.
by Pauline Kael

ISBN 0714529753 (0-7145-2975-3)
Softcover, Marion Boyars

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Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon II
by Kenneth Anger

ISBN 0525242716 (0-525-24271-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers. [via]
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Laterna Magica
by Ingmar Bergman

ISBN 8472238954 (84-7223-895-4)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie & Video Guide: 1998
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451192885 (0-451-19288-5)
Softcover, Signet

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Updated annually, the 1998 edition of Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide contains reviews of more than 19,000 movies, from 1914's Cabiria and Tillie's Punctured Romance to 1997's Con Air and Batman and Robin. The book lists each film's director and major cast members, tells whether it is in black and white or color, and provides the movie's running time. It rates each film from **** to BOMB, notes whether or not the movie was made in wide-screen format, and records its availability on videocassette and laser disc. The brief reviews that accompany this documentation are tersely written, filled with enthusiasm and humor. Maltin's indices of famous stars and directors make the volume a mini-encyclopedia. Every movie lover should have a copy of Maltin's text. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451195825 (0-451-19582-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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If you buy only one film book in your life, this should be it. Maltin is the filmgoer's guide--the most compact, intelligent, and informative reference available. Alphabetized by title, each of its more than 19,000 entries lists year of release, running time, director, principal cast, and availability on video. Other guides may offer even more information, but Maltin's is distinguished by the quality of its reviews. Rating films on a scale from "****" to "BOMB," it offers a comprehensive introduction to the international cinema, covers the classics with the respect they deserve, unearths thousands of little-known gems, takes the wind out of the overrated, and laughs at the awful with appropriate good humor. If you want proof of Maltin's versatility, compare the reviews of The Battleship Potemkin, History Is Made at Night, Blue Velvet, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters. Standard, crucial, great fun to read, chock full of trivia, and bursting with passion for the movies. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451185056 (0-451-18505-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Featuring more than nineteen thousand entries, this comprehensive film guide encompasses capsule movie reviews, identification of movies available in video, a listing of top family films, cross-references to performers and directors, ratings, and more. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1997
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451188888 (0-451-18888-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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In a revised edition of his best-selling film guide, the resident critic on TV's Entertainment Tonight reviews more than nineteen thousand films, including three hundred new entries and an expanded list of stars and directors. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide, 1995: The 25th Anniversary Edition
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451181727 (0-451-18172-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum How We Made Movie Magic
by Brian Sibley, J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0618154035 (0-618-15403-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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It's one of the most anticipated movies ever, and now you can see for yourself how the magic of Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece was created on screen in The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie Guide. Brian Sibley's straightforward approach takes the reader from the initial conception of the film, as it was developed and passed around studios (it initially started life as a two-hour condensed version of the three novels), to the months of complicated special effects works necessary to do justice to Tolkien's extraordinary imagination. There are interviews with the key cast and production members and all the proceedings are liberally decorated with full colour photographs from the film itself. Sibley manages to perfectly document the painstaking attention to detail by the filmmakers, much of which will be missed by many movie-goers, but he also captures a sense of camaraderie from all involved in their efforts to make the best movie possible. If it's facts and background trivia you're after then this is the best place to be and is the perfect starting point to those new to Tolkien or eager to find out more about how epic films are put together. Dedicated fans who have been following the filmmaking process via the internet won't find anything here they didn't already know, but this is still a very good companion. --Jonathan Weir [via]
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The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy
by Brian Sibley

ISBN 0618260226 (0-618-26022-6)
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The official inside story on the making of the award-winning movie trilogy

The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy is a lavishly illustrated, behind-the-scenes, definitive account of the creation of an epic film experience. Hailed by critics worldwide, part one of the movie trilogy was a box-office smash, one of the most successful films of the decade. Peter Jackson's "fierce, imaginative movie takes high-flying risks and inspires with its power and scale," wrote Newsweek. "In every way this is moviemaking on a grand scale," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, while Time proclaimed the "grandeur, moral heft and emotional depth" of the film, which received thirteen Academy Award(R) nominations. Including more than 300 photographs from all three films, most unique to this book, and exclusive interviews with all the cast and crew, Brian Sibley's fascinating book takes every fan inside the process of adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork for the screen. For the first time in history, three major movies were made at the same time, a triumphant and monumental undertaking that took the world by storm. Here can be found details about the hundreds of dedicated artists, craftspeople and cast and crew members who labored for years -- adding authenticity at every stage -- to bring one of the greatest stories ever told to an eager film audience. Sibley takes us inside the process of filmmaking to show us how the magic is made -- from the director, writers and actors to wardrobe, makeup, miniatures, music and digital special effects, it's all here.

"It was tiring, physically and mentally, but never dull. Three movies, one big story, and so much variety: one day shooting scenes of intimate heart-wrenching drama, the next, vast battle scenes involving hundreds of extras. Every day brought an opportunity to create something new on this enormous canvas that is The Lord of the Rings." -- Peter Jackson
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The Magic Lantern
by Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate

ISBN 0226043827 (0-226-04382-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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Bearing all the narrative trademarks of a Bergman film, his autobiography unfolds not in strict chronology, but as a series of flashbacks to his childhood of bitter unhappiness: "our family", he writes "were men and women with a catastrophic heritage of excessive demands, bad conscience, and guilt". Bergman also tells of the experiences of fear and occasional idyllic happiness that caused his adult unhappiness and self hatred. [via]
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Making Movies
by Sidney Lumet

ISBN 0679756604 (0-679-75660-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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It's well known that a vast number of people work on any given movie in roles as varied as writing scripts, choosing locations, dressing sets, costuming the players, lighting scenes, manipulating the camera, directing actors, editing film, working on sound, advertising the finished product, and screening it to an audience. Have you ever thought about how these components are collated? Or why the director is most often considered the author of a film? Wonder no more, because Sidney Lumet's Making Movies is a terrific journey through each stage of filmmaking that is overseen by the director. Lumet, the veteran director of Twelve Angry Men, The Pawnbroker, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict, and many other fine movies, knows the ins and outs of American filmmaking as well as anyone. In this excellent, personable account, Lumet tells what he's learned about making movies in the course of the last 40 years. He shows why fine directors need to have strong imaginations, extraordinary adaptability, and skill in many different fields. His enthusiasm for his life's work, particularly his love of actors, is evident on every page of this book. As Herculean as the labors of film directing are, Lumet takes great pleasure in his work, almost guiltily admitting that the film director's job is "the best in the world." [via]
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Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese
by Michael J. Nelson

ISBN 0380814676 (0-380-81467-6)
Softcover, Harper Entertainment

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You might think that after ten seasons on the Peabody Award-winning TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike Nelson has seen enough bad movies for one lifetime. As the guys at Cahiers du Cinema say, au contraire! Hollywood's spigot of stupidity shows no sign of slowing, and cheesy films continue to flood our multiplexes and gunk up our home entertainment centers at an alarming rate. This dire situation calls for a specialist. A professional. An expert in wading through motion pictures so vile that they aren't released; they escape. We need Mike Nelson! Hey, settle down there, pal--you got him!
In more than sixty laugh-out-loud reviews and essays featuring his unique combination of erudite wit and shameless clowning, this screenscarred veteran takes us deep into the recesses of cinematic cheese. He examines legendary showbiz families like Culkin, Baldwin, and Estevez; uncovers an ancient quatrain in which Nostradamus foretells the coming of David Hasselhoff; makes the case for the Food Network and the Three Stooges; and skewers all kinds of movies, including Lost in Space, Twister, Anaconda, The Postman, Spring Break, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Bridges of Madison County, The Blair Witch Project, and many, many more. Here is a film critic for the rest of us: the outrageous, hilarious Mike Nelson.
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
by David J. Skal

ISBN 0571199968 (0-571-19996-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies
by Robert Sklar

ISBN 0679755497 (0-679-75549-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. 80 black-and-white photos. [via]
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Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies
by Robert Sklar

ISBN 0394483278 (0-394-48327-8)
Hardcover, Random House

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Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker
by Anthony Lane

ISBN 0375714340 (0-375-71434-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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In an aside that reads like a declaration of intent, Anthony Lane writes that he never quite thrilled to the battle pitched between mainstream and art cinemawhich is to say that he glories in highbrow and lowbrow alike, and respectfully suggests that the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics . . . books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.

In almost ten years as a critic for The New Yorker, Lane has not only written an indispensable column on the latest movie releases, great and small. He has also turned his gaze upon subjects as various as Evelyn Waugh, Shakespeare, the glory of cookbooks, and the fine art of the obituary. Whether he is examining Alfred Hitchcock or astronauts, to read him is to be carried along on a current of urgent inquiry (What is the point of Demi Moore?), wry reflection, and penetrating wit. An essay on The Sound of Music leads him to consider not only singing nuns but the comedy of our cultural memories (For all our searchings and suppressings, the past comes unbidden or not at all); his now infamous pieces on the best-seller lists both celebrate the exultantly bad prose of Judith Krantz and deride the marshes of the middlebrow, where serious novelists lumber around with too many ideas on their back. His writings on the poetry of Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and especially T. S. Eliot showcase his erudition, dispensed with a piercing insight into human folly. In his survey of events as disparate as Oscar night, a Walker Evans retrospective, and the craziness of a Chanel show in Paris, the acuity of Lanes intellect is matched by a quality of heart that is his alone, and by a willingness to be carried away. His writings remind us of what criticism can achieve at its best.

Arguably the most gifted reviewer at work today, Anthony Lane sets the standardas a reader, as a critic, and as an observer of life. Nobody's Perfect is a must for fans old and new. [via]
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
by Mark C. Carnes, David Rubel, Ted Mico, John Miller-Monzon

ISBN 0805037608 (0-8050-3760-8)
Softcover, Owlet

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In our increasingly visual culture, a growing amount of what we learn about history comes from the movies. This unusual and cornucopian book draws on the knowledge of 60 experts who examine the historical accuracy of a splendid array of classic movies such as Julius Caesar, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Last of the Mohicans, Gallipoli, and Gandhi. They reveal what each movie has done right and wrong in portraying the complex threads of the stories as known to the world's most qualified scholars. Highly Recommended. [via]
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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
by Quentin Tarantino

ISBN 0786881046 (0-7868-8104-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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First Edition. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight wear from time on shelf like you would see on a major chain. Immediate shipping. [via]
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A Short Guide to Writing About Film
by Timothy Corrigan

ISBN 0321096657 (0-321-09665-7)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group

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A Short History of the Movies
by Gerald Mast, Bruce F. Kawin

ISBN 0023770708 (0-02-377070-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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The seventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition that has made it the most widely used textbook ever for college courses in film history. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and sound palaces of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship and recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic. [via]
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A Short History Of The Movies
by Bruce Kawin, Bruce F. Kawin

ISBN 0321262328 (0-321-26232-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group

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The ninth edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition-scrupulously accurate in its details, up-to-date, free of jargon-that has made it the most widely adopted textbook for college courses in film history, and now includes a fresh look at "Persistence of Vision" and a new chapter on digital cinema. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the first movements captured on celluloid, to the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and living rooms of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic. [via]
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Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema
by Kevin Smith, John Pierson, David Cashion

ISBN 0786882220 (0-7868-8222-0)
Softcover, Miramax

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What Is Cinema
by Andre Bazin

ISBN 0520000927 (0-520-00092-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman

ISBN 0375703195 (0-375-70319-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as a valuable writer in Hollywood.
Fans of the two-time Oscar-winning writer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) have anxiously waited for this follow-up since his career serpentined into a variety of big hits and critical bombs in the '80s and '90s. Here Goldman scoops on The Princess Bride (his own favorite), Misery, Maverick, Absolute Power, and others. Goldman's conversational style makes him easy to read for the film novice but meaty enough for the detail-oriented pro. His tendency to ramble into other subjects may be maddening (he suddenly switches from being on set with Eastwood to anecdotes about Newman and Garbo), but we can excuse him because of one fact alone: he is so darn entertaining.
Like most sequels, Which Lie follows the structure of the original. Both Goldman books have three parts: stories about his movies, a deconstruction of Hollywood (here the focus is on great movie scenes), and a workshop for screenwriters. (The paperback version of the first book also comes with his full-length screenplay of Butch; his collected works are also worth checking out). This final segment is another gift--a toolbox--for the aspiring screenwriter. Goldman takes newspaper clippings and other ideas and asks the reader to diagnose their cinematic possibilities. Goldman also gives us a new screenplay he's written (The Big A), which is analyzed--with brutal honesty--by other top writers. With its juicy facts and valuable sidebars on what makes good screenwriting, this is another entertaining must-read from the man who coined what has to be the most-quoted adage about movie-business success: "Nobody knows anything." --Doug Thomas [via]
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With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant
by Richard E. Grant

ISBN 0879519355 (0-87951-935-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A brilliantly idiosyncratic, witty and revealing account of the film business and life among its stars, "With Nails" documents, with frank and funny intelligence, what it's like to be involved in movie-making today. 14 photos . [via]
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A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey
by Kevin Murphy

ISBN 0060937866 (0-06-093786-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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For some of us, moviegoing is an occasional pleasure. Kevin Murphy made it his obsession, and he did it for you.
Mr. Murphy, known to legions of fans as Tom Servo on the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, went to the movies every day for a year. That's every single day, people. For a whole fricken' year. And not only did he endure, he prevailed -- for this is the hilarious, poignant, fascinating journal of his adventures: the first book about the movies from the audience's point of view.
Kevin went to the multiplex, sure. But he didn't stop there. He found the world's smallest commercial movie theater. Another one made completely of ice. Checked out flicks in a tin-roofed hut in the South Pacific. Tooled across the desert from drive-in to drive-in in a groovy convertible. Lived for a week solely on theater food. Took six different women to the same date movie. Dressed up as a nun for the Sing-Along Sound of Music in London. Sneaked into the Cannes and Sundance film festivals. Smuggled an entire Thanksgiving dinner into a movie theater. And saw hundreds of films, from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, from the sublime to the unspeakable. Come along on a joyous global celebration of the cinema with a man on a mission -- to spend A Year at the Movies.
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