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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Dieby Ethan De Seife, Steven Jay Schneider, Edward Buscombe, Linda Badley, Geoff Andrew, Tom Charity, Kathryn Bergeron, Joanna Berry, Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, Travis Crawford, Adrian DanksISBN 0764157019 (0-7641-5701-9)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'Book summary:"You played it for her, Sam. Now, play it for me." Everybody loves a good movie, and Casablanca is just one of the classics described in this, the ultimate book about movies! This volume's expert team of authors spans a full century of production, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. The listings are dramatically augmented with memorable photos, both in color and black and white. The book is a chrono-logical survey covering the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, films noir, sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays. Starting in 1902 with the French production, Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) and the famous 1903 American short, The Great Train Robbery, this immensely enjoyable read moves forward chronologically. Film fans review the 1920s silent classics of D. W. Griffith and the comedies of Chaplin and Keaton, then go on to the era of sound films, beginning in 1927 with Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. Soon to follow were von Sternberg's 1931 classic with Marlene Dietrich, Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), the Bela Lugosi portrayal of Dracula, and the inimitable King Kong. Other highlights from the 1930s include screwball comedies like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby, the elegant song-and-dance fests that paired Astaire and Rogers, the crazy antics of the Marx Brothers, and the classic Warner Brothers gangster films where James Cagney, George Raft, and Edward G. Robinson were brought to justice in the final reel. In the 1940s, The Maltese Falconand Casablanca made Humphrey Bogart a household name--and spanning nearly a half-century, from the 1930s to the '80s, Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics thrilled millions. Also well represented are the post-World War II European New Wave directors, including Pasolini, Fellini, and Antonioni from Italy, Resnais and Truffaut from France, and many others. Here too in words and photos are the classic westerns, from epics starring John Wayne and Gary Cooper to those in which Clint Eastwood shot it out with the bad and the ugly. --And certainly not to be overlooked are the great musicals, from Singin' in the Rain to Chicago.Readers who open this book to any page will find a major film described with a complete list of credits, an essay summarizing its story line and screen-history, and still shots of some of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alpha-betical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for in a hurry. Collectors of DVDs and video tapes will find this volume a must for their bookshelf, but even casual moviegoers will enjoy browsing through this big, entertaining reference book. For students of cinema, for discerning film buffs, for general moviegoers, and for readers who enjoy reminiscing over unforgettable lines of dialogue, here's the best place to start. [via]
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Dieby Lucy Summers, Edward Buscombe, Linda Badley, Geoff Andrew, Kathryn Bergeron, Joanna BerryISBN 0764159070 (0-7641-5907-0)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'Book summary:Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. New in this edition are entries to describe such film hits as Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, Farenheit 9/11, and Million Dollar Baby. But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as The Great Train Robbery, and progressing chronologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, films noir, sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers around the world. Each entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alphabetical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for. Movie fans will find descriptions of great musicals like Singing in the Rain, westerns like High Noon, science-fiction classics like Star Wars, dramas like Chinatown and Schindler's List, and international classics from master directors who include Fellini, Antonioni, Resnais, Truffaut, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, and many others. Here is a volume that belongs in the personal library of film buffs, movie reviewers, collectors of DVDs-and every reader who enjoys reminiscing over great movies of the past and present. Hundreds of movie still shots in color and black and white. "... a great motivating guide to cinema. After reading one of its engaging, often profound entries on a missed film, you want to ... rent it. Best of all, it includes international, silent, animated, and recent films."
--Dallas Morning News [via]More editions of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die:
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwritingby William GoldmanISBN 0446391174 (0-446-39117-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting'Book summary:Now available as an ebook for the first time!
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated. [via]More editions of Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting:
The Art of the Fellowship of the Ringby Gary RussellISBN 0618212906 (0-618-21290-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Blade Runnerby Philip K. DickISBN 8435015955 (84-350-1595-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blade Runner'Book summary:A principios del siglo XXI, la poderosa Tyrell Corporation desarrolló un nuevo tipo de robot llamado Nexus, un ser virtualmente idéntico al hombre y conocido como Replicante. Los Replicantes Nexus-6 eran superiores en fuerza y agilidad, y al menos iguales en inteligencia, a los ingenieros de genética que los crearon. En el espacio exterior, los Replicantes fueron usados como trabajadores esclavos en la arriesgada exploración y colonización de otros planetas. Después de la sangrienta rebelión de un equipo de combate de Nexus-6 en una colonia sideral, los Replicantes fueron declarados proscritos en la Tierra bajo pena de muerte. Brigadas de policías especiales, tenían órdenes de tirar a matar al ver a cualquier Replicante invasor.
This novel hooks the reader to such extent that he comes the point of doubting whether what hes reading is really happening or its only a part of Dicks pseudo-reality. In this way, the androids of Do Android Dream on Electric sheeps? In Blade Runner called replicants. [via]More editions of Blade Runner:
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Moviesby Vito RussoISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies'Book summary:When Vito Russo published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. By examining the images of homosexuality and gender variance in Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present, Russo traced a history not only of how gay men and lesbians had been erased or demonized in movies but in all of American culture as well. Chronicling the depictions of gay people such as the "sissy" roles of Edward Everett Horton and Franklin Pangborn in 1930s comedies or predatory lesbians in 1950s dramas (see Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side), Russo details how homophobic stereotypes have both reflected and perpetrated the oppression of gay people. In the revised edition, published a year before his death in 1990, Russo added information on the new wave of independent and gay-produced films--The Times of Harvey Milk, Desert Hearts, Buddies--that emerged during the 1980s. --Michael Bronski [via]
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- The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies: ISBN 0060908718 (0-06-090871-8)
Softcover, Harper & Row - The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies: ISBN 0060137045 (0-06-013704-5)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies: ISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
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- The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies: ISBN 0060908718 (0-06-090871-8)
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Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Moodby Beverly West, Nancy K. PeskeISBN 0440508509 (0-440-50850-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood'Book summary:What can take the edge off a bad day at the office better than a movie where the boss gets his (9-5)? And, of course, that close-up of Antonio Banderas, wet and naked in a cage, is the best cure for the break-up blahs known to modern science (Never Talk to Strangers). Now, for the first time, Cinematherapy acknowledges what women have known for years, and provides a sage guide to the best movie medicine currently available for whatever ails you, whether it's a sudden hormonal shift, a bad-hair day, or a full-fledged identity crisis. [via]
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The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramasby George LucasISBN 0345341465 (0-345-34146-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas'Book summary:This is the book that begot the movie. Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker holds the key to several questions the movie (which came out after this book's penning in 1976) didn't answer for you. What DID happen in those missing moments with Biggs? Read this book and find out! [via]
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- The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas: ISBN 0345279131 (0-345-27913-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas: ISBN 0345260791 (0-345-26079-1)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas: ISBN 0345274768 (0-345-27476-8)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas: ISBN 0345341465 (0-345-34146-5)
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- The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas: ISBN 0345279131 (0-345-27913-1)
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Crackpotby John WatersISBN 0743246276 (0-7432-4627-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crackpot'Book summary:Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters' brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinationg people, places and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan's colon, Waters explores the depths of our culture. And he dispenses useful advice along the way: how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read: infamous), and of course, how to most effectively shock and make our nation's public laugh at the same time. Loaded with bonus features, this new special edition is guaranteed to leave you totally mental. [via]
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywoodby Peter BiskindISBN 0684857081 (0-684-85708-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood'Book summary:Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls : The Generation That Transformed Hollywoodby Peter BiskindISBN 0684809966 (0-684-80996-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls : The Generation That Transformed Hollywood'Book summary:Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Film Encyclopediaby Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein, Ronald Dean NolenISBN 0060742143 (0-06-074214-3)
Softcover, Harper Resource
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Film Encyclopedia'Book summary:This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema. [via]
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- Film Encyclopedia: ISBN 0062730894 (0-06-273089-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Film Encyclopedia: ISBN 006273492X (0-06-273492-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Film Encyclopedia: ISBN 0399506012 (0-399-50601-2)
Softcover, Perigee - Film Encyclopedia: ISBN 0690012047 (0-690-01204-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Film Encyclopedia: ISBN 0060742143 (0-06-074214-3)
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- Film Encyclopedia: ISBN 0062730894 (0-06-273089-4)
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The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volumeby Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein, Ronald Dean NolenISBN 0062737554 (0-06-273755-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume'Book summary:This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema. [via]
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The Filmgoer's Companionby Leslie HalliwellISBN 0809044846 (0-8090-4484-6)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Filmgoer's Companion'Book summary:Hardcover edition of this detailed movie guide from Leslie Halliwell for the movie buff [via]
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Hollywood Babylonby Kathleen AngerISBN 0879320869 (0-87932-086-9)
Hardcover, Straight Arrow Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hollywood Babylon'Book summary: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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I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movieby Roger EbertISBN 0740706721 (0-7407-0672-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie'Book summary:A collection of more than 200 of Ebert's most biting, hilarious and sometimes savage reviews -- by what one web critic calls "the bad movie's worst enemy." [via]
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B Movie Actorby Bruce CampbellISBN 0312291450 (0-312-29145-0)
Softcover, LA Weekly Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B Movie Actor'Book summary:My Chin Can Kill is a delightfully irreverent, yet oddly touching, epic of ambition and disappointment, fame and anonymity, and lots of fake blood. Told in Bruce's wry, sarcastic voice, it is a "Hollywood from the bleacher seats" look at his experiences in film and TV and at his status as a cult horror and sci-fi movie god. This man with the face of a matinee idol and the heart of a Three Stooge first attracted what has grown into an enormous cult following as the star of Sam Raimi's legendary Evil Dead trilogy of thriller-comedies. With tireless good humor and biting wit, Bruce acted, produced, and directed his way through a baker's dozen of "B" horror films and space operas before finally enjoying mainstream stardom on prime-time TV. Deeply earnest and fiercely funny, this book tells the story of an unlikely star who continues to lead a unique double life as cult movie icon and regular Joe.[via]More editions of If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B Movie Actor:
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Incredibly Strange Filmsby V. ValeISBN 1889307017 (1-889307-01-7)
Softcover, RE/Search
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incredibly Strange Films'Book summary:This classic guide to little-known films neglected by the film-criticism establishment features interviews with Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Larry Cohen, and others who dared to make independent feature films their way, without bowing to a committee or focus group. This is an oblique how-to manual, covering everything from financing, distribution, lighting, camerawork and acting, to publicity, marketing and screenwriting. Would-be filmmakers as well as scholars will find much inspiration and enlightenment in this volume, which has been used in college film classes. In-depth interviews focus on philosophy, while anecdotes entertain as well as illuminate theory. Lists of recommended films, an A-Z directory, and quotations are also included.[via]More editions of Incredibly Strange Films:
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James Cameron's Titanicby Douglas Kirkland, Ed W. MarshISBN 0006490603 (0-00-649060-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Cameron's Titanic'Book summary:James Cameron's Titanic is a book conceived on the epic scale of the movie--not only do the massive page size and sky-high production values of the book do justice to the big ship, they give Kate Winslet's titanic hats an impact comparable to what the big screen gives them. It's also fun to get the effect of exploring a set as vast, complex, and fiscally and physically dangerous as the one Cameron created for Titanic the film. He is Hollywood's answer to Ahab, so he deserves a great big book.
Nor will fans be disappointed to hear Winslet break character--she plays an upper-class lass from the stuffiest circles--and explain how she helped her costar prepare for their first scene together, in which she stripped for her dishy portrait. "I was naked in front of Leo on the first day of shooting," says Winslet in the book. "She had no shame with it," says DiCaprio, who apparently despises shame. "She wanted to break the ice a little beforehand, so she flashed me. I wasn't prepared for that, so she had one up on me. I was pretty comfortable after that."
While the stars were getting acquainted and the wild-eyed director was figuring out historically unprecedented ways of blending live footage with computer imagery ("Cheat the size of the tugboats 10 percent smaller ... It will make the ship look even more majestic as it leaves Southampton!"), the core cast of 150 extras was taking a crash course in manners. Etiquette coach and choreographer Lynne Hockney even taught the Core (as they were called) that there was a proper way to laugh. "It was the Gilded Age, a time of the grand hostess, lavish parties and tireless pleasure-seeking," Hockney says in the book. "And each social class was scrambling to reach the one above it. This made proper behavior terribly important.... You cannot slouch in a corset, for example. You perch." One wishes there was a frame or two from the Hockney film running on a tape loop in the wardrobe building, Titanic Etiquette: A Time-Traveler's Guide. If it were available for sale, people would be buying it.
On the other hand, there's always the movie. Or this book. --Tim Appelo [via]
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James Cameron's Titanicby James Cameron, Douglas Kirkland, Ed W. MarshISBN 0067575161 (0-06-757516-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Cameron's Titanic'Book summary:James Cameron's Titanic is a book conceived on the epic scale of the movie--not only do the massive page size and sky-high production values of the book do justice to the big ship, they give Kate Winslet's titanic hats an impact comparable to what the big screen gives them. It's also fun to get the effect of exploring a set as vast, complex, and fiscally and physically dangerous as the one Cameron created for Titanic the film. He is Hollywood's answer to Ahab, so he deserves a great big book.
Nor will fans be disappointed to hear Winslet break character--she plays an upper-class lass from the stuffiest circles--and explain how she helped her costar prepare for their first scene together, in which she stripped for her dishy portrait. "I was naked in front of Leo on the first day of shooting," says Winslet in the book. "She had no shame with it," says DiCaprio, who apparently despises shame. "She wanted to break the ice a little beforehand, so she flashed me. I wasn't prepared for that, so she had one up on me. I was pretty comfortable after that."
While the stars were getting acquainted and the wild-eyed director was figuring out historically unprecedented ways of blending live footage with computer imagery ("Cheat the size of the tugboats 10 percent smaller ... It will make the ship look even more majestic as it leaves Southampton!"), the core cast of 150 extras was taking a crash course in manners. Etiquette coach and choreographer Lynne Hockney even taught the Core (as they were called) that there was a proper way to laugh. "It was the Gilded Age, a time of the grand hostess, lavish parties and tireless pleasure-seeking," Hockney says in the book. "And each social class was scrambling to reach the one above it. This made proper behavior terribly important.... You cannot slouch in a corset, for example. You perch." One wishes there was a frame or two from the Hockney film running on a tape loop in the wardrobe building, Titanic Etiquette: A Time-Traveler's Guide. If it were available for sale, people would be buying it.
On the other hand, there's always the movie. Or this book. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie & Video Guide: 1998by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451192885 (0-451-19288-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie & Video Guide: 1998'Book summary: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 Guideby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451195825 (0-451-19582-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide'Book summary: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 2003 Movie & Video Guideby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451206495 (0-451-20649-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie & Video Guide'Book summary:The newly updated edition-now with over 3,000 DVD listings-of the most authoritative film guide on the market. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1997by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451188888 (0-451-18888-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1997'Book summary:With 300 new movie entries, 1,000 more on videocassette, and laser disc listings, an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, and an updated list of mail-order sources, the 1997 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. The popular reference contains more than 19,000 capsule film reviews, including 300 new entries. Maltin also lists his top 100 films for family viewing. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1999by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452279925 (0-452-27992-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1999'Book summary:Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, and most authoritative book in its field, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" is the quintessential guidebook to the movies. The author has added some 400 new film entries, bringing the total to more than 19,000, and kept pace with video and laserdisc releases, adding more than 1,000 listings in those categories.
Additional features include:
-- Updated and expanded indexes of leading performers and directors, listing their films reviewed in the book
-- Updated mail-order sources for purchase/rental of videocassettes and laser discs
-- Write-ups on every vintage film series, from Charlie Chart to Tarzan
-- Notes on widescreen films that are best seen in letter-box format
-- Leonard Maltin's selections of the 100 best films for family viewingAfter 28 years in publication, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" continues to be the leading film guide on the market. More than four million copies have been sold. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452281237 (0-452-28123-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000'Book summary:Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2000 is incredibly extensive, offering summaries and ratings of movies from Aaron Loves Angela to Zuma Beach. Each movie gets a wry comment from Maltin (the 1981 teen sex comedy Private Lessons is summed up as "a mild piece of sleaze") and a rating from "****" to "BOMB." The Movie and Video Guide 2000 is also meticulously updated--Maltin and his editors are careful to note the bit part appearances of actors who later became stars, allowing you to keep an eye peeled for Charlize Theron in Children of the Corn and Ben Affleck in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you're looking for that movie that you can't remember the name of but you know Laurence Fishburne was in it, fear not--there's also a star index in the back. The book has several other thoughtful features: a guide to the old wide-screen formats like Panavision and Vistascope; a list of 100 must-see films of the 20th century; and grouped box listings of movies that belong to the same series but don't start with the same word, saving a great deal of flipping around. This book is both a fun browser's read and a valuable helpmate at the video store. --Ali Davis [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451201078 (0-451-20107-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001'Book summary:From Leonard Maltin, one of the leading authorities on American film, comes the latest edition of his enormously popular movie and video guide. Key features of this 2001 edition include:
-- Reviews of more than 20,000 films -- 300 new entries
-- Easy-to-read symbols indicating more than 15,000 films available on video -- including 1,000 new entries
-- Over 8,000 listings of films available on laser disc -- and more than 2,000 available on DVD
-- A revised index of leading actors and actresses
-- An updated list of mail-order sources for renting and buying videocassettes and discs
-- Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time ... and much, much more. [via]More editions of Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001:
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452282837 (0-452-28283-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002'Book summary:Completely updated with new information-including 300 brand-new entries-this "indispensable" (New York Daily News) guide contains Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time, an extensive index of stars, and thousands of videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD listings.
"A book you must buy." (Esquire)
"Head and shoulders about the rest." (The New York Times) [via]More editions of Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002:
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2003by Leonard MaltinISBN 0452283299 (0-452-28329-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2003'Book summary:With over 19,000 reviews, including more than 14,000 video entries and 13,000 DVD and laserdisc listings, this work, by the film critic of television's "Entertainment Tonight", aims to be one of the most complete and up-to-date reference works on the subject. Features include: an up-to-date list of mail-order sources for buying renting videocassettes and discs; an index of leading performers; official motion picture code ratings; exact running times - a guide for taping and for discovering which movies have been edited; and reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities and camp classics. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451209400 (0-451-20940-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004'Book summary:Leonard Maltin is a film critic and resident film buff on USA television's "Entertainment Tonight". This guide presents his insightful criticism and provides an up-to-date listing of movies. It contains more than 18,000 reviews, including over 300 new entries, with over 13,000 video and 8000 DVD and laserdisc listings. It also includes an updated index of leading performers and a list of 50 films you "really ought to see". [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451185056 (0-451-18505-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996'Book summary: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, 1995: The 25th Anniversary Editionby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451181727 (0-451-18172-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005by Leonard Maltin, Mike Clark, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Casey St Charnez, Alvin H. Marill, Bill Warren, Jerry Beck, Rob Edelman, Spencer Green, Michael ScheinfeldISBN 0451212657 (0-451-21265-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005'Book summary:More than 18,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451216091 (0-451-21609-1)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006'Book summary:Entertainment, Pop Culture, Cinema [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451219163 (0-451-21916-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007'Book summary:On the Signet list for more than thirty years, and still the one to beat. Completely updated and expanded to include more than 17,000 entries, this is the one that has become standard. [via]
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The Lord of the Ringsby Gary RussellISBN 0618331301 (0-618-33130-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King.[via]
The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special effect and features 600 images, most appearing nowhere else. This fully authorized book includes pencil sketches by Alan Lee and John Howe, costume designes by Ngila Dickson, magnificent full-color paintings by Jeremy Bennett, and prop designs, concepts, sculptures and digital artwork from Weta Workshop and Weta Digital. From Minas Tirith to Mount Doom, from the Army of the Dead to Shelob the monstrous spider, all the spectacular landscapes, characters and creatures are covered in stunning detail, including concepts that did not make it into the final film.
To accompany this wealth of imagery, detailed and informative commentaries appear by all the featured artists and designers, together with a special afterword by Peter Jackson. Their personal thoughts and explanations offer unique and fascinating insight into how The Return of the King was brought to life. An artistic journey begun in 1997 reaches its glorious conclusion within these pages, giving the reader a unique chance to witness the creative process that led to one of the most spectacular movies of all time.More editions of The Lord of the Rings:
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The Lord of the Ringsby David BrawnISBN 0618391002 (0-618-39100-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:Lavishly illustrated with 1,000 photos, paintings, maps, sculptures and sketches, most appearing here for the first time, Weapons and Warfare is an indispensable chronicle of The Lord of the Rings' many creatures, warriors, armies and battlegrounds. From the graceful and proficient Elves to the horrendous war machines of the Dark Lord, each culture's approach to warfare is explained - how they fought, why they were fighting, what armor they wore and what weapons they used against their enemies. Now you can get as close to a marauding Orc as you could ever wish, without suffering the consequences![via]
Treating the filmmakers' notes, designs and props as a true archive, Weapons and Warfare describes in detail every major conflict depicted in the film trilogy - from The Last Alliance of Elves and Men to the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields - each accompanied by a battle diagram from the films' chief designers.
Armed with a wealth of fascinating facts and unique imagery, and with an exclusive foreword by Christopher Lee and an introduction by the Academy Award winner Richard Taylor, Weapons and Warfare promises to be the most striking companion to The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy published to date.More editions of The Lord of the Rings:
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The Lord of the Ringsby John Howe, David BrawnISBN 0618390995 (0-618-39099-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:As The Lord of the Rings draws to a triumphant and spectacular conclusion with The Return of the King, pitching armies of Men and their allies against the evil forces of darkness, this new book reconstructs the history and events surrounding the epic battles in Peter Jackson's awesome film trilogy.[via]
Treating the filmmakers' notes, designs and props as a true archive, The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare uses these records to present a full historical account of the War of the Ring. It assembles all the background information to outline the story behind each battle and examine the strategy used by the opposing forces. Each of the major conflicts depicted in the films - from The Last Alliance of Elves and Men to the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields - is illustrated with a unique diagram by the films' designers that reveals how each battle was fought.
Lavishly illustrated with 1,000 photos, paintings, maps, sculptures and sketches, most appearing here for the first time, Weapons and Warfare is an indispensable chronicle of The Lord of the Rings' many creatures, warriors, armies and battlegrounds. From the graceful and proficient Elven soldiers to the horrendous war machines of the Dark Lord, each culture's approach to combat is explained - how they fought, why they were fighting, what armor they wore and what weapons they used against their enemies. Now you can get as close to a marauding Orc as you could ever wish, without suffering the consequences!
Armed with a wealth of fascinating facts and unique imagery, and with an exclusive foreword by Christopher Lee and an introduction by the Academy Award winner Richard Taylor, Weapons and Warfare promises to be the most striking companion to The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy ever published.More editions of The Lord of the Rings:
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum How We Made Movie Magicby Brian Sibley, J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618154035 (0-618-15403-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: Gollum How We Made Movie Magic'Book summary: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 Complete Visual Companionby Jude FisherISBN 0618258027 (0-618-25802-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Complete Visual Companion'Book summary:From the New York Times best-selling author of The Two Towers Visual Companion comes a lavishly illustrated keepsake guide to The Return of the King. As Frodo, Sam, and Gollum slowly make their way into the depths of the Dark Lord's realm of Mordor in their desperate quest to destroy the One Ring, the scattered members of the fellowship, now scarred and battered from the Battle of Helm's Deep, must journey to the Gondorian stronghold of Minas Tirith for a last stand against the might of Sauron and his evil minions.[via]More editions of The Lord Of The Rings: The Complete Visual Companion:
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companionby Jude FisherISBN 0618154019 (0-618-15401-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion'Book summary:Jude Fisher's Lord of the Rings Visual Companion is a real treat for Tolkien fans and brings readers up close to some of the amazing detail they will find in the big-screen version of this fantasy classic. Not just a straightforward movie guide, this is more of a Middle-earth encyclopedia with information on the people and places to which moviegoers will be introduced. The text is informative and never presumes any level of knowledge, making this book more than accessible for Tolkien fans or those who have yet to discover his work. The pictures are full color and quite simply superb, showcasing the movie's epic scope and exciting special effects. There is even a foldout map of Middle-earth in the center pages using shots from the movie to illustrate key locations, giving it a more realistic feel. Not an average movie tie-in book, Fisher's wonderful guide has been as lovingly put together as the movie itself and has "quality" stamped all over it. This is definitely one to add to your collection. --Jonathan Weir, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogyby Brian SibleyISBN 0618260226 (0-618-26022-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy'Book summary:The official inside story on the making of the award-winning movie trilogy[via]
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 JacksonMore editions of The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy:
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Macmillan International Film Encyclopediaby Catherine MarshallISBN 033390690X (0-333-90690-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia'Book summary:This is the book Hollywood can't live without! Containing over 7000 entries, "The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia" is well-written, user-friendly, and bursting with essential data, famous stories and fascinating trivia. This new edition contains entirely new material; the editors Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolan have updated every page, giving more thorough coverage to the 'independent film' scene and adding new entries for all of the most current stars and trends, from Paul Thomas Anderson (dir: "Boogie Nights", "Magnolia") to Hilary Swank (Oscar for "Best Actress: Boys Don't Cry") and Hollywood's biggest movie ever, "Titanic". [via]
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The Making of "The African Queen": or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Almost Lost My Lifeby Katharine HepburnISBN 0394562720 (0-394-56272-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of "The African Queen": or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Almost Lost My Life'Book summary:The Making of The African Queen or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind by Katharine Hepburn. Published by Alfred A. Knope New York 1987 Filled with laughter and personal insight into the making of the movie, many photographs. [via]
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The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mindby Katharine HepburnISBN 0452261457 (0-452-26145-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM and the Miracle of Production #1060by Aljean HarmetzISBN 0786883529 (0-7868-8352-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of Mgm--And the Miracle of Production No 1060'Book summary:We return to an era in which studio moguls were as eccentric and powerful as today's software barons, when studio hands were non-unionized yet intensely loyal to their studios, when no movie studio even thought about a future containing broadcast TV, when movie stars were better known than Presidents or Kings, and when Technicolor would give you any color except the one you wanted. Nonetheless, solving the creative problems inherent in bringing L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen was seen as an invigorating set of challenges to be met and conquered. [via]
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Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheeseby Michael J. NelsonISBN 0380814676 (0-380-81467-6)
Softcover, Harper Entertainment
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese'Book summary: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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Moving Picturesby Terry PratchettISBN 006102063X (0-06-102063-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moving Pictures'Book summary:A gloriously funny saga set against the background of a world gone mad.
The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill? Its up to Victor Tugelbend ( Cant sing. Cant dance. Can handle a sword a little ) and Theda Withel ( I come from a little town youve probably never heard of ) to find out. [via] -
Past Imperfect: History According to the Moviesby Mark C. Carnes, David Rubel, Ted Mico, John Miller-MonzonISBN 0805037608 (0-8050-3760-8)
Softcover, Owlet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies'Book summary: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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Re-Search No 10: Incredibly Strange Films A Guide to Deviant Filmsby Jim MortonISBN 0940642093 (0-940642-09-3)
Softcover, V/Search
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Re-Search No 10: Incredibly Strange Films A Guide to Deviant Films'Book summary:Incredibly Strange Films (Re/Search #10) is a functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors - Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen and others - who have been critically consigned to the ghettos of gore and sexploitation films. In-depth interviews focus on philosophy, while anecdotes entertain as well as illuminate theory. The book also includes biographies, genre overviews, filmographies, bibliography, an A-Z of film personalities, articles, quotations, lists of recommended films, and sources. [via]
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Remakeby Connie WillisISBN 0553374370 (0-553-37437-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remake'Book summary:In the Hollywood of the future there's no need for actors since any star can be digitally recreated and inserted into any movie. Yet young Alis wants to dance on the silver screen. Tom tries to dissuade her, but he fears she will pursue her dream--and likely fall victim to Hollywood's seamy underside, which is all to eager to swallow up naive actresses. Then Tom begins to find Alis in the old musicals he remakes, and he has to ask himself just where the line stands between reality and the movies. [via]
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The Sense and Sensibilityby Emma Thompson, Lindsay Doran, Clive CooteISBN 1557042608 (1-55704-260-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sense and Sensibility'Book summary:Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. Fans of the film will treasure this beautiful volume that includes her screenplay, diaries of the writing and the filming, and many gorgeous color pictures from the film. [via]
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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Filmby Jane Austen, Emma Thompson, Lindsay Doran, Clive CooteISBN 1557042926 (1-55704-292-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film'Book summary:Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. Fans of the film will treasure this beautiful volume that includes her screenplay, diaries of the writing and the filming, and many gorgeous color pictures from the film. [via]
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Serenityby Pocket BooksISBN 1416507558 (1-4165-0755-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serenity'Book summary:Five hundred years in the future, Captain Mal Reynolds, a hardened war veteran (on the losing side), ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, "Serenity." He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family -- squabbling, insubordinate, and undyingly loyal.
When Mal takes on two new passengers -- a young doctor named Simon and his unstable, telepathic sister, River -- he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from a coalition that dominates the universe with unlimited wealth and power -- and that will stop at nothing to control River and her abilities. The crew of mercenaries, used to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed, soon find themselves caught between the unstoppable military force of the Universal Alliance and the cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who roam the very edge of space. Caught up in the fight to stay alive, they don't yet realize that their greatest danger may be on board "Serenity" herself.... [via]
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Serenity: The Official Visual Companionby Joss WhedonISBN 1845760824 (1-84576-082-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serenity: The Official Visual Companion'Book summary:Five hundred years in the future, Captain Mal Reynolds and the crew of the transport-for-hire ship Serenity take on two new passengers and soon find themselves in a crossfire between an invincible military force and cannibalistic savages. Writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel", makes his long-awaited feature film directorial debut with "Serenity", based on his cult television series "Firefly". This large format, full color companion to the movie features: a special Introduction by Joss Whedon; an in-depth interview with him about the making of the film; the full shooting script, including scenes cut from the final edit; fascinating production and background memos by Whedon, including "A Brief History of the Universe", circa 2507 A.D.; and scores of stunning movie stills, storyboards and pieces of production art. [via]
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Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Windby Darden Asbury PyronISBN 1588180972 (1-58818-097-2)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind'Book summary:A biography about Margaret Mitchell [via]
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Star Wars : A New Hopeby George LucasISBN 0345400771 (0-345-40077-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars : A New Hope'Book summary:Finally, the novel of the movie STAR WARS
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STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE
Luke Skywalker lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine--and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars, adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.
But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn't know who she was, but he knew he had to save her--and soon, because time was running out.
Armed only with courage and with the lightsaber that had been his father's, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever...and headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star (
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Videohound's Golden Movie Retrieverby Martin Connors, Jim CraddockISBN 1578590248 (1-57859-024-8)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever'Book summary:As short a time ago as 1994, Leonard Maltin's movie guide could boast of "more than 19,000 entries, with 300 new titles!" But with 500-plus movies jostling into theaters every year, the pocket-size, curl-up-with-it film guide has become a relic. Nowadays, film books are faintly scholarly word-hoards with three OED-style columns, a trade-size format, and a heft that calls for your sitting pants. Videohound's 1,700-page edition sasses the new millennium ("Covering 1,000 years of Movie Making Magic!" the cover says), but its girth heralds the day when all such guides will be swallowed up by some vast digital database. Until then, there's this bright book, with its uncalculated number (a hasty guess would be 26,000) of reviews of movies on video, Laserdisc, DVD, and TV, and its massive cross-listings by star, director, writer, and cinematographer (cinematographer!). Retailing itself as an irreverent tour for movie lovers, the book has surprising range, with an equal appetite for difficult, small, and foreign films and Hollywood fare. Some inconsistencies? Yep, and that's what makes guides like this fun. Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is hailed as a "masterpiece" and rewarded an admiring four bones (out of four), while the superbly Heideggerian Wings of Desire, also a "masterpiece," is equivocated to three and a half. The woof-worthy The Wedding Singer gets the same two and a half bones that they give Wes Anderson's estimably giggly debut, Bottle Rocket. Terry Zwigoff's lovely Crumb is M.I.A., and there's a tendency to eschew analysis for plot summary, but Videohound has encyclopedic breadth and does the undeclared job it sets out to accomplish: entertain, inform, and give readers a giant list of movies to watch next year. --Lyall Bush [via]
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Softcover, Gale Group - Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever: ISBN 078760626X (0-7876-0626-X)
Softcover, Mint Pub - Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 1997: ISBN 0787607800 (0-7876-0780-0)
Softcover, Mint Pub - Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever/1995: ISBN 081039135X (0-8103-9135-X)
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A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odysseyby Kevin MurphyISBN 0060937866 (0-06-093786-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey'Book summary: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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Imagenes En Accion/ Moving Picturesby Terry PratchettISBN 849759763X (84-9759-763-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagenes En Accion/ Moving Pictures'Book summary:O mejor dicho, de la pantalla plateada. Y siguiendo el canto de sirena de Hollywood estará Victor Tugelbend, un proyecto de mago reconvertido a figurante. No canta, no baila, pero sabe manejar la espada (un poco) y ahora quiere ser famoso. También acudirá Theda Wuthel, una mujer ambiciosa proveniente de una pequeña ciudad de la que probablemente nadie haya oído hablar nunca. Pero la magia de Hollywood se extiende sin límites hasta los más remotos confines del universo, y sus realidades de «podría-haber-sido», «podría-ser» y «nunca-fueron» comienzan a provocar serios desarreglos. Corresponderá a Victor y Gaspode, el Perro Maravilla (¡una verdadera estrella!), la tarea de reinar en el caos y devolver el orden al convulso Mundodisco. Y, la verdad, ¡no parecen preparados para esa tarea! [via]
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Lo Que El Viento Se Llevoby Margaret MithcellISBN 8466306641 (84-663-0664-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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El Senor De Los Anillos: El Retorno Del Rey Guia De Fotosby New Line CinemaISBN 8445074814 (84-450-7481-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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