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Whenever You’re Ready
Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Backstage with one of Canada’s greatest stage managers
Whenever You’re Ready is an intimate account of the career of Nora Polley, who — in her 52 years at the Stratford Festival — has learned from, worked with, and cared for some of the greatest directors, actors, stage managers, and...
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television...
Tim Burton
The iconic filmmaker and his work
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years, being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland. He is famed for the visually arresting style of his films that combine with highly original...
Drama High
The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino.
Why...
The Men Who Would Be King
An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“The definitive history of the studio” created by the larger-than-life team of Spielberg, Geffen, and Katzenberg (Los Angeles Times).
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven...
The Marvel Studios Phenomenon
Inside a Transmedia Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans to extend its production of connected texts in cinema, network and online television until at least...
Superman: The Movie
The 40th Anniversary Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
From the film’s record-break budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read together,...
Cowboy Bebop
Deep Space Blues
Language: French
Release Date: August 10, 2018
A la découverte des coulisses de la création de la série culte Cowboy Bebop !
Difficile d’expliquer encore aujourd’hui, vingt ans après sa première diffusion, ce qui a fait de Cowboy Bebop un classique de l’animation japonaise. Car au-delà des superlatifs régulièrement attribués...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
—Titus Andronicus
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“We have seen better days.”
—Timon of Athens
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of the two great tragedies: Titus Adronicus, a graphic story of revenge, and...
Zero Dark Thirty
The Shooting Script
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, dedicated team of CIA operatives to track him down. Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since...
Phakama
Making Participatory Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
An international arts organisation and network engaging with music, dance, theatre and visual art, Phakama creates adventurous, site-responsive performances with large groups of people from diverse backgrounds. With contributions from participants, artists, academics and cultural commentators from...
Cinematography
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The Essential Guide to the Cameraman's Craft
Since its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the guidebook for filmmakers. Based on their combined fifty years in the film and television industry, authors Kris Malkiewicz and M. David Mullen lay clear and concise groundwork for basic...
Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed
Conversations with Paul Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This edition of Herzog on Herzog presents a completely new set of interviews in which Werner Herzog discusses his career from its very beginnings to his most recent productions.
Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent
collaborations...
by Mike Goodridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Ultimately responsible for the creative content on screen, directors are the captains of the ship on every film. All actors and heads of department report to them. Some directors are also writers, employing unique styles of dialogue and characterizations. Others, like Pedro Almodóvar, create inimitable...