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Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book
The Story of the Making of the Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary.
Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the...
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman, and Other Movie Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
"No CGI can match what Vic can accomplish" - **Steven Spielberg **
"Vic is The Man" - Pierce Brosnan
"Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend" - Martin Scorsese
"This is the best and most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years,...
by Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a...
by Richard Schickel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Now with a new afterword: the history and process of moviemaking in general, and of Martin Scorsese's brilliant and varied films in particular, through the words and wit of the master director.
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's...
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented...
Jack Be Nimble
The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater.
Following...
Frank Capra
The Catastrophe of Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography,...
Steven Spielberg
A Biography, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of...
Joss Whedon
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales about love,...
Luck and Circumstance
A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine Fitzgerald: a magical dreamscape memoir of his boyhood, coming-of-age, and making his way...
by Peter Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“Most directors have one film for which they are known or possibly two,” said Francis Ford Coppola. “Akira Kurosawa has eight or nine.” Through masterpieces such as Kagemusha, Seven Samurai, and High and Low, Akira Kurosawa (1910–98) influenced directors from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg...
Fritz Lang
The Nature of the Beast
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers”...
by David Sterritt
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
From Dial M for Murder and Vertigo to North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) made some of the most memorable thrillers in the history of cinema. Acclaimed for both his daring artistic innovations and his irrepressible showmanship, Hitchcock blended suspense,...
Seduction
Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity...