Movie Directors Books


Coline Serreau (French Film Directors) Best Price: $42.98 Coline Serreau became famous in 1985 with her third film, Trois Hommes et un couffin, the most...	Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood Best Price: $6.98 This is a very good book. Hawks apparently left no papers, and some aspects of his life are...	John Ford: Hollywood's Old Master (Oklahoma Western Biographies) Best Price: $11.90 This is a pretty good overview, in some detail, of John Ford's career as one of...	Woody Allen At Work Best Price: $17.82 Anyone who loves the work of Woody Allen will appreciate this book. The photography is...	Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios Best Price: $54.22 Unlike some of the other books about Ophuls, Bacher's book goes into what lay behind some of...



D.W. Griffith: An American Life Best Price: $5.00 D.W. Griffith is by far a fascinating and confusing character in film history. He gets the...	At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament Best Price: $2.49 If you can't get enough of Jarmen's films, you may love this book. It's hodgepodge:...	Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict Best Price: $13.45 Ronald Bergan shows that although Eisenstein was committed to the Bolshevik cause and...	Images: My Life in Film Best Price: $13.01 The highly acclaimed Swedish director comments on his more than fifty films and a life spent...	Quentin Tarantino: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $13.00 This guy is a genius. This is a great book. I hope they release new editions of this book after...



Federico Fellini: His Life and Work Best Price: $19.13 "Trenchant in its critical analysis, absorbing and sympathetic in its account of his...	Kicking the Pricks Best Price: $3.74 The shockingly honest journals of the acclaimed filmmaker and gay rights activist.	Reel Canadians: Interviews with Filmakers of Canadian Descent (Essay Series) Best Price: $10.00 Angela Baldassarre interviews a number of major film people from Canada. The interviews are with...	Michael Powell: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $50.00 British filmmaker Michael Powell (1905-1990) began his career assisting director Rex Ingram in...	Tim Burton: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Starting his career as an animator for Disney, Tim Burton made his feature film directorial...

Jonathan Demme: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $14.70 The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused...	The Kid Stays in the Picture [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Nonfiction) Best Price: $59.99 From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships...	Fatal Spaces Best Price: $41.14 Before Alfred Hitchcock rose to fame, German director Fritz Lang was considered by many to...	Ridley Scott: Close Up: The Making of His Movies (Close-Up Series) Best Price: $5.58 Ridley Scott won the 1977 Cannes Film Festival prize for his debut feature The Duellists,...	Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies ?The trouble today is that we don?t torture women enough.? ?Alfred Hitchcock It is remarkable...

Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage "Sam Peckinpah is, by his own admission and that of almost everyone else in this richly...	Leni Riefenstahl Best Price: $16.50 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. One of the century's most remarkable and...	Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China?s Fifth Generation (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang...	Elia Kazan Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in...	Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast Best Price: $45.00 Did you know, dear reader, that Fritz Lang invented the backward countdown that is now a staple...

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. Jimmy McDonough Best Price: $7.02 Jimmy McDonough's biography of Neil Young, Shakey was hailed as 'one of the most...	Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema Best Price: $12.00 Alistair Fox explores the dynamics of the creative process involved in cinematic representation...	Martin Scorsese: A Biography Best Price: $30.00 Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his...	Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller Best Price: $20.00 I love ordering from Powells Chicago. They never fail me. My book was received on time and in...	Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges Best Price: $4.44 In this first critical biography of Preston Sturges, Diane Jacobs brings to life the great comic...

Conversations with John Schlesinger Best Price: $5.48 ?I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what?s behind it.? ?John Schlesinger ...	King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema Best Price: $4.90 Bollywoodmania is an addiction. For Westners that will discover and appreciate it in the next...	Claude Chabrol (French Film Directors) Best Price: $19.06 This clear and comprehensive study is the first book-length analysis of Claude Chabrol to be...	Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination Best Price: $141.42 I never realized so many things about Walt Disney until reading this book. Like what you may...	The Unruly Life of Woody Allen Best Price: $35.10 Bright as he was, or perhaps because he was so intelligent, Woody (born Allan Konigsberg) was a...

John Sayles, Filmmaker: A Critical Study of the Independent Writer-Director: With a Filmography and a Bibliography Best Price: $47.79 Ryan really did his homework in pulling together the many pieces of Sayle's vision in a...	Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame: An Autobiography Best Price: $40.49 This book has it all, adventure, history, fun and it doesn't read like an autobiography, but...	Arthur Penn: American Director (Screen Classics) Best Price: $23.98 Segaloff has written a sparkling biography of Arthur Penn (1922-2010). Penn revolutionized...	Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent Best Price: $27.21 The long, colorful career of producer Walter Wanger (1894-1968) represents one of...	Carlos Saura: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $50.00 Thrust into the international spotlight in 1966 when The Hunt , his critique of the Franco...

Carlos Saura: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $14.28 Thrust into the international spotlight in 1966 when The Hunt , his critique of the Franco...	John Woo: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Director John Woo (b. 1946) reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for...	John Woo: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) Best Price: $14.55 Forget Christopher Heard's pathetic, hackneyed, dull mockery of a biography, Ten Thousand...	Woody Allen: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $46.71 Woody Allen (b. 1935) is one of America's most idiosyncratic filmmakers, with an...	George A. Romero: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $15.58 George A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film,...

Walt Disney: The Biography. Neal Gabler Best Price: $23.21 His classic films illuminated everyone's childhood. The theme parks are on every tourist...	Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director Best Price: $14.11 Ingmar Bergman has been considered a film maker concerned with fundamental human problems. ...	Orson Welles (Life&Times) Best Price: $1.16 Orson Welles (1915-85), film and stage director, actor, writer and producer, was a uniquely...	Warren Beatty: A Private Man Best Price: $2.32 ?Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing...	Martin Scorsese: A Biography Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his...

Ready When You Are: Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character...	Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille Best Price: $5.05 BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of...	Roman Best Price: $140.55 Roman can really write, and the book is fascinating. It also presents a sympathetic case for...	Steven Spielberg: A Biography Best Price: $10.99 This is a tremendous depiction of the great Spielberg. If you love his movies than you will...	David Lean: A Biography Best Price: $75.25 Kevin Brownlow's "David Lean: A Biography" is a landmark in the field of...

Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema Best Price: $12.93 A must-read for all fans of Guru Durt and the Indian cinema. The best part, besides a journey...	Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (Film and Culture Series) Best Price: $19.22 With the sheer amount of Hitchcock scholarship out there, one would hardly think there was...	Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America Best Price: $19.42 It's easy to forget the importance of alternative media figures like de Antonio, but he was...	Scorsese on Scorsese: Revised Edition Best Price: $52.21 Now that Hollywood has finally given Scorsese his due with what amounted to a career-Oscar, the...	Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges Best Price: $21.65 An outstanding biography. Though concise, this is much better written than longer biographies...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense: A Pop-up Book Best Price: $199.68 This is an oversized book (~12"x12") that sets some of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense...	Even When it Was Bad...It Was Good This is undoubtedly one of the most boring, self-serving bios I've ever had the misfortune...	Fellini Best Price: $15.21	Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir Best Price: $35.00 Just finished the book. The author wrote or published the book late in his life therefore he...	The Best Butler in the Business: Tom Daly of the National Film Board of Canada

Kubrick Best Price: $5.99 Michael, you are such a great guy! Beautiful book. And he says he'd not be a good critic of...	James Whale: A New World Of Gods And Monsters Best Price: $13.75 After seeing the film "Gods and Monsters" I was anxious to read a biography of James...	My Last Sigh Best Price: $11.03 I find Bunuel is a director that one tends to either love or hate, and that this opinion is...	Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger Best Price: $32.88 I recommend this book to anyone interested in underground film, whether you're a maker or...	A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood Best Price: $17.50 Stanley Kramer has been a lonely wolf in Hollywood. When he started at the end of 40's he...

Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $11.70 The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors ...	Black Directors in Hollywood Best Price: $15.89 Hollywood film directors are some of the world's most powerful storytellers, shaping the...	Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist (Texas Film and Media Studies Series) Best Price: $7.99 Bernard Gordon's book is a compelling first hand account of how this Nation treated some of...	All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse Best Price: $4.95 I'll tell you right off the top, I'm not a huge fan of Broadway musicals. Mostly...	Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies Best Price: $4.50 Donald Spoto is probably the best authority on Alfred Hitchcock, and this marks his third book...

Leni Riefenstahl Best Price: $11.87 It took me over a month but I finally finished this astonishing book. I'm exhausted and...	The New Biographical Dictionary of Film Best Price: $4.97 I don't think i've had as much fun, or been as challenged by any book on film as i have...	Martin Scorsese: A Biography Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his...	Ready When You Are: Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character...	Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille Best Price: $5.05 BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of...

Roman Best Price: $140.55 Roman can really write, and the book is fascinating. It also presents a sympathetic case for...	Steven Spielberg: A Biography Best Price: $10.99 This is a tremendous depiction of the great Spielberg. If you love his movies than you will...	David Lean: A Biography Best Price: $75.25 Kevin Brownlow's "David Lean: A Biography" is a landmark in the field of...	Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema Best Price: $12.93 A must-read for all fans of Guru Durt and the Indian cinema. The best part, besides a journey...	Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (Film and Culture Series) Best Price: $19.22 With the sheer amount of Hitchcock scholarship out there, one would hardly think there was...

Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America Best Price: $19.42 It's easy to forget the importance of alternative media figures like de Antonio, but he was...	Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger Best Price: $0.01 Edge Of Midnight: The Life Of John Schlesinger is the authorized biography of the filmmaker...	Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong Best Price: $18.86 Explorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer Merian C. Cooper --the adventurer who created...	Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong (Playaway Adult Nonfiction) Best Price: $69.99 Explorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer Merian C. Cooper?the adventurer who created...	Lars von Trier: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $50.00 With six entries at the Cannes Film Festival thus far, Lars von Trier has been a Cannes award...

Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography of the Godfather of Indie Filmmaking Best Price: $8.59 Usually, these unauthorized bios of entertainment industry figures are either slick, superficial...	Images: My Life in Film Best Price: $14.97 ?An incomparably honest self-revelation of the artist.?? The New York Times Book Review Ingmar...	Think of the Self Speaking: Harry Smith, Selected Interviews Best Price: $201.70 Wild amazing mind of Harry Smith, poet, archivalist, anthropogist, shaman, revealed in sudden...	Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans Best Price: $19.07 The second volume of Callow?s definitive biography of Orson Welles examines the years from ...	What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?: His Life and His Films "There was something about Robert Aldrich's artistic temperament that enabled him to...

Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player Best Price: $29.96 I must start off by saying that I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! I love it for many reasons. It's...

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