Movie Directors Books


Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America Best Price: $13.95 It's easy to forget the importance of alternative media figures like de Antonio, but he was...	Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love, and Disability Oliver Sack, MD called this book, "a remarkable account of what it means to be paralyzed,...	Steven Spielberg: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $28.00 Steven Spielberg is hailed as one of the most influential and commercially successful film...	Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger Best Price: $24.44 I had never heard of Oskar Fischinger until I came across his "Kreise", and was...	Leni Riefenstahl: Five Lives (Photobook) Best Price: $109.86 How different would Leni Riefenstahl's life have been had she not filmed Triumph of the Will?...



The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux: Pioneer Black Author and Filmmaker Best Price: $24.90 Even with my interest and vast reading of pioneers in the arts, I was surprised by what I found...	Jean Renoir: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $50.00 The son of Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir (1894-1979) became one of...	It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, A Personal Biography Best Price: $6.54 Charlotte Chandler's 2005 portrait of Alfred Hitchcock reads more like an extended gossip column...	Jean Cocteau (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) Best Price: $12.50 Despite Jean Cocteau's renown as a leading figure in European cinema, his work and life have...	Luchino Visconti Best Price: $27.88 Luchino Visconti's career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the culture of...



Howard Hawks (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television) Best Price: $22.94 A significant and contemporary study of director Howard Hawks by influential film critic Robin...	Monte Hellman: His Life and Films Best Price: $39.95 Monte Hellman has made some of the most elegant and deep films of the history of American...	CHRIS MARKER (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $12.30	Pasolini and Death: Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922-1975 Best Price: $18.03 One of the most outstanding, enigmatic characters of the European intelligentsia in the latter...	Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life Best Price: $3.18 Francis Ford Coppola was born in a great year for the movies! In 1939 the director was born to...

Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola Best Price: $19.95 It's a little confusing because Phillips decides to go out of chronological order whenever he...	Voices from the Set Best Price: $26.32 When teaching film and television in Los Angeles, I had the luxury of having top industry...	Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker Best Price: $3.99 It's very boring and all. I've read and re-read my copy of Burton on Burton, and this book...	This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me: An Autobiography Best Price: $0.43 I saw this book in the book store the other night and almost bought it. Norman Jewison was on...	Kieslowski on Kieslowski Best Price: $30.09 Superb book. No really, this may very well be the book I have enjoyed the most, ever (though...

Sidney Lumet: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $14.28 Sidney Lumet (b. 1924) is considered one of the most gifted and socially conscious American...	Harold Prince: A Director's Journey Best Price: $16.66 Carol Ilson has written a readable, interesting and informative book about the career of...	Bloody Sam Best Price: $4.24 I think this is the best Peckinpah bio. Yes, even better than the excellent "If they...	The Passion of Dennis Potter: International Collected Essays Best Price: $79.95 Dennis Potter was a most remarkable, idiosyncratic, and influential screen playwright, writing...	The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen Best Price: $19.95 I have read several books on Woody Allen and this is the most brilliant so far. Those who are...

Gus Van Sant: An Unauthorized Biography Best Price: $1.94 There are a couple inaccuracies which could have been corrected had the author spoken with...	Mr Hitchcock (Life & Times) Best Price: $14.85 Lavishly illustrated, as befits a biography of this most 'visual' of moviemakers, this...	Talking to the Piano Player Best Price: $17.74 "Actors, away from their roles, are people, too." Stuart Oderman, a man I have...	Penny Marshall: An Unauthorized Biography (Renaissance Books Director) Best Price: $1.85 I just finished this book, and I have to say that I thought it was completely thoughtless and...	Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings Best Price: $3.20 I couldn't help but notice this in one of the above reviews of the book..."This book is...

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film Best Price: $11.99 Thomson writes the mini-essay like no one else. This book has info aplenty, but more than that...	D.W. Griffith: An American Life Best Price: $15.26 This is a lavishly detailed biography of the pioneering film director David Wark Griffith...	At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament Best Price: $2.28 If you can't get enough of Jarmen's films, you may love this book. It's hodgepodge: half...	Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist Best Price: $12.89 "Satoshi Kon makes an art of Japanese anime."- Rolling Stone The head-spinning anime...	Quentin Tarantino: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $13.59 After a couple of articles written about the same period of Tarantino's carreer (which was very...

Frank Capra: Castastrophe of Success Best Price: $18.70 Much like Capra's life and movies, this biography is a larger-than-life success and a mess at...	Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall Best Price: $12.40 Jacques Tourneur has long been a favorite of horror fans, French critics, and a few sensible...	Aline: la gloria por el infierno This book passed all the expectations i had before i began to read it. It is so well written...	Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers Best Price: $4.94 THIS BOOK IS ABOUT LEGENDARY FILM MAKER ROGER CORMAN. HE IS KNOWN FOR MAKING FILMS AS QUICK AND...	Von - The Life and Films of Erich Von Stroheim: Revised and Expanded Edition Best Price: $25.94 Erich Von Stroheim was surely the most unique director of the silent era. Of all of his films,...

Making the Tin Man: How I Made My First Feature Film Best Price: $24.95 This is a true story. It details the trials and tribulations the author experienced in order...	The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art Best Price: $13.95 Ashton sees postwar Japanese art from an American point of view. She is very good on the...	For My Eyes Only : My Life With James Bond Best Price: $1.59 This book is one of those few that is so hard to put down. It was a fasinating look at the Bond...	Thalberg Best Price: $28.85 "Why is it that the great ones always go first, while the schmiels live to be 100?" -...	Adventures of a Suburban Boy Best Price: $4.39 My own take on John Boorman is that he CAN be a fine film director and sometimes he is. He's...

John Sayles: An Unauthorized Biography of the Pioneer Indy Filmmaker (Renaissance Books Director) Best Price: $7.95 John Sayles is one of the most highly regarded independent filmmakers today, having created such...	Carol Reed: A Biography Best Price: $12.00 A definitive biography of the great English filmmaker details the private life and professional...	Carlos Saura: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) Best Price: $13.71 Thrust into the international spotlight in 1966 when The Hunt , his critique of the Franco...	Not Quite a Memoir: Of Films, Books, the World Best Price: $6.39 Judy Stone is disarmingly engaging, a trait and quality that has endeared her to many of her...	Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon...and Beyond Best Price: $3.99 Beveryly Gray is truly a wonderful biographer. She captures the tone and warmth of Ron Howard...

So You Wanna Be a Director? Best Price: $6.00 Ken Annakin, one of fildom's greatest international directors, has written an autobiography...	Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios Best Price: $66.82 Unlike some of the other books about Ophuls, Bacher's book goes into what lay behind some of...	They Can Kill You..but They Can't Eat You: They Can Kill You..but They Can't Eat You Best Price: $45.88 Well written and easy to read, Dawn Steel combines key events in her life with key strategies to...	Remembering Walt Best Price: $10.00 I was very happy while reading this book. I found all the things Walt's aquaintances had to say...

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