Four by Truffaut - The 400 Blows & Love at Twenty & Bed and Board & Stolen Kisses
Truffaut
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Emotion Pictures
Wim Wenders
Faber & Faber
In these essays on the cinema, the author documents the obsessions leading to "Paris, Texas" and beyond. He discusses rock and roll in the movies, avant-garde film, questions of German identity and his passi...
$18.99
Magic Hour - A Life in Movies
Jack Cardiff
Faber & Faber
The most celebrated director of colour photography tells the story of his adventures in celluloid. The 'Magic Hour' is the special light that occurs just at twilight, and a very special light is what cameram...
$12.99
Living in Oblivion
Tom DiCillo
Faber & Faber
Living in Oblivion is a satiric look behind the scenes of the new wave of independent film-makers in America today - the world of Hal Hartley, Richard Linklater, Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarant...
$12.99
Diner - Faber Reel Classics
Barry Levinson
Faber & Faber
Baltimore 1959, and a gang of male friends in their early twenties reconvene for the wedding of their pal Eddie. Boogie is the hustler of the group, a trainee hairdresser mired in gambling debts. Shreevie is...
$14.99
A Life in Movies
Michael Powell
Faber & Faber
This first volume of Michael Powell's memoirs ranges from his boyhood and his first job in film, to his work with legendary film makers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Korda, and the pinnacle of his collaborati...
$34.95
Bad Boy Bubby
Rolf de Heer
Currency Press
A film about a man brutalised from birth by his mother, won the Best Director, Best Original Screenplay at the 1994 AFI awards and the Bronze Plaque from the Catholic Church OCIC at the Venice Film Festival ...
$27.99
The Big Swap
Niall Johnson
Screenpress
Written, directed and produced by one of Britain's "new wave" directors, Niall Johnson, "The Big Swap" paints an emotive and erotically charged picture of thirtysomething couples caught up in events moving b...
$18.99
Oscar and Lucinda - Screenplay
Laura Jones
Faber & Faber
A screenplay adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Set in Victorian England and Australia but told with a contemporary perspective, it depicts the fatal and...
$12.99
The Actors
Conor McPherson
Nick Hern Books
A struggling Irish actor (Michael Caine) helps an actor friend (Dylan Moran) con a significant amount of cash out of a Dublin gangster They find themselves unwittingly drawn into a large-scale heist whi...
$21.99
Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh
Faber & Faber
In Topsy-Turvy Mike Leigh, that master of contemporary British tragi-comedy, transports us back to 1880s London and the lives of those much-loved masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan Leigh explores ...
$12.99
Copland & Heavy
James Mangold
Faber & Faber
Two screenplays by an important American film-maker. Heavy charts the relationship between Victor, an overweight pizza chef, and Callie, a young waitress who comes to work in his mother's bar. Victor's obses...
$12.99
An Autobiography of British Cinema
Brian McFarlane
Methuen
This volume of first-hand reminiscences celebrating 50 years of British filmmaking, records the Golden Age of British Cinema as remembered by 180 great and best-loved names of the British cinema Those fe...
$27.99
Pennies from Heaven
Dennis Potter
Faber & Faber
The television screenplay of Potter's "play with music, in six parts", which was first broadcast in 1978. Set in the 1930s, it concerns the amorous and geographical wanderings of a travelling sheet-music sal...
$12.99
Erin Brockovich
Susannah Grant
Nick Hern Books
The Oscar-winning true-life story of an uneducated, 'trailer-trash' single mother taking on a big corporation and winning, 'Erin Brockovich is outrageously, even shamelessly entertaining. ... Roberts comes o...
$21.99
Freedom's Pioneer - John McGrath's Work in Theatre & Film & Television
David Bradbury & Susanne Capon
University of Exeter
John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the central impo...
$29.99
Boogie Nights - Faber Reel Classics
Paul Thomas Anderson
Faber & Faber
'Everyone is blessed with One Special Thing', says Eddie Adams, who is endowed with a rather stunning piece of equipment that enables him to become a shining star in the world of 'adult entertainment' Depri...
$14.99
Writing the Great American Screenplay - 4 CD Audio Seminar
Richard Walter & Froug Willian
Writer's Audio Shop
Writers once dreamed of writing novels. Now screenplays top the dream list. In this fast-moving and entertaining seminar, two top teachers explain the sometimes ungentle art of writing salable movie and ...
$49.99
Radioactive Duologues for Radio & Stage and Screen
Marina Caldarone & Marilyn Le Conte - eds
Methuen
This draws together over thirty extracts from the best contemporary plays for radio and stage Designed as a resource for actors working in radio, theatre or television, this collection of extracts is perfec...
$21.99
Chinatown & The Last Detail
Robert Towne
Grove Press
Robert Towne is one of America's most influential screenwriters His screenplays are revered in Hollywood, and his lines and scenes are quoted from memory by countless fans. Collected here are two of his mos...
$14