Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
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Category: Film
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsom ...Show more
BOOK OF THE BANNED: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors and the Scenes That Made Australia Sweat by Simon Miraudo
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Category: Film
BLASPHEMY AND HORROR! SAUCY SWEDES! LUKE SKYWALKER'S CHARRED AUNT & UNCLE! Australia has censored it all. Did you know Aussie audiences were originally banned from watching bona fide classics The Night of the Hunter, Breathless and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (to name just a few out of literal hund ...Show more
Star Wars 100 Objects: Illuminating Items From a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... by DK
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Category: Film
100 key objects and artefacts from the epic Star Wars saga100 objects that capture the excitement, mystery, and mythology of Star Wars.See how these artefacts, and many more, impacted key characters and events. From revered heirlooms such as Darth Vader's mask and the Skywalker lightsaber to a Tusken ga ...Show more
Houses with a Story: A Dragon's Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Yoshida Seiji; Jan Mitsuko Cash (Translator)
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Category: Film
For fans of Studio Ghibli, artist Seiji Yoshida's fantastical art book is a perfect gift that transports readers to imaginary houses, each with their own story to tell. A dreamer's tree house.A mechanic's cottage.A submerged city. In Houses with a Story, more than 30 imaginative houses and the people wh ...Show more
Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
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Category: Film | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. In FilmQuake, Ian Haydn Smith selects the 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, recepti ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
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Category: Film | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
The Method - How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
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Category: Film
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 * A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 * A 2022 New York Times Holiday Gift Guide selection "Entertaining and illuminating."--The New Yorker * "Compulsively readable."--New York Times * "Delicious, humane, probing."--Vulture * "The best and most important book about acting I've e ...Show more
Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool by JAMES CLARKE
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Category: Film | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Once, when asked how he'd like to be remembered, Paul Newman replied: "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried. Tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being." As an actor who be ...Show more
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope by Brad Weismann
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Category: Film
From the silent-film era to the blockbusters of today, Horror Unmasked is a fun-filled, highly illustrated dive into the past influences and present popularity of the horror film genre. Horror Unmasked offers a general introduction to the popular film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, ...Show more
Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home by Sam Twyford-Moore
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Category: Film
Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history — starting with the world’s first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia’s film talent goes to the United States, looking f ...Show more
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan
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Category: Film
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis floating facedown in ageing star Norma Desmond's ...Show more
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens
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Category: Film
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying "new kind of history" (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton's unique creative genius in the context of his time. Born the same year as the ...Show more