Liveright Publishing Corporation, July 2018. Trade Paperback. Celebrated as an "exhilarating account" of a revolutionary new medium (Booklist), Francis Ford Coppola's indispensable guide to live cinema is a boon for moviegoers, film students, and teachers alike. As digital movie-making, like live sports, can now be performed by one director--or by..... More
Seagull Books, December 2017. Trade Paperback. Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin, as well as, in..... More
Gallery Books, April 2025. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, director Rob Reiner and cocreators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and its upcoming sequel. Since its original release in..... More
Da Capo, March 1986. Trade Paperback. Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinéma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinéma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit..... More
Grand Central Publishing, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Now available as an ebook for the first time! No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you..... More
Smith Street Books, April 2026. Hardcover. Find David Lynch and more in eight of his iconic movie and TV worlds. Illustrated with incredible detail by British artist Kev Gahan, this book is an interactive homage to one of cinema's most unique minds: David Lynch. On each page, Lynch hides among..... More
Penguin Books, February 2009. Trade Paperback. One of The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time "Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I've ever read in my life." --Quentin Tarantino The New York Times bestseller that follows the making of five films at..... More
Penguin Books, May 2024. Trade Paperback. Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, Conquest of the Useless, the legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog's diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, one of his most revered and classic films In 1982, the visionary directory Werner Herzog released Fitzcarraldo, a lavish film about a would-be..... More
Penguin Publishing Group, October 2024. Trade Paperback. Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in..... More
Schiffer Publishing, May 2015. Hardcover. Video cover art is a unique and largely lost artform representing a period of unabashed creativity during the video rental boom of the 1980s to early 1990s. The art explodes with a succulent, indulgent blend of design, illustration, typography, and hilarious copywriting. Written and curated..... More
Counterpoint LLC, March 2026. Hardcover. PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF ANGEL DOWN "A stroke of genius! This is the definitive love letter to the film, written with such meticulous passion and demented glee that you feel yourself standing on the set during the shoot." --Greg Nicotero The New York Times bestselling..... More
University of Minnesota Press, February 2026. Trade Paperback. A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words, take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero." The..... More
Vintage, May 1983. Trade Paperback. Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his..... More
Dorothy, a publishing project, October 2016. Trade Paperback. The second in Nathalie Le?ger's acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. "I believe there is a miracle in Wanda," wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. "Usually..... More
Tarcherperigee, January 2007. Hardcover. In this "unexpected delight" (The Boston Globe), visionary filmmaker, musician, and actor David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare..... More
Random House Trade, June 2019. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family "Insightful . . . an impressively industrious and comprehensive account..... More
Grand Central Publishing, March 2026. Hardcover. "A bombshell, jaw-dropping memoir" --People Magazine #1 New York Times Bestseller Global icon Liza Minnelli shares her inspiring story: stepping out from the long shadow of a mega-star mother and legendary film director father, fighting a lifetime battle with addiction, and emerging from it..... More
Running Press Adult, April 2025. Hardcover. In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller--Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar--offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text, photos, and 10 new..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2024. Hardcover. Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of..... More
Ecco Press, April 2023. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller "A landmark and long-overdue cultural history." --Vogue The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak "Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful..... More
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. "My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 2023. Hardcover. Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn't check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it "two thumbs up." On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men..... More
Seagull Books, February 2019. Trade Paperback. "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest," wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual images, quietly patient dramatic structures, and visionary symbolism. Time within Time is both a diary and a notebook, maintained by Tarkovsky..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1985. Trade Paperback. Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut--providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time. In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock..... More
Harper Perennial, November 2024. Trade Paperback. "Sam Wasson's supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career. . . . A marvel of unshowy reportage."--New York Times The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with..... More
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