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62) The $11 billion year: from Sundance to the Oscars, an inside look at the changing Hollywood system
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicling the making and marketing of movies released in 2012, from low-budget indies to studio blockbusters, a reporter who has written about Hollywood for more than twenty-five years covers every aspect of the billion-dollar global motion picture industry.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by anecdotes about and interviews with more than 200 show-business luminaries, a compelling biography of Hollywood's first superagent - one of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s - charts show business as it evolved throughout the years.
Author
Publisher
It Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Showcases numerous Hollywood film sets in photographs, original sketches, and previously unpublished renderings while sharing behind-the-scenes stories about how final scenes in historical movies were ultimately accomplished.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In "The Moment of Psycho, " film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.
69) He: a novel
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Awed like everyone else by Chaplin's genius (and ambition and cruelty), Stan Laurel despaired of ever finding his own path to success or happiness. When impresario Hal Roach put him and Oliver Hardy, affectionately known as Babe, together on screen, the partnership bloomed into a professional and personal relationship of lifelong depth. Laurel became one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known. He knew both adoration and humiliation;...
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
472 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A deluxe, year-by-year chronicle of the Academy Awards, with an entertaining text, hundreds of star-studded photographs, and complete lists of the nominees and winners.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In chapters structured by themes and motifs ('Time'; 'Chaos'), Tom Shone considers Nolan's thoughts on movies, on plots; on time, identity, perception, daydreams. Here is Nolan on the evolution of his pictures, and the writers, artists, directors, and thinkers who have inspired and informed his films. To write the book, Tom Shone, who has known Nolan for more than two decades and who spent months with the director, was given unprecedented access...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author and film historian takes readers backstage of West Side Story, recounting the drama and rivalries onscreen played to equal intensity behind-the-scenes, while still achieving extraordinary artistic feats.
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary of Peter Biskind's controversial, best-selling book, which chronicles edgy, impressionistic pictures made by maverick, now-legendary directors such as Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, Altman, Polanski and Peckinpah. Includes interviews with many directors, writers, actors, etc. Bonus disc (ca. 102 min.) includes more interviews including one with Peter Biskind.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
x, 451 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charts the origins and often startling particulars of the long-standing feud between the two Hollywood legends, and traces their respective careers.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of the legendary silent film star, movie pioneer, and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself. Pickford co-created United Artists Studios, spearheaded the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and established the Motion Picture Retirement Home. Mary, known as 'America's Sweetheart' was the first actress to earn one million dollars....
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (316 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The greatest variety acts of the past--humorists, bands, vaudevillians, dramatists, dancers and more--return for a second collection of the earliest of the venerable Vitaphone sound shorts. Entertainers from coast to coast, from stage and screen, from the heights of Brooklyn to the valleys of Hollywood, all shared the spotlight as cinema learned to play with sound. Nestled in among 35 Jazz Age gems to be found on this 2-Disc collection are appearances...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the true story of its making. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the...
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