Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | 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
Kevin Smith's Secret Stash: The Definitive Visual History (Classic Movies, Film History, Cinema Books) by Kevin Smith
85.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
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20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio by Scott Eyman
39.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: Turner Classic Movies Ser.
From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney. March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership ...Show more
The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson
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Category: Film Theatre
Sight & Sound's #1 Film Book of 2020 Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the definin ...Show more
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, ...Show more
Inspiring Walt Disney - The Animation of French Decorative Arts by Wolf Burchard
82.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
How Walt Disney and the Disney Studios wove the aesthetics of French decorative arts into the fairy-tale worlds of beloved animated films, from Cinderella to Beauty and the Beast and beyond. Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what may sound like the fantasies of Hollywood dream-mak ...Show more
Five Hundred Summer Stories: A Life in IMAX® by Greg MacGillivray
75.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The filmmaker of the surfing documentary Five Summer Stories and pioneer of the IMAX format tells stories from his wild life, and even wilder career, in Hollywood and beyond. Greg MacGillivray is a man with stories. Stories of being a surfer kid in California, and making his first movie at the age of ...Show more
Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen by Fred Goodman
49.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: Turner Classic Movies Ser.
When the use of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" turned 1955's Blackboard Jungle into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic and cultural revolution. Starting with Elvis Presley and the teensploitation films of the '50s and '60s, in Rock on Film award-winn ...Show more
They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog - The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action by Edward Gross; Mark A. Altman
49.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films. In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action, be ...Show more
Tokyo Story - BFI Film Classics by Alastair Phillips
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.Telling the story of an e ...Show more
The Lives of Others - (das Leben der Anderen) - BFI Film Classics by Annie Ring
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover. Annie Ring analyses the film's ...Show more
Retro Gaming: A Byte-Sized History of Video Games by Mike Diver
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Category: Film Theatre
'Superb coffee table book' - Nintendo Life .... 'A fun read' - Retro Gamer Take a trip down memory lane with Retro Gaming, and relive the glory days (and not so glory days) of your old retro tech favourites. Published in paperback to tie-in with 50 years of console gaming, Retro Gaming is packed with ...Show more