The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson
24.99 AUD
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
24.99 AUD
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
24.99 AUD
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
27.99 AUD
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
Kid Stays in the Picture A Notorious Life by Robert Evans (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Cardiff University Cardiff University Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Massachusetts Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Massachusetts)
55.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling. With black-and-white photographs from t ...Show more
The Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen
36.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and 90s Hollywood and the beloved films - from Die Hard to The Terminator - that made them stars. This wildly entertaining account of the golden age of the action movie charts Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger's carnage-packed j ...Show more
The Gutenberg Parenthesis - The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Jeff Jarvis
40.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture - a worldview shaped by the completeness, ...Show more