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  • From Hollywood with Love

    The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy

    by Scott Meslow ...
    An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre.No Hollywood genre has been more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Les Enfants du Paradis

    by Jill Forbes ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Les Enfants du paradis, a magnificent picaresque saga of Parisian street life and popular culture, has been called the greatest film ever made. Completed during the Occupation, it nevertheless boasted the largest set ever to have been built in a French studio, a crowd of extras and, under the direction of Marcel Carné, some of the most accomplished technicians and actors available (including ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Le Troupeau d'Yilmaz Güney

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Le Troupeau, un chef-d'oeuvre d'Yilmaz Güney.De prison, Güney écrit des livres et des scénarios dont il confie la réalisation à des amis, à l'extérieur – son ancien assistant Şerif Gören puis Zeki Ökten à qui il procure Le Troupeau, avec des indications très précises sur la mise en scène, le jeu des acteurs, la photographie.Les grands films méritent le même traitement ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Cosa farebbe Mercoledì? Come diventare cattiva e piacere a tutti

    Translated by Nicola Ferloni ...
    SEGUI I CONSIGLI DI MERCOLEDì E TIRA FUORI LE TUE POTENZIALITÀ INESPRESSE PER LIBERARTI DALLE CONVENZIONI E DAL GIUDIZIO DEGLI ALTRISguardo immobile, determinazione incrollabile, abiti total black e gusti lugubri: l’adolescente più spietata, caustica e ribelle ha molto da insegnare quando si tratta di rivendicare con orgoglio la propria individualità, credere nelle proprie idee e non temere il ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth

    Inside the Creation of a Modern Fairy Tale

    Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film’s creation.Released in 2006, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth was hailed as a dark, thrilling masterpiece and announced the filmmaker as a major creative force, garnering him a loyal fan base attracted to his technical skill and wild imagination.To celebrate the tenth ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • 光影華爾滋:每部電影,都是一支擁抱內心的迴旋舞

    by Kristin ...
    Series series 心理勵志
    電影重度愛好者必追的深度粉專一頁華爾滋 Let Me Sing You a Waltz影評人 Kristin 第一本電影文集電影裡,我們彷彿度過了別人的人生,卻是為自己哭泣。30場燈亮之後的內心獨白,寫給耽溺於幻象中的癡迷靈魂。【影視界、文學界一致好評推薦!】李霈瑜(大霈)│金鐘獎《水下三十米》節目主持人柯貞年│《無聲》導演重點就在括號裡│影劇評論粉絲專頁殷振豪│《當男人戀愛時》電影導演張硯拓│《釀電影》主編許承傑│導演彭紹宇│作家劉定騫│作家蔡傑曦│攝影作家蔣亞妮│作家鄭宜農│創作歌手謝盈萱│演員鍾旻瑞│作家「她形容自己文字『一針一線,一點一滴』,但我想她其實是三稜鏡,文章每一字每一句,都用電影折射出有她自己色調的光芒,以及綿密彩虹。」──重點就在括號裡 影劇評論粉絲專頁<... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Zombie Movies

    The Ultimate Guide

    Featuring chronological reviews of more than 300 zombie films—from 1932's White Zombie to the AMC series *The Walking Dead—*this thorough, uproarious guide traces the evolution of one of horror cinema's most popular and terrifying creations. Fans will learn exactly what makes a zombie a zombie, go behind the scenes with a chilling production diary from Land of the Dead, peruse a bizarre list of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hocus Pocus in Focus

    The Thinking Fan's Guide to Disney's Halloween Classic

    by Aaron Wallace ...
    The Hocus Pocus "BoooOOOoooK" Fans Have Been Waiting For...In the first and only book ever written about the beloved 1993 Halloween movie, Aaron Wallace takes readers deep into the world of Hocus Pocusto learn everything they never knew. He provides a lighthearted but scholarly look at the film in its all spooky-kooky glory.You'll learn:* Mind-blowing theories about the plot, the characters, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Western Film Review

    A Second Look at Some Popular Western Movies

    by Chuck Lewis ...
    With this collection of reviews, fans of western movies can enjoy taking another special look at some of our favorites with western author Chuck Lewis as he offers us insight and a unique view of the films we like or even those we don't like. We might remember some of them with a nostalgia that doesn't match up with what the movie was all about. We think we know the stories, or what a good job of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Making of the Potterverse

    A Month-by-Month Look at Harry's First 10 Years

    by Scott Thomas ...
    Experience the magic again with this chronicle of the young wizard who took the world by storm!From the moment that J. K. Rowling conceived the idea of Harry Potter during a train ride, until the 1997 UK publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Making of the Potterverse tells the history of one of today’s most beloved sagas—in print, on screen, and in real life as waves of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Movies IV

    by Roger Ebert ...
    Essays from the influential and beloved film critic: “No one has done as much as Ebert to connect the creators of movies with their consumers.”—Richard Corliss, TimeOver more than four decades, Roger Ebert built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel, and later Richard Roeper, about the movies they loved and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El hombre que podía hacer milagros

    50 aniversario de El Padrino

    by Iván Reguera ...
    Coincidiendo con el 50 aniversario del estreno de El Padrino, Iván Reguera relata en este libro, gracias a una rigurosa documentación, muchas de las dificultades del duro rodaje de la que suele calificarse como la mejor película de la historia.Tras una encuesta realizada por la revista Empire en una votación en la que participaron 10.000 cinéfilos, entre ellos algunos de los cineastas y críticos ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Théorème de Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Les Fiches Cinéma d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Théorème, un chef-d'oeuvre de Pier Paolo Pasolini.Un prologue muet, en noir et blanc, alterne des images de désert avec une enquête de style télévisuel, sur un patron qui a remis son usine entre les mains des ouvriers. L'histoire commence ensuite.Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Théorème de Pier Paolo Pasolini.A PROPOS DES FICHES ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • A Very Merry Holiday Movie Guide

    *Must-See, Made-for-TV Movie Viewing Lists *Inspired New Traditions *Festive Watch Party Ideas

    The Movie Lover’s Guide to YuletideAre you a holiday film fan? If so, you’re in good company. Fellow made-for-TV movie buff Rachel McMillan invites you to skip the office Christmas party, put on your coziest pj’s, and crash on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate in one hand and your remote in the other to watch the movies that have become the “hallmark” of the holiday season.This one-of-a-kind ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At Least the 2nd Best Christmas Book You'll Read Today

    by Shawn McMahon ...
    Hello there. I like Christmas and I wrote a book about Christmas. This is that book and I hope you purchase it and read it. I had to call it the 2nd best book because I don’t know what you have been up to today. What if you just finished reading Twas The Night Before Christmas? I can’t compete with that. But 2nd best is still pretty solid!I feel this book has everything you could ever want in a ... Read more

    $2.77 USD

  • L’oeuvre de John Carpenter

    Les masques du maître de l’horreur

    L'histoire et l'analyse de John Carpenter, ou la clef pour comprendre son univers devenu aujourd'hui culte.Longtemps sous-considéré, John Carpenter a peu à peu acquis un statut de cinéaste culte, au point de recevoir le Carrosse d’or en 2019, récompense spéciale décernée au festival de Cannes. Spécialiste du cinéma d’horreur, il a réalisé des films références, tels Halloween et The Thing. L’œuvre ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essentials

    52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter

    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    Showcasing 52 Essential films from the silent era through the 1980s, Turner Classic Movies invites you into a world filled with stirring performances, dazzling musical numbers, and bold directorial visions that mark the greatest moments in film history.Since its inception on Turner Classic Movies in 2001, The Essentials has become the ultimate series for movie lovers to expand their knowledge of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Performance

    by Colin MacCabe ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual explicitness and formal radicalism that attempts were made to destroy the negative. In his study of the film, Colin MacCabe draws on extensive ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • BEST 250+ KINDLE FIRE HD APPS

    The report ‘Best 250 + Kindle Fire Apps’ is written with an intention of introducing readers to best 250+ Kindle Fire apps for their favorite gadget. Readers can use the information presented in this report to learn about some of the most popular app categories including Entertainment, Reading, Productivity, News papers and Magazine, Food, Lifestyle and Gaming along with their price and rating. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Notes on the Cinematograph

    Translated by Jonathan Griffin ...
    The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors—models, as he called them—and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To be or Not to be

    by Peter Barnes ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    In 'To Be or Not to Be' (1942), Ernest Lubitsch brought his legendary comic touch to the most unpromising situation: life in Nazi-occupied Poland. In this study, Peter Barnes considers what it is to make comedy out of tragedy. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Heist Film

    Stealing with Style

    by Daryl Lee ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (Ocean's Eleven, Gambit, How to Steal a Million) and splashing across screens in the 2000s in remake after ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • How to Watch a Movie

    by David Thomson ...
    From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema. Now he offers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Night and the City

    by Andrew Pulver ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Night and the City (1950), directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, is the compelling story of a hoodlum on the make in postwar London. Andrew Pulver's study of the film traces the film's production history and places it in the context of British film noir and the urban mythology of its West End setting. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD