Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B ...Show more
Movie Lists - 397 Ways to Pick a DVD by Paul Simpson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
A guide to films which are assembled by genre, actor, director, theme or country of origin - and the reviews are informative.
Colin Firth - The Biography by Alison Maloney
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
From the moment Colin Firth took on the role of Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", emerging from the lake in 'that scene', he was set on a path from sex symbol to national treasure and Hollywood star. This biography reveals his early life in Nigeria; the secrets of his escape ...Show more
Kate Remembered by A Scott Berg
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Biography of Katherine Hepburn
Andy Warhol - Films and Paintings: The Factory Years by Peter Gidal
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: good
In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell’s Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniqu ...Show more
Hype and Glory by William Goldman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good
An account by the only person to have been a judge at both the Cannes film festival and the Miss America pageant. The result is a book which captures the glamour, serious business, celebrities, fiascos, successes, starlets, groupies, judges and judging at these media circuses.
Judy Garland by David Shipman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
From her portrayal of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to her concert performances, Judy Garland's fans never deserted her. Between the child star and the burnt-out singer lay years of mismanagement, misaliances and misuse.
A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Film
Revised, updated, and expanded, here is the indispensable reference for passionate filmgoers. Each of the 1,000 entries on leading international actors, directors, and producers is a carefully considered, perceptive, often provocative essay. As a result, the book is a major work of film criticism of the ...Show more
Writers at the Movies - Twenty-Six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-Six Memorable Movies by Jim Shepard (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In this anthology twenty-six contemporary fiction writers and poets offer short essays on a single movie that inspired, seduced, horrified, or fascinated them, giving readers a rare glimpse of the writer's perspective on film.
Cinematic Landscapes - Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan by Linda C. Ehrlich (Editor); David Desser (Editor); Linda Ehrlich (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. In these original essays, noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositional techniques, and construction of images in these traditional and modern art forms also inform filmma ...Show more
What Happens Next - A History of American Screenwriting by Marc Norman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Screenwriters have always been viewed as Hollywood's stepchildren. Silent-film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett forbade his screenwriters from writing anything down, for fear they'd get inflated ideas about themselves as creative artists. The great midcentury director John Ford was known to answer studio exe ...Show more
A Decade of New Zealand Film - Sleeping Dogs to Came A Hot Friday by Nicholas Reid
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good