San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection made in 1937 from the writings of British and American Film Critics, reprinted in 1971. More
New York: Picador, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts―from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of..... More
Hong Kong: Reel East Press, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. This is a colorful and insightful analysis of 36 classic Hong Kong kung fu movies. Drawing on first hand interviews and archive materials, the first volume of this groundbreaking work examines 18 genre classics in exhaustive detail. A must have for..... More
Hong Kong: Reel East Press, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. For the first time, the life and work of The Little Dragon is examined from the unique perspective of a Hong Kong film-maker. Bruce Lee is the most famous Chinese man of all time, and remains the martial arts movie..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2016. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gifts. The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one..... More
London: Picador, 2013. Paperback. An original screenplay by the author of No Country For Old Men, The Counselor is a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's original screenplay is the..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1924, this enduring classic fired the opening salvo in a campaign for serious recognition of the importance of popular culture. Seldes - a journalist, editor, and cultural critic - believed that for a...... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2018. Third Printing. Paperback. The story of Duncan Leung, childhood friend of Bruce Lee, disciple of legendary master Yip Man, and New York kung fu teacher is valuable not only for its insights into martial arts but also for its portrayal of the lost Hong Kong..... More
Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Who was Welles? A fat guy with a deep voice who drank a lot of sherry? An unreliable film-maker who always went over time and over budget? One of the most innovative storytellers of the century? He was all of this ana more..... More
New York: Abrams Press, 2019. Mike McQuade (jacket design). First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2016. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Introduction by J.M.G Le Clézio, translated from the French 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..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Cambridge Film Classics series. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red-haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit—what do these..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. "I feel like a conductor and the audience's feelings are my instruments. I will be like, 'Laugh, laugh, now be horrified/' When someone does that to me I've had a good time at the movies." Quentin Tarantino is one of..... More
Hong Kong: Reel to Reel Institute, 2020. Rick Lo (illustrations). First Edition. Softcover. A storybook that introduces the origins and technological development of the cinema! There is a rich collection of historical examples from the East and the West, which provides a simple and vivid description on the early film..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Trade Paperback. More
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