London: Faber and Faber, 2004. Paul Cronin (ed.), Martin Scorsese (foreword). Reprint. Paperback. A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of Sweet Smell of Success After more than twenty years in the film industry as a screenwriter, storyboard editor, and director of memorable films such..... More
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
Hong Kong: Readymade Group, 2020. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Issue no. 2 of local, indie zine AWW @aww.mag (the BEAR issue!) is now out and available at our bookshop, featuring yet more interviews with some of the world’s best illustrators..... 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
Richmond, Victoria: Heinemann Publishers Australia, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Rare. Words and Images is the first Australian book to examine the relationship between literature and film. Taking nine major examples of recent films adapted from Australian novels - including The Getting if Wisdom, My Brilliant Career and The Year of..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2012. Second Edition. Softcover. In this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key elements and players that have contributed to its artistic and technical..... More
London: Bloomsbury Circus, 1995. Clive Coote (photographs). First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. Bringing Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, "Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries" also showcases Thompson's unreserved, often hilarious diaries that..... More
London: Vintage, 1991. First Printing. Trade Paperback. 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
London: Routledge, 1993. Second Edition. Softcover. 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 South Wales: Minh Bui Jones, 2019. Elsie Herberstein (cover illustrator). Volume 4, Number 4. Loose-bound. Mekong Review is a literary magazine from Southeast Asia. Every quarter, it publishes book reviews, essays, interviews, profiles, poetry and fiction from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and beyond..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. Grant Gee (photographs). First UK Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Translated by Ekin Oklap. The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Andrew Rae (illus.). First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. "It's been a long time since I've come across a set of lists quite so piquant and entertaining as Ten Bad Dates With De Niro."-Louis Bayard, Salon (Critic’s Pick) What are the Top Ten movies for..... 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
London: Sphere Books Limited, 1978. Reprint. Paperback. A novelization of the classic movie by Steven Spielberg. More
London: Penguin Classics, 2009. First Penguin Classics Edition. Fifteen Printing. Paperback. A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation..... More
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