The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film
"Entertaining ... a remarkable story." The New Yorker . "Delicious, humane, probing." Vulture, Most Anticipated Books of 2022. "The best and most important book about acting I've ever read." Nathan Lane. From the coauthor of The World Only Spins Forward comes the first cultural history of Method a ...Show more
Asteroid City by Wes Anderson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Film
ASTEROID CITY (adapted from a "hypothetical" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of the annual Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spec ...Show more
Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home by Sam Twyford-Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film
Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history — starting with the world’s first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia’s film talent goes to the United States, looking f ...Show more
Derek Jarman by Derek Jarman ; Laetitia Chauvin (Editor); Clément Dirié (Editor); Claire Le Restif (Editor); Elisabeth Lebovici (Text by)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Film
Writings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher Turner. Gathering newly commissioned essays devoted to specific - and sometimes lesser-known - aspects of the artist's life and work, and extensi ...Show more
The Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen
$37.00 AUD
Category: Film
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 Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design by Vincent LoBrutto
$42.00 AUD
Category: Film
Turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. Also features guidelines for digital production.
Goddess: Fierce Women on Film by Bethan Johnson, Matt Millikan, Sarah Tutton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Film
The screen goddess is a formidable figure, renowned for her power, complexity and so often beauty. From Joan Crawford and Bette Davis to Laverne Cox and Michelle Yeoh, these women disrupted and redefined the female ideal by pushing boundaries, fighting gender stereotypes and transcending tired tropes. ...Show more
John Darling - An Australian Filmmaker in Bali by Graeme MacRae (Editor); Anton Lucas (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Film
Acclaimed filmmaker John Darling lived in Bali through the 1970s and 1980s. During that time, he created the films that established him as the leading foreign filmmaker of Indonesia. This included Lempad of Bali, which celebrated the life and times of the astonishing Balinese artist Gusti Nyoman Lempad. ...Show more
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Film
Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy - an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career, with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One Is Walking, he ...Show more
The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Gian Piero Brunetta
$63.00 AUD
Category: Film
A guide to Italian film. It traces the history of filmmaking in Italy, since its origins in the silent era through its golden age in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and its subsequent decline to its resurgence. It covers more than 1,500 films, discussing renowned masters, as well as directors lesser known ...Show more
Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image by Joseph Luzzi
$61.99 AUD
Category: Film
In this comprehensive guide, some of the world's leading scholars consider the issues, films, and filmmakers that have given Italian cinema its enduring appeal. Readers will explore the work of such directors as Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini as well as a host of subjec ...Show more
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
$67.00 AUD
Category: Film
A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent c ...Show more