Polanski by Christopher Sandford
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Category: Film & TV
Fifty years ago, a young director named Roman Polanski made his first complete film - a two-minute student exercise which he called "Murder". In the half-century since, Polanski has become an iconic figure, widely admired for his mordant, sexually-charged films and yet derided as - in his own words - 'a ...Show more
Burton on Burton by Salisbury
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Category: Film & TV
Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Mars Attacks! - not to mention his twisted take on the tales of Batman, Sleepy Hollow, and Planet of ...Show more
Sci- Fi Movies by John Scalzi
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Category: Film & TV
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive companion to the 'final frontier' of film. It explores cinema's fascination with space exploration, time travel and fantastical worlds, and tells the stories behind the movies that have been expanding our universe since film began. Features include:T ...Show more
Poetics Of Cinema 2 by Raul Ruiz
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Category: Film & TV
"Eleven years separate these lines from the first part of my Poetics of Cinema. Meanwhile the world has changed and cinema with it. Poetics of Cinema, 1 had much of a call to arms about it. What I write today is rather more of a consolatio philosophica. However, let no one be mistaken about this, a heal ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Film Noir by Alexander Ballinger
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Category: Film & TV
From dimly lit streets and glamorous apartments to world-weary detectives and irresistible femmes fatales, "The Rough Guide to Film Noir" illuminates every corner of cinema's darkest and most compelling genre. From early masterpieces like "Double Indemnity" and "Kiss Me Deadly" through to neo-noir class ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies by Bob McCabe
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Category: Film & TV
Cracking open a whole barrel-load of movie mirth, The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies gives you the ultimate lowdown on laughter in the cinema, from Airplane! to Withnail and I, and from John Belushi to Billy Wilder. Features include: The comedy story: Tells the tale of the genre, from the mayhem of th ...Show more
Cult Movies by Paul Simpson
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Rough Guides Reference Titles
This new edition of the Rough Guide to Cult Movies offers a new improved blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. From 'A Bout de Souffle' to 'Zoltan Hound of Dracula', this guide selects films ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies by Lloyd Hughes
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Category: Film & TV
From The Godfather to Get Carter, tales of organized crime have produced many of the big screen's greatest films and most memorable moments. The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies gives you the low-down on all aspects of the genre. It's all here, from James Cagney and his fellow 1930s mobsters right up to t ...Show more