DZIGA VERTOV by HICKS JEREMY
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Category: Film & TV | Series: KINO: The Russian Cinema Series
Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, 'Man with a Movie Camera'. Recently, however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a ...Show more
Despite the System : Orson Welles versus the Hollywood Studios by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Film & TV
Orson Welles was all too aware, in his later years, that posterity would judge his life to have been essentially a failure: that it would construct a neat parabola of decline that would arc down from his youthful masterpiece, "Citizen Kane", to the wine adverts he used to fund his latter-day imbibing. I ...Show more
Which Side Are You On? Ken Loach and his films by Anthony Hayward
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Category: Film & TV | Reading Level: very good
The definitive biography of one of Britain's best film-makers Making groundbreaking dramas for the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series in the 1960s, Ken Loach was one of the first to show life as it was really lived. With the film Kes, the director established an international reputation. After falling on ...Show more
The Beauty of the Beasts : Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars by Ralph Helfer
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Category: Film & TV
"The Beauty of the Beasts" is a chronicle of many years Ralph Helfer spent as a Hollywood animal behaviourist, and is full of behind-the-scenes accounts of the many television programs and films in which Helfer's animals appeared, including "Charlie's Angels" and "The Ten Commandments", and the stars he ...Show more
The Film Buff's DVD Companion 2007 by Paul Harris
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Category: Film & TV
Now in its third year, this indispensable guide to DVD viewing keeps growing in size and popularity. Paul Harris provides considered and persuasive reviews on hundreds of the best films in cinema over eighty years and now available on DVD. This year
Tuning Up at Dawn: A memoir of Music and Majorca by Tomas Graves
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Category: Film & TV | Reading Level: very good
Tomas Graves was born in and belongs to Majorca. His father, the great love poet Robert Graves, famously ended up in the beautiful Mediterranean island pretty much by accident, but it is the happiest accident of Tomas' life. His love for the special beauties of Majorcan culture shines on every page of t ...Show more
Halliwell's: the Movies That Matter by .
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Category: Film & TV
A major reworking of Halliwell's, the definitive brand in movie publishing, featuring the Editor's personal selection of 3,000 essential films -- from the 1930s classics to the modern-day blockbusters. Includes over 350 new releases in the UK in the last year, plus stand-alone feature articles on new ta ...Show more