Colours of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes by Charles Bramesco
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Taking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in their success. The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism and act ...Show more
Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by Karen Han
$70.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Brilliantly illustrated and designed by the London-based film magazine Little White Lies, Bong Joon Ho examines the career of the South Korean writer/director, who has been making critically acclaimed feature films for more than two decades. First breaking out into the international scene with festival ...Show more
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, e ...Show more
Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
In time for Scorsese's 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese's journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven SpielbergFew filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made o ...Show more
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
$34.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results ...Show more
The Godfather, Part II by Jon Lewis
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. This despite the fact that it consists largely of meetings between aspiring 'Godfather' Michael Corleone ...Show more
Tokyo Story - BFI Film Classics by Alastair Phillips
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.Telling the story of an e ...Show more
The Lives of Others - (das Leben der Anderen) - BFI Film Classics by Annie Ring
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover. Annie Ring analyses the film's ...Show more
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time writer-director Bruce Robinson's experiences, this virtually plot-free story follows two out-of-work actors (Withnai ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock - BFI Film Classics by Anna Backman Rogers
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculia ...Show more
They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog - The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action by Edward Gross; Mark A. Altman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films. In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action, be ...Show more
Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective by Tom Shone
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration of one of cinema's most enduring talents. Since his emergence in the early seventies, Martin Scorsese has become one of the most respected names in cinema. Cl ...Show more