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My Favourite Movies: From a Century of Films and the World's Best Directors by David Stratton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Film
Australia's best-loved film critic shares the movies which are his personal favourites of all time, as well as titbits and insights from the leading directors and actors he has met over half a century. Wondering what to watch next? Discover a new movie or a new director among David Stratton's personal f ...Show more
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Iconic Filmmakers Ser.
An engaging and in-depth examination of the work of Guillermo Del Toro, one of the most revered directors working in modern cinema. Loaded with rich imagery and a chapter dedicated to each of his films - including Oscar winners Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water alongside blockbuster hits such as He ...Show more
Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Iconic Filmmakers Ser.
The definitive reference for all Wes Anderson fans. Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysis of his incredible films - including the classics The Grand Budapest Hotel, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom as well as Anderson's highly anticipated new release The French Dispatch - thi ...Show more
Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition by Ryder Windham, Pablo Hidalgo, Kristin Baver, Daniel Wallace
$69.99 AUD
Category: Film
A comprehensive, fully updated guide to more than forty years of the beloved Star Wars franchiseDiscover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star WarsT Year By Year ...Show more
Goodbye, Dragon Inn by Nick Pinkerton
$21.95 AUD
Category: Film
Is cinema really dead? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton takes a deep dive into Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and porten ...Show more
Wim Wenders: Instant Stories by Patti Smith; Sam Shephard; Wim Wenders
$75.00 AUD
Category: Film
As well as being an acclaimed filmmaker and a member of the New German Cinema movement, Wim Wenders (b. 1945) has also made an international name for himself as a photographer, with shows all over the world. While previous exhibitions have focused on his large-format colour photography, he now opens a t ...Show more
Spoiler Alert The Badass book of Movie Plots by Steven Espinoza; Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay; Chris Vandar Kaay
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film
Celebrate Hollywood film-making in all its formulaic and predictable glory. Spoiler Alert takes 38 mainstream movie genres, from 'Teen Sex Comedy' and 'Buddy Action Comedy' to 'Film Noir Detective Thriller' and 'Alien Invasion Thriller', and through detailed illustrations reveals what makes them so hila ...Show more
Robert Beavers by Rebekah Rutkoff (Editor)
$58.99 AUD
Category: Film | Series: FilmmuseumSynemaPublications Ser.
In a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) and Th ...Show more
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film
Here's what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. "Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and you ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Film
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers th ...Show more
101 Marvellous Movies You May Have Missed by David Stratton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film
Are you sick of trawling through movies you don't recognise on Netflix? Sick of reading short film descriptions that sound boring? Don't know what to watch next? Let much-loved film critic David Stratton introduce you to movies that you may not have heard of, and tell you why they are worth seeing.
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
$44.99 AUD
Category: Film
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. From her creation of the "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yor ...Show more
