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Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker
by Ian Christie (Editor), Andrew Moor (Editor)
Paperback or Hardcover
by Jerome Silbergeld
The "Holy Grail" for Kubrick fans...
**BONUS** Books in the first print run will each include a twelve-frame film strip from a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey owned by Stanley Kubrick Made in cooperation with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and the Stanley Kubrick Estate.
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Essential Cinema by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Kon Ichikawa (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)
by James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario
Tokyo Story
by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, Donald Richie, Eric Klestadt
by David Desser
INTRODUCTIONS
Further Reading:
Understanding Movies by Louis D. Giannetti
Screening History by Gore Vidal
DIRECTOR STUDIES
Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry by Maya Turovskaya
Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s by Donald Kirihara
Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography by by Peter Cowie
Films of Luis Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire by Peter William Evans
BOOKS BY DIRECTORS
(including memoirs and collected interviews)
Turnaroud: A Memoir by Milos Forman
Schrader on Schrader by Paul Schrader and Kevin Jackson
Childhood Days: A Memoir by Satyajit Ray
Dreyer in Double Reflection : Translation of Carl Th. Dreyer's Writings About the Film ed. by Donald Skoller
Double Vision: My Life in Film by Andrzej Wajda
Pieces of Time by Peter Bogdanovich
THE FILM INDUSTRY
Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca by Aljean Harmetz
GENRE STUDY
Spike, Mike, Slackers, and Dykes by John Pierson
The Samurai Film by Alain Silver
Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History ed. by Arthur Nolletti and David Desser
DEFA : East German Cinema, 1946-1992 by Sean Allan and John Sandford
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'COOL' POSTER BOOKS
Japanese Animation
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Silent Film
Film Noir
The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
by Foster Hirsch
Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
by Nicholas Christopher
French Cinema
The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew
Chinese/Hong Kong/Taiwanese Cinema
Japanese Cinema
The Japan Journals : 1947-2004,
by Donald Richie
Ozu by Donald Ritchie
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