Walking with Ghosts - A memoir by Gabriel Byrne

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B yrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, he harboured a childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old, Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory labourer to get by. In his spare time he visited the cinema, where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of '60s Ireland.He revelled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin's streets, populated by characters as eccentric and remarkable as any in fiction, those who spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambivalence of fame.Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies. ...Show more

Movie Lists - 397 Ways to Pick a DVD by Paul Simpson

$12.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

A guide to films which are assembled by genre, actor, director, theme or country of origin - and the reviews are informative.

Ever, Dirk - The Bogarde Letters by Dirk Bogarde; John Coldstream (ed.)

$30.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine

The success of John Coldstream's bestselling biography of Dirk Bogarde demonstrates that the interest in one of Britain's leading actors, memoirists and novelists does not diminish, even though it is a decade since his death. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde wrote to each correspondent according to the nature of the friendship, but invariably he was frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no coversation with Dirk Bogarde was dull.Recipients included the film director Joseph Losey, Bogarde's first publisher Norah Smallwood, the film critic Dilys Powell, and the novelist Penelope Mortimer. ...Show more

Colin Firth - The Biography by Alison Maloney

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

From the moment Colin Firth took on the role of Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", emerging from the lake in 'that scene', he was set on a path from sex symbol to national treasure and Hollywood star. This biography reveals his early life in Nigeria; the secrets of his escape to Canada with actress Meg Tilly, and more. ...Show more

Kate Remembered by A Scott Berg

$16.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Biography of Katherine Hepburn

Andy Warhol - Films and Paintings: The Factory Years by Peter Gidal

$12.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: good

In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell’s Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniqu es in the creation of paintings obsessed with modern clichés--car crashes, Coke bottles, sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. At the same time, his films-- Blowjob, Sleep, Chelsea Girls, Lonesome Cowboys --forced us to look at the object/subject, transformed the bizarre into the banal, and remade the form and content of cinematic experiment and production.Originally published in 1971, Peter Gidal’s Andy Warhol was the first book written on Warhol’s films and paintings, a concise and astute analysis of an artistic revolution. ”Idol of the jet set,” ”trend-maker,” superstar, Warhol was taken at more than face value in Gidal’s unconventional and insightful exploration. Twenty years later, Andy Warhol remains a seminal text, essential for a serious understanding of the artist and the work. ...Show more

Cluck! The True Story of Chickens in the Cinema by Jon Stephen Fink

$10.00 NZD

Category: Film

Hype and Glory by William Goldman

$10.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good

An account by the only person to have been a judge at both the Cannes film festival and the Miss America pageant. The result is a book which captures the glamour, serious business, celebrities, fiascos, successes, starlets, groupies, judges and judging at these media circuses.

Judy Garland by David Shipman

$18.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

From her portrayal of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to her concert performances, Judy Garland's fans never deserted her. Between the child star and the burnt-out singer lay years of mismanagement, misaliances and misuse.

Projections 8 - Film-makers on Film-making by John Boorman (ed.); Walter Donohue (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Projections 1 - A Forum for Film-Makers by John Boorman (ed.); Walter Donohue (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Projections is a forum for practitioners of the cinema to write about their work. The first issue includes a journal compiled by John Boorman which records his responses to the events and trends of 1991, and their implications for the future of cinema. Like his Emerald Forest diary, Money into Light, it is a fascinating mix of anecdote, personal reflections, thoughts on the nature of cinema, and comments on the practical business of making films. Projections also contains contributions from cinematographer Nestor Almendros, who describes the craft of photographing the human face, and from Jonathan Demme, who traces the evolution of his career from his early days with Roger Corman to his chilling Silence of the Lambs. River Phoenix and Gus Van Sant discuss their work together on My Own Private Idaho; there is a script from one of the most original talents in American today, Hal Hartley, and a penetrating account by director Michael Mann of his startling new version of Last of the Mohicans. ...Show more

Projections 3 - Film-makers on Film-making by John Boorman (Editor); Walter Donohue (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. The centrepiece of this issue is the journals of Francis Ford Coppola, whose films, such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, are considered masterworks of contemporary cinema. This volume also c ontains articles by leading film-makers about the state of the art at this moment. Included in this volume: Francis Ford Coppola - Journals 1989-1993 Chen Kaige on Chinese Cinema Sydney Pollack on Directing Actors Allan Starski - Art Direction: Wajda to Spielberg Hal Willner - Making Music for Short Cuts Michael Almereyda on Pixelvision Kasdan on Kasdan Michael Tolkin on Screenwriting Art Linson on Producing Quentin Tarantino - The Director as Writer Sally Potter - Orlando Diary Gus Van Sant on Hollywood Richard Stanley - Dust Devil Diary Hal Hartley - Flirt Zrinko Ogresta - Cry from Croatia. ...Show more