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Series
Criterion collection volume 477
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A candid interview with the reclusive director at his home on Faro Island, as he discusses his fears, regrets, films, and passion for his work.
43) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000, c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 585
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (27 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left-a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn-have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"For more than three decades, Woody Allen has been talking regularly and candidly with Eric Lax, and has given him singular and unfettered access to his film sets, his editing room, and his thoughts and observations. In discussions that begin in 1971 and continue into 2007, Allen discusses every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own films and the work of directors he admires. In doing so, he reveals an artist's development over the course...
48) The starter wife
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When her Hollywood studio head husband unexpectedly divorces her to marry a pop starlet, Gracie seeks refuge at a friend's Malibu mansion, witnesses the impact of the divorce on her young daughter, and interacts with a series of dysfunctional men.
52) Mia madre
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
53) Pain and glory
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pain and Glory tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvator Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity; his first desire. His first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, and the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense. Mallo...
54) No bears
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Celebrate and honor some of the most visionary movies ever created, including American Graffiti; the Indiana Jones series; the Star Wars series; and many more. Features interviews with the creators of these masterpieces, as well as other film greats!
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Film and television director and notable raconteur Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir, tracing his idiosyncratic upbringing in Washington Heights, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black, and beloved work like Get Shorty and A Series of Unfortunate Events"--
58) 42nd Street
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Broadway musical director has troubles during rehearsal, promotes the understudy and has a successful opening night. Chiefly memorable for the incredible musical numbers.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Take one look at Kevin Smith: He's a balding fatty who wears a hockey jersey, shorts and slippers year-round. Not a likely source for life advice. But take a second look: He changed filmmaking forever when he was 24 with the release of Clerks, and since then has gone on to make nine more profitable movies, runs his own production company, wrote a bestselling graphic novel, and has a beautiful wife and kids. So he must be doing something right. As...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"A fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work, and lasting influence of the twentieth century's most iconic filmmaker. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work: "The Boy Who...
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