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A collection of essays in which Wim Wenders presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped and inspired him.

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Harry Lime's return from the dead in "The Third Man" (1949), Carol Reed's unique thriller set in occupied Vienna, is one of the most famous scenes in all cinema. After "The Third Man", Carol Reed was hailed as one of the world's great directors.

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From the creator of Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell To Earth comes a new and exciting digital project.

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Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking, melding the exotic, the horrific and the comic, and manipulating expressionism and fantasy with the skill of a graphic novelist. This book considers Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker. It narrates the evolution of his creative practices, and presents works from his personal archive.

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This is the first full-length monograph in English on one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, whose originality lies in his subtle exploration of sexuality and national identity -- .

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The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. This book offers a comprehensive account of Tarkovsky's entire film output. It examines Tarkovsky's films elementally, grouping them into four sections: Water, Fire, Earth, and Air.

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"A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema, Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and global moving image art. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai's films, drawing on extensive interviews with the director while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsai's body of work"--

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Salvador Dali is one of the most widely recognised and controversial artists of the twentieth century. He was also an avant-garde filmmaker, collaborating with Luis Bunuel, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock. This book gives Dali's fascination with film, the attention it merits, surveying Dali's activities with cinema.

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The stylistic and bloody excesses of the films of Dario Argento are instantly recognisable. Vivid, baroque and nightmarish, his films lock violent deaths in a twisted embrace with an almost sexual beauty. Narrative and logic are often lost in a constant bombardment of atmosphere, technical mastery and provocative imagery. It's a body of...

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David Lynch is America's premiere purveyor of the surreal, an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalised view of society. This book examines the themes, motifs and stories behind his works, from the cult surrealism of his debut feature "Eraserhead" to his other mystery, "Inland Empire".

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Explores the history of a documentary filmmaker - from cinema verite to the inserted narrator, from the "quiet" filmmaking of David Wiseman and Frederick Maysles to interactive documentaries, from the "balanced" point of view to the charismatic commentator, ala Fahrenheit 9/11. This title includes interviews with Michael Moore and Errol Morris.

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Artist and writer Steve Reinke is best known for his video work. This titles features videos that comprises of original and found footage (from home movies, training films, and porn flicks), that are typically diaristic, often philosophical, and even elegaic. It contains Reinke's scripts from 1996 onwards, along with illustrative stills.

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In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended family- including his mother, a string of male lovers, lovelorn women, and even a pair.

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Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers. However, he is just as gifted a writer, and his resolutely purple prose, as eccentric and enchanting as his film work, is a true delight. This book features Maddin's feverish musings on hockey, the Osmonds, divas of the Italian silent cinema, and Bollywood.

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The fullest study of Georges Franju to date, and the first book on him in English since 1967 -- .

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