
“A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same… This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.”
Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark ...read more

This book gives us a panoramic view of Zeffirelli’s unique life. It gives us a vision of what was Italy during the WWII and what is the world of creating theater, operas and movies. Zeffirelli does not succumb to the temptation of ...read more

One is prone to oblivion and in the course of time the technique of forgetting turns into a crucial human capacity.
That is how the great Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s autobiography begins. Seventeen chapters of ...read more

Georgi Daneliya tells funny behind the scenes stories as well as true stories from ...read more

He’s won the Oscar, the Palme d’Or and the German Film Prize. Volker Schlöndorff is one of Germany’s most successful directors. Schlöndorff published his autobiography, shortly before his 70th ...read more

The book Cinema and the Rest of the World is a reflection upon Wajda's life as well as an attempt at understanding its connections with the artist’s work. Written just before he received the Academy Award, it chronicles the making of his most ...read more

This is a book based on the film under the same title with Mastroianni starring in. These are notes of his voice recorded.
Mastroianni is not so much a subject as a host in the tour of his life, regaling the audience with anecdotes and ...read more

In “My Last Sigh” (1982) Luis Buñuel describes his life and work, his doubts and searches, his favorite places and beverages, his passions and phobias. Also, with surprising candor and wit, Buñuel exposes his, sometimes mordant, ...read more

The journalist Grobel, who literally wrote the book on interviewing (The Art of the Interview), puts his talent on full display in this compilation of interviews conducted with Al Pacino over 25 years, giving the reader as much insight into ...read more

Here, in a Q&A format -- a nod to Truffaut's unforgettable Hitchcock -- Billy Wilder, Hollywood's legendary writer-director, talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about screenwriting and camera work, set design and ...read more

Charles Chaplin was born in London in 1889 to actor parents. His career in films started in 1914 with a string of single-reelers for Keystone Comedy Film Company. Success was immediate, and nine years later, to get better terms, he helped form ...read more

“The low truths. Seven years later” is implemented with detailed comments new edition of the well-known book (“The low truths”) that is the first from the trilogy, on which the author is still working on. ...read more

"Mes étoiles" is an autobiographical book of the famous Italian asctress Claudia Cardinale. It is about her personal and professional relationships with many of her directors and co-stars through her nearly 50 years in show-business.
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This lusty, high spirited book came out of conversations, conducted over the course of fourteen years, between Frederico Fellini, the reknowned director of of such landmark films as "8 1/2", and "La Dolce Vita", and the author Charlotte Chandler. ...read more