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A Life in Movies
Irwin Winkler

A Life in Movies

The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-50-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, and Creed. His films have been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, including five movies for Best
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Essays, Articles, Lectures
Ingmar Bergman

Essays, Articles, Lectures

Swedish director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) worked for the theater for over 60 years, during which he staged 172 plays. He was director of theaters in Helsingborg, Gothenburg, Malmö, the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm and the
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Chasing the Light
Oliver Stone
★★★★★

Chasing the Light

An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Ex
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Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Michael Caine

Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

Now in his 85th year, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable career in this "engrossing" memoir that "shines with positive energy". One of our best-loved actors, Michael Caine has starred in over 100 films in
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A Life for the Cinema
Jean-Jacques Annaud

A Life for the Cinema

Great works of art are often born of great dreams. Only 9 years old, Jean-Jacques Annaud told his mother that he would be a film director and nothing else. The goal had been achieved long ago, and some of this resolute child's films s
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Room To Dream
David Lynch

Room To Dream

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he
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Al Pacino
Al Pacino

Al Pacino

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
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Sculpting in Time
Andrei Tarkovsky

Sculpting in Time

Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema — hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most important director of our time" — died an exile in Paris in December 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a rema
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A thousand lives are worth more than one
Jean-Paul Belmondo

A thousand lives are worth more than one

Jean-Paul Belmondo, the legend of French cinema, breaks the silence and his usual discretion, and decides to talk about himself. Reading his memories - starting with the childhood marked by war, school misadventures, the difficult first steps of h
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Laterna Magica
Ingmar Bergman

Laterna Magica

Ingmar Bergman, creator of such films as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander turns his perceptive filmmaker's eye on himself for a revealing portrait of his life and obsessions. 
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Changing
Liv Ullmann

Changing

This is a reflective autobiography by one of the world's most famous actresses. In this book Liv Ullman tells about her Norwegian childhood and her present life as 'star of stage and screen'. Her relationship with the father of her c
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The Virgin Prostitute
Nikolay Volev

The Virgin Prostitute

In his autobiography "The Virgin Prostitute", Nikolay Volev describes the vicissitudes of his life with remorseless honesty. He also tells about his first and later love affections. Among the adventures he experienced, were the pseudo-cooperati
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Roman by Polanski
Roman Polanski

Roman by Polanski

Roman Polanski reveals in details his life - rich and full of experiences as a novel. He talks about his childhood in the Nazi-occupied Poland, his years of education at the Lodz Film School in the 1950s, his first years in Par
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Director's cut
Ted Kotcheff

Director's cut

Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at the then-new Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Discovering his skills with acto
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My Magnificent Obsession
Bernardo Bertolucci
★★★★★

My Magnificent Obsession

Bernardo Bertolucci called My Magnificent Obsession "the book that I didn't know that I wrote." Collected here are forty years of thoughts, memories and articles of one of the most influential filmmakers of our time. Although the
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Capricious Summer
Jirí Menzel

Capricious Summer

Jiri Menzel describes his childhood and the cultural environment in Prague; his studies at FAMU and the reasons he devoted himself to cinema, though his first love was theater; the realization of his most famous films such as Closely Watched&n
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A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
Werner Herzog

A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin

This edition of Herzog on Herzog presents a completely new set of interviews in which Werner Herzog discusses his career from its very beginnings to his most recent productions.  Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most import
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Conversations with Scorsese
Richard Schickel

Conversations with Scorsese

Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, The Departed, The Aviator, Shutter Island: these are just afew of the critically acclaimed films, startling experimental works, and spectacular comme
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The Territory of My Love
Nikita Mikhalkov

The Territory of My Love

"Cinema is my life" - says Nikita Mikhalkov in his book "The Territory of My Love". Written by the famous director, actor and producer, this book is a bright example of autobiographical prose. Here Mikhalkov's personal life and creativ
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Then Again
Diane Keaton

Then Again

Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged
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In the Clinch
Fatih Akin

In the Clinch

"In the Clinch" is the fascinating biography of Fatih Akin, the German-Turkish director of "The Edge of Heaven", which won the best screen play award at Cannes. This book reveals Akin through his own words - authentic, unfeigned, direc
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Michelangelo Antonioni

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

“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 land
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Autobiography
Franco Zeffirelli

Autobiography

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 temptat
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Death Is an Unverified Rumour
Emir Kusturica

Death Is an Unverified Rumour

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 sevente
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A Traveler without a Ticket
Georgi Daneliya

A Traveler without a Ticket

Georgi Daneliya tells funny behind the scenes stories as well as true stories from life.
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Light, Shadow and Movement
Volker Schlöndorff

Light, Shadow and Movement

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 birthday.
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Cinema and the Rest of the World. Double Vision
Andrzej Wajda

Cinema and the Rest of the World. Double Vision

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
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I Remember
Marcello Mastroianni

I Remember

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 pondering hi
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My Last Sigh
Luis Buñuel

My Last Sigh

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 m
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I don’t make cinema, I make movies.
Billy Wilder

I don’t make cinema, I make movies.

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
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My Autobiography
Charlie Chaplin

My Autobiography

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 f
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The Low Truths
Andrei Konchalovsky

The Low Truths

“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.
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Mes étoiles
Claudia Cardinale

Mes étoiles

"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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I, Fellini
Federico Fellini

I, Fellini

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 Chandl
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A Sense of Place
Wim Wenders

A Sense of Place

The remarkble essey-like writing style of Wim Wenders reveals his passion to traveling and photography. He shares his hopes and expectations of the new digital technologies that make their way in the movie-making - from the change of the
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Songs My Mother Taught Me
Marlon Brando

Songs My Mother Taught Me

When Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, bemoaned the fact that he "coulda been somebody," audiences hung onto his words, but according to Brando, the role "was actor-proof, a scene that demonstrated how audiences ofte
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Vivant!
Gérard Depardieu

Vivant!

Gérard Depardieu is not only the most famous and adored actor in France but also a symbol of the country. That energetic and masculine man loved by many viewers around the globe has been an enigma ever since his first book "Vivant
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Hitchcock
François Truffaut

Hitchcock

This book is a classic study of the great director and his films, comprising a series of dialogues between Hitchcock and Truffaut. Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume’s interlocutor
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I Like Violent Films
Quentin Tarantino

I Like Violent Films

Quentin Tarantino is one of the few directors who deservedly turned into a sensation with his first movie. "Reservoir Dogs" ruffled some feathers not only the audience but also among critics and filmmakers, and became a really cult fil
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Steven Spielberg: Interviews
Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg: Interviews

Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like “phone home” and the music score from “Jaws” are now part of our cultural script, appearing in commercials, comedy ro
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Time to Die
Krzysztof Zanussi

Time to Die

“Time to Die” is an intriguing certificate about dilemmas of the artists during the years of totalitarianism – the problems that may seem strange to the newer generations, but will certainly touch everyone who has ever faced
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Elevating Deception
Andrei Konchalovsky

Elevating Deception

This is the sequel to “Low truths” by Andrey Konchalovsky. The book traces more closely his professional carrier in the Russian cinema, in Hollywood and also his work as a theater and opera director. “I love myself. To be
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The Low Truths
Andrei Konchalovsky

The Low Truths

The first book of scandalous confessions by the Russian film director Andrey Konchalovsky, “Low truths” is much more than just curios. On its pages the great film-maker reveals his exciting memories from the childhood in his renowned fa
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen
Stig Björkman

Woody Allen on Woody Allen

Over the course of his long directing career, Woody Allen has portrayed contemporary American life with an unmistakable mixture of irony, neurotic obsession, and humor. “Woody Allen on Woody Allen” is a unique self-portrait of thi
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The Anarchy of the Imagination
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Anarchy of the Imagination

Why does Germany simultaneously hate and worship Fassbinder? Why did he dream of America while the all European cinema world was in his feet? The right answers to these questions you can find in the book - “The Anarchy of the Imaginatio
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The Invisible Film
Jean-Claude Carriere

The Invisible Film

“The good screenplay is that one from which can be born a good film. When the film exists, the screenplay is already gone.” These are the words of one of the greatest screenplay writers - Frenchman Jean-Claude Carriere.
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Scorsese on Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Scorsese on Scorsese

Faithful to its title, this book offers Martin Scorsese in his own words: through a career-length interview in which he recalls his upbringing in New York’s Little Italy, and explains the inspiration and creation of his many great movies. The
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Pedro Almodóvar. The Cinema of Desires
Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar. The Cinema of Desires

In the conversations, published in this book, Pedro Almodóvar openly tells stories about his life, his creative process and his films.

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