Christopher Kenworthy

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. By using powerful master shots and well-executed moves, directors can develop a strong style and stand out from the crowd. Most low-budget movies look low-budget, because the director is forced to compromise at the last minute. Master Shots gives you so many powerful techniques that you'll be able to respond, even under pressure, and create knock-out shots. Even when the clock is ticking and the light is fading, the techniques in this book can rescue your film, and make every shot look like it cost a fortune.
    Each technique is illustrated with samples from great feature films and computer-generated diagrams for absolute clarity.
 

Master Shots

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Peter Cowie

Martin Scorsese

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Diary of a Day

The result is a unique document that is arguably the most complete look at the international film industry ever assembled, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the sometimes glamorous, oftentimes arduous, always fascinating process of filmmaking.

World Cinema

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Bridget Morrissey

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Indiana

A BuzzFeed Best Book of June A heart-stirring, tear-inducing read you won't want to put down."--Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read Acting like she's in love with her handsome nightmare of a co-star--in a movie directed and produced by her complicated Hollywood royalty family--is Sloane's job. But what happens when the lines between script and reality get blurred? Out-of-work actress Sloane Ford is in desperate need of something to do after losing her steady TV gig. When her famous family ropes her into working as a producer on their World War II-era romance, they neglect to mention that the film will be headlined by Joseph Donovan, her least favorite former co-star of all time. The roguish actor made her life a living hell the last time they worked together, using his movie star good looks and Irish charm to cover for his erratic professional behavior. On their new film set, he promises he's different now, but Sloane is far from convinced. As filming gets underway, it becomes clear that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. When the lead actress is abruptly fired, Sloane agrees to step in and take over the role, and she starts to remember why she fell in love with acting in the first place. On camera, she and Joseph share an electric chemistry. Off camera, they've been honing their characters and, much to Sloane's surprise, growing closer. But playing the role of a woman in love with Joseph Donovan is a dangerous business, and the more time they spend together, the less Sloane can tell what's real between them, and what's just for show.

Love Scenes

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Mimi Kasbah

New Hampshire

Dirty Dancing How to Do It

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#hardcover #entertainment #music #movies #art #coffeetablebook

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Texas

Twelve All-Time Great Entertainers

Call Them Irreplaceable

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Michael Crichton

Some handwriting on onside cover, otherwise good condition 

Four American scientists are summoned in great secrecy to the South Pacific to investigate a giant spacecraft at least three hundred years old

Sphere

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William K. Everson

1964, 318 pages, profusely illustrated, large format trade pbk in Excellent condition. 
If you’re a movie fan, you’ll LOVE this one!
I ship carefully and quickly!

Oregon

A Pictorial History of the Movie Villain

Bad Guys

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Peter Korte

Georg Seesslen

Rory Mulholland

From 1999, this 315 pg book takes the reader from Blood Simple in 1984 through O, Brother Where Art Thou in 1988.

This is an imperative read for fans of the Coen Brothers, and the book is in clean, superb condition.

(Limelight). An analysis of the Coen oeuvre through O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). The authors, German film critics, include a previously unpublished interview with the filmmaking brothers on their off-center work in genres they both satirize and pay tribute to: film noir, horror, screwball comedy, and buddy escapade. As Ethan Coen says: "We grew up in America, and we tell American stories in American settings within American frames of reference. Perhaps our way of reflecting our system is more comprehensible to non-Americans because they already see the system as something alien." Well illustrated.

Joel and Ethan Coen

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Never read. Was a gift and has been sitting on the shelf. Amazing condition. 

His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking

Conversations with Woody Allen

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Tom Hanks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A Novel

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

"Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." --Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive

Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years.

Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. 

Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.

Cue the cast: We meet the film's extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera.

Bonus material: Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the story--all created by Tom Hanks himself--including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel's "major motion picture masterpiece."

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

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Julian Fox

Movies from Manhattan

Other books have been written about Woody Allen; none has yet managed fully to interpret him. This is the task Julian Fox sets for himself and succeeds at resoundingly, writing eruditely about all the films, and setting forth the broad influences of the Woody Allen style - everything from Chekhov to Bergman to Martha Graham. He traces Woody Allen's idiosyncratic progress from the early anarchic satires like What's Up Tiger Lily and Casino Royale to the astounding run of hits in the 70s and 80s - Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors - through the 90s and such diverse projects such as Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite, revealing what make Woody Allen - hip, urban, neurotic successor to Chapman, Keaton and the Marx Brothers - our most exciting and original filmmaker.

Woody

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#paperback #alist #topten #films #movies #Nationalsocietyoffilmcritics #bestof #nonfiction 

The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films

People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays -- most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee -- name organization embracing some of America's most distinguished critics: more than forty writers who have national followings as well as devoted local constituencies in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. But make no mistake about it: This isn't a collection of esoteric "critic's choice" movies. The Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society. Some of the choices are controversial. So are some of the omissions. It will be a jumping-off point for discussions for years to come. And since the volume spans all international films from the very beginning, it will act as a balance to recent guides dominated by films of the last two decades (hardly film's golden age). Here is a book that is definitely ready for its close-up.

A List

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Crown

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

The Complete History of Over 50 Roaring Years

The MGM Story

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Compiled quotes and advice from our most beloved and admired filmmakers

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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The Filmmaker Says

Virginia

The Films of Frank Sinatra

Small bend to bottom front edge of front covers, otherwise spine is tight, text is clean, very good condition.

Wisconsin

Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Oraon Welles

My Lunches With Orson

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#paperback #twilight #stephaniemeyers #eclipse #RobertPattinson #kristenstewart #movies #series Does NOT include posters

Does NOT include posters

LOT of 2/ Sexy Stars of Eclipse & Sexy Stars of Twilight

Massachusetts

Michael Gurian

Not in the best condition but is definitely readable and the pages are clean. It’s a useful media guide for parents of boys. It’s has lists and descriptions of 100 books and 100 movies.

Minnesota

A Guide to Books and Movies That Build Character in Boys

In an annotated list including movies such as High Noon and Glory, and books such as The Giving Tree and To Kill a Mockingbird, therapist and educator Gurian highlights the particular ethical lessons two hundred great stories can impart to boys and young men.

What Stories Does My Son Need?

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#nancydrew #middlegrade #movies #juvenilefiction #fiction #chapterbooks #2000s #paperback 

Nancy Drew, the cleverest sleuth in River Heights, is always on thecase -- no matter how dangerous it may be! Now Nancy's taking her sleuthingto a whole new level as she accompanies her father to Los Angeles,though her dad thinks she's renounced sleuthing forever. Afterdiscovering a long-unsolved crime involving the death of a beautifulmovie star, Nancy vows to uncover the mystery. With a little help fromsome new friends, Nancy is well on her way to cracking this case. But isNancy in over her head in the fast-paced world of Hollywood?

Nancy Drew

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Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating animal named Okja. This is the official art book to celebrate the beautiful new movie from director Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) and Netflix. Featuring exclusive interviews with the director, Tilda Swinton, and key crew members, combined with concept artwork, candid set photography, and VFX material detailing the production process, this is a one of a kind book for a one of a kind movie.

The Art of Okja

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The Life and Times of W. C. Fields

Man on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades -- and the only accurate one -- of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren). "One of the best movie biographies to come along in quite some time. . . . [A] book to cherish."--Film Review "[Man on the Flying Trapeze] nicely regales us with many vaudevillian stories. . . . Louvish does a heroic job."--Katharine Whittemore, New York Times Book Review "A rapturous, giddy, and irrepressible book. . . . Let us be clear: this is a delight, a marvel of research . . . and a superb argument for the case that William Claude Dukenfield was, and is, the greatest comic the movies have given us."--David Thomson "At last 'the Great Man' (as Fields called himself, accurately) has a great biography."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Man on the Flying Trapeze

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David Lewman

Mississippi

This paperback junior novelization retells the exciting story of Illumination's Sing 2--in theaters December 2021!

Get ready to hit the big time! In Illumination's Sing 2, can-do koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of animal performers--including harried mother pig Rosita, rocker porcupine Ash, earnest gorilla Johnny, and more--have turned the New Moon Theater into a local hit, but Buster has his eyes on a bigger prize: to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet in glamorous Redshore City, the glittering entertainment capital of the world. All the laughs, lights, and letdowns of the sequel film are retold in this digest junior novelization that's perfect for girls and boys ages 6 to 9. It includes a full-color insert full of bonus movie content!

Sing 2: the Junior Novelization (Illumination's Sing 2)

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Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film. RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH - Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON - The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star. HOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE

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