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Goodbye, Dragon Inn by Nick Pinkerton
$21.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Is cinema really dead? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton takes a deep dive into Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and porten ...Show more
Inland Empire by Melissa Anderson
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Category: Film & TV
Few actors of her generation are as eclectic, thrilling and fearless as Laura Dern. In this seductive study, Melissa Anderson discusses Dern’s dazzling body of work, focusing on herauthorial stamp on Inland Empire – a movie in which her phenomenal performance shatters every scene – and her enduring and ...Show more
Ten Skies by Erika Balsom
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Category: Film & TV
Benning’s landscape film TEN SKIES (2004) becomes an ecstatic launchpad to survey artistic representations of the sky. Looking up, Balsom’s lyrical and idiosyncratic text drifts through the skyscape of historical and contemporary filmmaking, approaching the sky as an archive that offers tantalising clue ...Show more
The Mysteries of Cinema - Movies and Imagination by Peter Conrad
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Ranging from the latenineteenth century to thepresent day, this exhilaratingsurvey by cultural critic PeterConrad explores the ways filmhas changed how we seethe world. This is a thematic roller-coaster ride through cinema history, with film expert Peter Conrad in the seat beside you. Thoroughly interna ...Show more
The Exorcist (BFI Film Classics) by Mark Kermode
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praised as 'deeply spiritual' by some sections of the Catholic Church while being picketed by the Festival of Light and branded 'Sata ...Show more
The Matrix by Joshua Clover
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Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters and produced by Joel Silver, was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American zeitgeist, and, as the original film in a blockbusting franchise, a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood film-making. Starring Keanu Reeves a ...Show more
Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval
$39.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-so world of his films, presented with fascinating human stories behind each façade. Accidentally Wes Anderson began as a personal tra ...Show more
Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
$22.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
A message from the Captain: 'On behalf of myself and the entire Ayoade team, welcome to Ayoade on Top. At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin-crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.' Buckle up for the flight of your life. 'The most profoundly silly book ...Show more
The Story of Film by Mark Cousins
$59.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
A fully revised, updated and expanded edition of the seminal text on film A new edition of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, which is now updated with extra chapters. The Story of Film explores cinema from around the world and shows how cinematic ideas and techn ...Show more
Feeding Hannibal: a Connoisseur's Cookbook by Janice Poon
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook is a collection of easy-to-follow recipes inspired by the show and created by its food stylist, Janice Poon. Each recipe is accompanied by fascinating insider's anecdotes, delightful artwork and revealing behind-the-scenes photos of stars and crew on the set of ...Show more
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the p ...Show more
Hollywood Wants to Kill You - The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks; Rick Edwards
$22.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
The hilarious new popular science book from the bestselling authors of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Science(ish).