The View from the Bridge: Memories of...
Nicholas MeyerThe critically acclaimed director and writer shares his account of the making of the three classic Star Trek filmsThe View from the Bridge is Nicholas Meyer's enormously entertaining account of his involvement with the Star Trek films...
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
David ThomsonA New York Times Notable Book of the Year'Easily the best book on Orson Welles.' --The New YorkerOrson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years flo...
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of...
Mark Cotta VazExplorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer Merian C. Cooper–the adventurer who created King Kong–was truly larger than life. "Pictures cannot be made from an executive's desk," "Coop" declared, and he di...
Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Yea...
Robert RodriguezIn Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's rem...
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Ba...
John WatersTo me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story it is. Opening with his uringing in Balti...
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefe...
Steven BachLeni Riefenstahl, the woman known as "Hitler's filmmaker," made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach r...
Noted publicly for such films as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining, among others, privately Stanley Kubrick lives in seclusion. Now biographer John Baxter breaks through the mystique to reveal...
Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era, and in this lavishly-praised biography, the author of Lindbergh and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius offers a life story as rich with drama as anything found on the silver screen...
Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello America...
Simon CallowThe first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly entertaining, definitive work" by Entertainment Weekly. Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the years fol...
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollyw...
Roger CormanIn these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven...
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections ...
Werner HerzogA vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a lar...
Skywalking: The Life And Films Of Geo...
Dale PollockFilled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, this only full-length biography of filmmaker and cinematic visionary Georg...
Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcoc...
Donald Spoto"The trouble today is that we don't torture women enough."—Alfred HitchcockIt is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the beautiful, legendary and talented actre...