Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre directors. He started his career as Sergio Leone's assistant on For a Few Dollars More before moving on...

Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Greatest Men of the Century, Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Par...

Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was l...

Budd Boetticher (1916-2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who could--with the right material and driv...

The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime st...

Engineering Hollywood tells the story of the formation of the Hollywood studio system not as the product of a genius producer, but as an industry t...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom StoppardA revelation.Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wild...

Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters, America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his favourite personalit...

Dominick Dunne seemed to live his entire adult life in the public eye, but in this biography Robert Hofler reveals a conflicted, enigmatic man who ...

Ewa-Mari Johansson's personal research should be interpreted as a general work-in-progress. It is endowed with a sort of internal coherence that ap...

Following on the heels of his successful film Black Swan, celebrated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky turns his talent to the epic big-budget biblical tr...

The Films of Elias Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain's most important producer. Throu...

Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The Royal...

The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities-from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fo...

A fresh account of the career of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century Through his amazing variety of innovative images, phot...

The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman''s career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had...

The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman''s career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had...

'If you are hungry for truth and beauty, read this book' Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times'A demonstration of a will to live that is breathtaking ... a...

Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dis...

Ingmar Bergman''s film Persona (1966) is considered both one of his greatest masterpieces and his most enigmatic and abstract film. The highly infl...

Once a favorite of mainly art house audiences, Hayao Miyazaki's films have enjoyed increasing exposure in the West since his Spirited Away won the ...

Barbara Hammer (b. 1939) is an American feminist artist known as a pioneer of queer experimental and documentary film. In October 2017, Leslie Lo...

Martin Scorsese in Ten Scenes takes an intriguing look at the life''s work of one of the world''s greatest filmmakers. Boiling down the Oscar-winne...

The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of ...

Federico Fellini''''s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/6), is published here f...

Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephan...

Learn about the visual and performing arts in The Movie Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes i...

This second volume of Alfred Hitchcock''s reflections on his life and work and the art of cinema contains material long out of print, not easily ac...

A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all timeBruce Lee.Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dra...

Istvan Szabo is one of Hungary''s most celebrated and best-known film directors, and the only Hungarian to have won an Academy Award for Best Forei...