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1) NYPD red
Author
Series
NYPD red mystery volume 1
Publisher
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Language
English
Description
Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called....
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Presenting a dazzling selection of writings from a century of film, including pieces by or about Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, James Dean, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Gore Vidal, Charlie Chaplin, Terry McMillan, Tom Wolfe, Pauline Kael, Woody Allen, Akira Kurosawa, Raymond Chandler, Quentin Tarantino, W.C. Fields, S.J. Perelman, Andy Warhol, Nathanael West, John Wayne, Julia Phillips, Groucho Marx, Larry McMurtry, Franc̦ois...
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"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"--Amazon.com.
6) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
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English
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A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
8) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
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English
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Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each other's...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synedoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts - mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms. Art History for Filmmakers is an inspiring guide to how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period...
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English
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"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The term "cult film" is difficult to define, but one thing is certain: A cult film is any movie that has developed a rabid following for one reason or another. From highly influential works of pop art like Eraserhead and Faster,Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to trash masterpieces such as Miami Connection and Fateful Findings, thousands of movies have earned recognition as cult classics over the years, and new movies rise to cult status every year. So how do...
19) La Strada
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
This academy award-winning film tells of the slow-witted innocent who falls for an abusive circus strongman.
Author
Series
Modern filmmakers
Introduction violently original Murder most simple Blood simple Babies bikers and buffoons Raising Arizona The professional kill Miller's crossing Life of the imaginary mind Barton Fink Reinventing the circle of suicide The Hudsucker proxy What's the deal with greed and wood chippers? Fargo Abiding by Chandler The big Lebowski Three convicts and the KKK O brother where art thou? Cutting Cain's law The man who wasn't there Cruel intentions Intolerable cruelty The killing joke The ladykillers The unrelenting country No country for old men Burning paranoia Burn after reading
Introduction violently original Murder most simple Blood simple Babies bikers and buffoons Raising Arizona The professional kill Miller's crossing Life of the imaginary mind Barton Fink Reinventing the circle of suicide The Hudsucker proxy What's the deal with greed and wood chippers? Fargo Abiding by Chandler The big Lebowski Three convicts and the KKK O brother where art thou? Cutting Cain's law The man who wasn't there Cruel intentions Intolerable cruelty The killing joke The ladykillers The unrelenting country No country for old men Burning paranoia Burn after reading
Publisher
Praeger
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Language
English
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"The Brothers Coen: Unique Characters of Violence spans the career of the two-time Oscar-winning producer/director team, exploring the theme of violence that runs through a genre-spanning body of work, from the neo-noir of Blood Simple to the brutal comedy Burn After Reading. In chapters focusing on major characters, author Ryan Doom looks at the chaotic cinematic universe of the Coens, where violent acts inevitably have devastating, unintended consequences."...
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