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En el 75 aniversario del film;Río Rojo, de Howard Hawks, el libro analiza los diferentes aspectos de la película: El rodaje, el director, los actores, la leyenda... Todo ello acompañado por un gran d

Hace ya varias décadas que ˜El acorazadoPotemkin dejó de ocupar la cabeza de laclasificación de las diez mejores películas dela historia del cine, por lo menos en los refer éndums periódicos de los

El cine al aire libre es una de esas actividades con la que es fácil cruzarse todos los veranos en algún pueblo, e incluso en grandes urbes. Las frescas noches de verano son la excusa perfecta para el cine a la luz de la luna. ¿De donde surge esta aficion por poner una pantalla en medio de una plaza y compartir la experiencia con amigos y vecinos? ¿Como se articula una proyeccion de cine de verano? ¿Cuales son los problemas a los que se enfrenta un equipo profesional de cine ambulante? En este libro, parcialmente autobiografico, trato de dar respuesta a todas estas cuestiones contando una historia del cine hasta hoy desconocida.

An in depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing chi one of Hong Kong cinema s most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors In the West Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as Kung Fu Hustle 2004 and Shaolin Soccer 2001 Among Hong Kong audiences Chow is celebrated as the leading purveyor of local comedy popularising the so called mo lei tau gibberish brand of Cantonese vernacular humour and cultivating a style of madcap comedy that often masks a trenchant social commentary This volume approaches Chow from a diverse range of critical perspectives Each of the essays written by a host of renowned international scholars offers compelling new interpretations of familiar hits such as From Beijing with Love 1994 and Journey to the West 2013 The detailed case studies of seminal local and global movies provide overdue critical attention to Chow s filmmaking highlighting the aesthetic power economic significance and cultural impact of his films in both domestic and global markets

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective that of various mavericks visionaries and outsiders who often against considerable odds have become successful producers distributors writers directors editors props masters publicists special effects technicians talent scouts stars and sometimes even moguls Some such as Richard Attenborough and David Puttnam are well known names Others such as the screenwriter and editor Alma Reville also known as Mrs Alfred Hitchcock Constance Smith the lost star of British cinema or the producer Betty Box and her director sister Muriel are far less well known What they all have in common though is that they found their own pathways into the British film business overcoming barriers of nationality race class and gender to do so Counterpointing the essays on historical figures are interviews with contemporaries including the director Amma Asante the writer and filmmaker Julian Fellowes artist and director Isaac Julien novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and media entrepreneur Efe Cakarel founder of the online film platform MUBI who ve come into today s industry adjusting to an era in which production and releasing models are

Michael Allen s insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford from his early work in theatre and TV to his contemporary status as an iconic and enduring star Allen assesses Redford s importance to the American film industry during a period of great transformation as an influential industry player an award winning director and a committed political activist Allen considers Redford s individual achievements in the context of shifts and changes in the industry as a whole some of which benefited Redford s own progress and development some which he engineered himself as well as discussing Redford s star persona in relation to ageing and masculinity

This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid has fascinated cinéastes for years Kathryn Hughes Sunday Times Illuminating and thrilling The Spectator Absorbing forensic and jaw dropping Total Film In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world s first motion picture in Leeds England In 1890 weeks before the planned public unveiling of his camera and projector Le Prince boarded a train in France and disappeared without a trace His body was never found In 1891 Thomas Edison inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph announced that he had developed a motion picture camera Le Prince s family convinced that Edison had stolen Louis s work proceeded to sue the most famous inventor in the world The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures excavates one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Victorian age and offers a revelatory rewriting of the birth of modern pictures

A rare intimate portrait of Hollywood s reigning blockbuster auteur whose deeply personal billion dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock Updated with a chapter on Oppenheimer A masterclass brilliant Immersive detailed meticulous privileged inside dope Craig Raine More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker Christopher Nolan s films have an unerring grasp of the way time makes us feel Time steals people away in his films and he takes careful note of the theft Time is Nolan s great antagonist his lifelong nemesis He seems almost to take it personally Written with the full cooperation of Nolan himself who granted Tom Shone access to never before seen photographs storyboards and sketches the book is a deep dive into the director s films influences methods and obsessions Here for the first time is Nolan on his dislocated transatlantic childhood how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm at school his colour blindness and its effect on Memento his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions and much much more Written by one of our most penetrating critics The Nolan Variations is a landmark study of one of the tw

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective that of various mavericks visionaries and outsiders who often against considerable odds have become successful producers distributors writers directors editors props masters publicists special effects technicians talent scouts stars and sometimes even moguls Some such as Richard Attenborough and David Puttnam are well known names Others such as the screenwriter and editor Alma Reville also known as Mrs Alfred Hitchcock Constance Smith the lost star of British cinema or the producer Betty Box and her director sister Muriel are far less well known What they all have in common though is that they found their own pathways into the British film business overcoming barriers of nationality race class and gender to do so Counterpointing the essays on historical figures are interviews with contemporaries including the director Amma Asante the writer and filmmaker Julian Fellowes artist and director Isaac Julien novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and media entrepreneur Efe Cakarel founder of the online film platform MUBI who ve come into today s industry adjusting to an era in which production and releasing models are

Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical racism Everyone watches TV and movies Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life In Screen Deep Ellen E Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing to ask and answer several questions Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western Is race comedy cancelled Where are all the films for white people And most importantly Can you still fight the good fight with a mouthful of popcorn

The story of two extraordinary filmmaking generations father and daughter Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola

The Complete Saga from Mad Max to Furiosa

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola s oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic social and cultural currents Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion in its various manifestations to Coppola s films exploring fashion s primacy in every cinematic dimension in film narrative production costume and sound design cinematography marketing distribution and auteur branding She also explores the theme of celebrity including Coppola s own director star persona and argues that Coppola s auteur status rests on an original and distinct visual style derived from the filmmaker s complex engagement with photography and painting Ferriss analyzes each of Coppola s six films categorizing them in two groups films where fashion commands attention Marie Antoinette The Beguiled and The Bling Ring and those where clothing and material goods do not stand out ostentatiously but are essential in establishing characters identities and relationships The Virgin Suicides Lost in Translation and Somewhere Throughout Ferriss draws on approaches from scholarship on fashion film visual culture art history celebrity and material culture to capture the complexities of Coppola s engag

This is the first English language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa examining the cultural production and exhibition contexts of his feature films shorts and vid

A comprehensive historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar showing how Almodóvar s films draw on various national cinemas and film genres including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship European art cinema Hollywood melodrama and film noir

This new and updated edition covers the full life s work of iconic director Tim Burton including the Netflix phenomenon Wednesday and the start of development on Beetlejuice 2 Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands The Nightmare Before Christmas Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland He is famed for the visually arresting style of his films combined with highly original storylines A truly international filmmaker Tim Burton has carved a reputation as one of the world s greatest creative directors This stunning treasury explores the influences on his development as a filmmaker and assesses how he has captured the fruits of his imagination on screen Illustrated with many behind the scenes photographs and stunning film stills chapters analyse the success and style of films such as Beetlejuice Ed Wood and Mars Attacks and examine how Burton breathed new life into well known stories that include Batman Planet of the Apes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Alice Through the Looking Glass and Dumbo Tim Burton The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work is a must for anyone who enjoys the creativity of films and is a fitting appreciation of one of Hollywood s most dynamic m