Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans
$69.99 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the century that shaped him. Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his rich ...Show more
Directed by James Burrows - Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will and Grace, and More by James Burrows; Eddy Friedfeld (As told to)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
"Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I'm delighted that everyone can now share in his incredible insight with this book."--JENNIFER ANISTON From the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, and Will & Grace comes an ...Show more
The Method - How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 * A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 * A 2022 New York Times Holiday Gift Guide selection "Entertaining and illuminating."--The New Yorker * "Compulsively readable."--New York Times * "Delicious, humane, probing."--Vulture * "The best and most important book about acting I've e ...Show more
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion (Commemorating 30 Years) by David A. Bossert
$95.00 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts | Series: Disney Editions Deluxe Ser.
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas was crafted as a piece of art- a visual masterpiece that blended together the genius of Tim Burton's simple story and endearing characters with Danny Elfman's eclectic music; Henry Selick's stop-motion brilliance; Caroline Thompson's heartfelt script; and the ...Show more
David Lynch - A Retrospective by IAN NATHAN
$75.00 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
Stunningly illustrated, this biography of filmmaker David Lynch is published to coincide with the 45th anniversary of Eraserhead. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - not forgetting the award-winning TV series T ...Show more
The World and Its Double - The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. He sought to address the major social, political and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The M ...Show more
Built for Ballet: Leanne Benjamin by Leanne Benjamin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the world’s most important ballet dancers of the past 50 years. Leanne was born and raised in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton in a tightly knit hard-working Catholic family. At the a ...Show more
Gus Van Sant: The Art of Making Movies by Katya Tylevich
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
The first book to talk about the creative process of one of Hollywood's most iconic directors. From Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant's films have captured the imagination of more than one generation. Acclaimed as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker, he is ...Show more
Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian (Season One) by Phil Szostak
$59.99 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
This official behind-the-scenes companion to the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian features exclusive concept art, character and costume sketches, and vehicle and creature designs. The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian takes fans behind the scenes of the first ever live-action Star Wars televisio ...Show more
Ghibliotheque: The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
Based on the Ghibliotheque podcast, which leafs through the library of films from the world's greatest animation studio, Studio Ghibli. A fully illustrated book that reviews each Studio Ghibli movie in turn, in the voice of expert and newcomer. Will include details of production, release, themes, key sc ...Show more
Cimino The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts
The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11 m ...Show more
The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch by Matt Zoller Seitz
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film & Performing Arts | Series: The\Wes Anderson Collection
The official behind-the-scenes companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series The French Dispatch--the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes Anderson--is a love letter to journalists set at the titular American newspaper in the fictional 2 ...Show more