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An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel

2 reviews
Luis Buñuel

University of California Press, 2002

Finally, these writings are available
This is a wonderful and funny collection of surreal writings from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Many of the earlier, surreal writings by Bunuel, written when he was with the Surrealists in France, are imaginative and funny. There is also the complete collection of poetry originally titled An Andulsian Dog, which is surprisingly strong. The criticisms by Bunuel, along with the ...

From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings of Guy Maddin

2 reviews
Guy Maddin

Coach House Press, 2003

A treat for Guy Maddin fans
This little book is great--a feast of short pieces from the pen of Canadian surrealist Guy Maddin. We have here film and DVD reviews, articles, screenplays for produced and unproduced short films, journal excerpts and miscellaneous bits, all as funny and eccentric as one would expect from the director of "Tales from the Gimli Hospital." (None of this duplicates the material in his "Cowards Bend ...

Positif 50 Years: Selected writings from the French Film Journal

1 review
Vincent Amiel, Robert Benayoun, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

An enjoyable, entertaining read
This is a nice little collection of writings from the influential French film journal, Positif. There are a good range of articles all the way from Neo-realism and new wave to a review of Lynch's "Lost Highway". The book is aimed at popular consumption with it's sprinkling of photos and its handsome layout, as opposed to a more scholarly anthology of critical writings. This book is perfect for ...

Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making

1 review
Stan Brakhage, Bruce R. McPherson

McPherson, 2001

the best brakhage book
After plodding through Brakhage's "Metaphors on Vision" as well as "the Brakhage Scrapbook" during my research on this amazing filmmaker, I was thankful to find Brakhage's most interesting and significant writings collected into this single volume. It truly is the "essential brakhage." Personally, I don't really think that much of what else remains in those OTHER two volumes (all those ...

Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings

4 reviews
Louis Armstrong

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Armstrong hits a high C on his typewriter.
If you like jazz, Armstrong, "Potato Head Blues," or life itself, read this book.

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters

7 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

I love it.........
Mozart's full and final dedication to his work was exemplary; no doubt, his music spoke for the conscience of the world and his audience felt an almost religious faith in it. But the young man had frivolous and fun-loving personality, and his closeness to infantile notions was apparent with friends, relatives and pupils. Mozart was possessor of the least inhibited tongue even in his contacts ...

Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings

8 reviews
Antonin Artaud

University of California Press, 1988

The theatre, life and writings of a brilliant lunatic
This isn't a book that you read from cover to cover. Find a subject that interests you. Then another. And then another. Soon you'll find yourself caught in his web of genius. His madness came from his endless spring of sanity that could no longer hold up under the insanity of the world he lived in. Genius suffers. He suffered too much. Years ago I saw a one man play "Artaud's Project" in Chicago. ...

Cinema & Multiculturalism Selected Proceedings

1 review
Sheryl L. Postman, J. Heli Hernandez

Legas Publishing, 2001

Introduction to sicilian grammar
O one of the best books on the old sicilian language.I read it from cover to cover, Shoukd be very easy to pick up a lot of words and and frazes.It will never leave my house or be lent out to anyone.I loved the book.

Selected Letters Of Sergei Prokofiev

1 review

Northeastern, 1998

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The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals

1 review

Turner Pub, 1994

Worth its weight in gold (and then some)!
I absolutely love this book. It is an invaluable resource for the animation fan. The book takes 50 of the greatest short subject cartoons ever made and discusses why they are considered great. With each cartoon mentioned, the animation professionals responsible for the cartoon discuss the inspiration behind the cartoon's creation, how the cartoon came to be, problems the artists faced, etc. ...

Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews

6 reviews
Alfred Hitchcock

University of California Press, 1997

Very good reading
Yes, some of it dragged a bit. But overall I found it very interesting indeed. There was a chapter on the making of "Rope", as well as a speech Hitchcock made at a dinner which is worth buying the book for. His sense of humour is very humourous. It was fascinating to read all the things he had to say about filmmaking and how to please the audience. I read it straight through except that once I ...

James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (Library of America)

2 reviews
James Agee

Library of America, 2005

Insightful, Inspired, Kind
James Agee was the first film critic, that I know of, who percieved and prophesied the poetic power of images on film. After reading his addictive reviews and enjoying his rich and witty prose the reader will know a lot about Agee the man, his sensitivities, his ideals and his prejudices. Anyone interested in film from the 1940's or film criticism in general should really own this book. An ...

Think of the Self Speaking: Harry Smith, Selected Interviews

2 reviews
Harry Smith, Allen Ginsberg, ...

Cityful Press, 1998

conversations with eclectic wise man
Wild amazing mind of Harry Smith, poet, archivalist, anthropogist, shaman, revealed in sudden bursts of illuminating starfall. Read these interviews and dance with a firebreath world. Planets spin and we spin with them. Great.

African Images : Recent Studies and Text in Cinema #8
Mich.) African Literature Association Meeting 1997 (East Lansing

Africa World Press, 2000

Advances in epitaxy and endotaxy: Selected chemical problems (Materials Science Monographs)

1 review

Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co, 1976

Comprehensive review of 1970's technology
edited by: Schneider, H. G. and Ruth, V.; published by Elsevier Scientific Publshing Co., ©1976. The book covers epitaxial growth techniques for Si and GaAs semiconductors as well as early CVD work. Some other III-V and II-VI compounds are also covered. Also included are some semiconductor physics, as well as kinetics of growth techniques. The technology is certainly old, but it gives ...

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