Film & Movies

Hardcover. NY, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. On-set photographs and reminiscences of the the making of the film White Nights, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Isabella Rossellini, and Gregory Hines. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold, Anthony Crickney, Josef Koudelka, and Terry O'Neill; introduction by filmmaker Taylor Hackford. 176 pages; 110 color and 65 b&w plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Large format, profusely illustrated review of Polanski's films, from Knife in the Water (1962) to Carnage (2011). Over 200 color and black-and-white images.Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 279 pages, b&w photos. With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899-1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, opinions about his craft, and impressions of the many famous people he knew. Among other things, Bennett was a decorated WWI hero, an eminent Shakespearean actor, and an Allied spy and propagandist during WWII, but he is best remembered for his commercially and critically acclaimed collaborations with directors Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille. The fruitful partnership began after Hitchcock adapted Bennett's play Blackmail (1929) as the first British sound film. Their partnership produced six thrillers: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). In this witty and intriguing book, Bennett discusses how their collaboration created such famous motifs as the "wrong man accused" device and the MacGuffin. He also takes readers behind the scenes with the Master of Suspense, offering his thoughts on the director's work, sense of humor, and personal life.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 408 pages, b&w illustrations. This remarkable collection of stories, hand-picked from the archive of legendary New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons by his son, film critic Jeffrey Lyons, will transport readers back to the sparkling peak of New York City nightlife. This was the time when notables of every sort--film producers and stars, writers, politicians, comedians, athletes, and artists--gathered nightly at such famed restaurants and nightclubs as Sardi's, the Stork Club, and the Copacabana. From 1934 to 1974, Leonard Lyons was a fixture at these clubs, befriending celebrities of all stripes and gathering exclusive tidbits for his syndicated newspaper column, The Lyons Den. What a Time It Was! offers candid portraits of stars and statesmen at work and at play--especially at play--but still, effortlessly, larger than life. Illustrated with snapshots and glamour shots, it offers a unique window onto the lives of iconic figures from Ethel Barrymore and Muhammad Ali to Tennessee Williams and Jackie Kennedy, as well as their favorite haunts. Here are four decades of popular culture seen from the front row, by a man who said, "Give me lights and sound and people, and music into the night. Late into the night!"

Hollywood CA, 20th Century Fox, 1980, Two b&w glossy photos. 1) Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon and Chris Makepeace. 2) Matt Dillon and his campus crew.

Softcover. reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unknown publisher. Pink paper wrappers, 8 1/2 by 11", 137 pages, xeroxed pages, 3-hole punched and bound with metal brads. No date but code on top of pages reads #PF-134. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition. Dust jacket spine tanned, one small tear and crease at bottom back.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments - which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery - from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic - Citizen Kane , Sunset Boulevard and The Red Shoes - to the unexpected - The Piano Teacher , Burn After Reading - immersing the reader via a groundbreaking marriage of imagery and the author's accompanying narrative. David Thomson's evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film and art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 464 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A day-to-day account of Allen making "Radio Days" in late 1985 and early 1986. A rare and entertaining account of a master director at work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino--and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career. 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 million, Cimino's sprawling western went off the rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to over $40 million. When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the end of Hollywood's auteur era. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven's Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. Elton's Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning rod filmmaker.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Ratpac/Running Press, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 942 pages, b&w photos. Clean, bright copy. Renoir made more than forty films from the silent era to the late '60s and today he is revered by filmmakers and seen by many as one of the greatest of all time. Previously unknown information including Renoir's close affiliation with Communism in the '30s is detailed in this definitive biography.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-HIll Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 412 pages with index, b&w photos. A chronicle of the Hollywood that was, a mythic playground where cinema of both enduring and dubious value was created. .Into this world of illusion and disillusion came some of the greatest literary figures in our history. This is their story, from the 1930's and the early days of sound to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages, b&w photos. Author takes you behind the scenes of Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO and Universal in their glory years.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A day-to-day account of making "Radio Days", b&w photos.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Celebrates every move the Pink Panther has ever made over the past forty years, from the original Pink Panther movie starring Peter Sellers and the long-running animated series to the movie starring Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, and Kevin Kline.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper and pages have some tanning due to age, otherwise clean. Front cover has a crease. In very good condition, no rips or tears. Binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, Disney Press, 1st thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 248 pages. A new edition of a book first published by Abrams in 1981 as "Walt Disney's Treasury of Silly Symphonies". The Silly Symphonies were a series of 76 cartoon shorts produced by the Disney Studio between 1929 and 1939. In 1932. one of them became the first ever animated short film produced in color, and over the years eight of them won Academy Awards. This book features 19 of the stories, illustrated with reproductions from the films, and includes an introductory piece, "The Silly Symphonies - How They Came to Be", and a Filmography of the 76 cartoons. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 253 pages. This book is an appreciation of and a close analysis of the films of Stuart Erwin, a versatile, complex actor whose work has for many years been unfairly neglected. Additionally, this study places Erwin's career within a social, cultural, literary, and historical context. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chunks gone from spine. A witty drama critic from the New York Herald-Tribune offers opinions and gossip on the celebrities of the day. 186 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fading to spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 548 pages, b&w illustrations. The book contains a 65 page Filmography, notes and sources and index. Old price sticker on rear of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Mesmerizing, revelatory text combines with more than two hundred photographs -- most of them taken by the author -- in a startling illustrated memoir that will both astonish and move you. He partied with all the stars and big shots. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks. In a bright dust jacket with sticker residue on rear panel.

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Vestal Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 226 pages with b&w illustrations. This volume presents "the most complete filmography of Chaney's work ever compiled. For each of the actor's 158 known film appearances, [the author] includes cast and crew lists, plot synopsis, critical comments, and behind-the-scenes information. Complementing the text are 120 photographs, most of which are published here for the first time."

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 592 pages, b&w illustrations. Samuel Fuller, independent director-producer extraordinaire, tells the story of his life, a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. His twenty-nine tough, gritty pictures made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism, and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences. He writes of his years in the newspaper business--selling papers as a boy on the streets of New York, working for Hearst's New York Journal American, first as a copyboy, then as personal runner for the famous Hearst editor in chief Arthur Brisbane. His film Park Row was inspired by his years as a reporter for the New York Evening Graphic, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions, and race riots--he scooped every other New York paper with his coverage of the death by drug overdose of the legendary Jeanne Eagels. Fuller talks about directing his first picture (he also wrote the script), I Shot Jesse James . . . and how, as a result, he was sought after by every major studio, choosing to work for Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century Fox. We see him becoming one of the most prolific, independent-minded writer-directors, turning out seven pictures in six years, among them Pickup on South Street, House of Bamboo, and China Gate. He writes about making Underworld U.S.A., a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were no longer seen as thugs but as "respected" tax-paying executives . . . about the making of the movie Shock Corridor--about a journalist trying to solve a murder in a lunatic asylum--which exposed the conditions in mental institutions . . . and about White Dog (written in collaboration with Curtis Hanson), a film so controversial that Paramount's then studio heads, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner, refused to release it. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st revised, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages. The book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation--now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since Citizen Kane. Peckinpah: The Western Films first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's landmark films, locating his work in the central tradition of American art that goes all the way back to Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. In addition to a new section on the personal significance of The Wild Bunch to Peckinpah, Seydor has added to this expanded, revised edition a complete account of the successful, but troubled, efforts to get a fully authorized director's cut released. He describes how an initial NC-17 rating of the film by the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board nearly aborted the entire project. He also adds a great wealth of newly discovered biographical detail that has surfaced since the director's death and includes a new chapter on Noon Wine, credited with bringing Peckinpah's television work to a fitting resolution and preparing his way for The Wild Bunch.This edition stands alone in offering full treatment of all versions of Peckinpah's Westerns. It also includes discussion of all fourteen episodes of Peckinpah's television series, The Westerner, and a full description of the versions of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid now (or formerly) in circulation, including an argument that the label "director's cut" on the version in release by Turner is misleading. Additionally, the book's final chapter has been substantially rewritten and now includes new information about Peckinpah's background and sources.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Business/ Harper Collins , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 532 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index. This is a story of loyalty and betrayal, a multigenerational saga that culminates in the emergence of Michael Ovitz and his Creative Artists Agency as the dominant force in Hollywood. Good in very good dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wrappers, 124 pages. Black/white photos and illustrations. Reproductions of skit scripts and other ephemera from the early years of the TV show. Small notation on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 123 pages, b&w photos.

Columbia Pictures, 1979, Book: Very Good, Two b&w glossy photos of the actress/dancer: Full length and close-up.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Ungar Publishing, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The early years of film, followed by a year by year account from 1920-29, 208 pages with many b&w photos. Foreword by Kevin Brownlow. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, O'Quinn Studios, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, stapled wraps, 78 pages. Includes features on Venusian volcanoes, an interview with Pam Dawber about Robin Williams and Mork and Mindy, Superman The Movie, an interview with Kirk Alyn about Superman, ion propulsion, and an interview with Brick Price about special effects.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A view of American film-making from the author's viewpoint.

Hardcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout. The Fashion of Film is the perfect book for the fashion fan. In it, fashion historian Amber Butchart takes a journey through the last 100 years of cinema style and its influence on the catwalks. With beautiful imagery and thoroughly-researched text, she looks at how our most iconic movies have transformed the world of high fashion. Karl Lagerfeld was influenced by the dystopian vision of Metropolis, the picture-perfect world of Wes Anderson's films are echoed in the collections of Miuccia Prada, and Audrey Hepburn was key to Hubert de Givenchy's work. Fashion designers have long taken their inspiration from silver screen idols, and continue to do so today.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages, color and b&w illustrations. From the beginning in the silents to the era of computerized effects, this book covers it beautifully. Detailed sections on King Kong, Star Wars, Alien, Jaws, E. T., Close Encounters, and of course Blade Runner. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Softcover. Beverly Hills, CA, Lawrence Bassoff Collection, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 159 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light wear to pictorial covers, else a very nice, tight. clean copy. Foreword by Robert Wise. 100 beautiful reproductions of classic crime film posters.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author presents a memoir of her father the well-known playwright, producer, director and screenwriter of such Hollywood classics as The Desert Fox, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Three Faces of Eve, The Dirty Dozen and many others.

Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, b&w photos. Complete filmography. Clean copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages. Written with Busby Berkeley. Foreward by Ruby Keeler. With more than 250 photographs. "The life and works of the Wizard of Oz of the Thirties and Forties with a complete filmography of his meticulously ordered fantasy world." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages. Illustrated with black & white stills. 1 of 500 copies in Hardcover. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, stated first edition, 256 pages, b&w photos. "This is the completely fascinating, thorough and dispassionate biography of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, the Swedish girl who became "one of the great ornaments and excitements of her age." Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Carlton Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" is one of the better "Supermarionation" series that came from the hands of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, known by Americans as well as those in the UK for their many classic puppet series "Supercar", "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", and especially "Thunderbirds"- and their classic live action "UFO" and "Space Precinct".The Captain Scarlet series also was shown in the USA, but in a limited market originally and with wider exposure via compilation films on Showtime and HBO and later on SciFi Channel. Captain Scarlet marked one of the first Supermarionation series to have a truly dark and serious storyline, with an invisible alien race, the Mysterons, seeking revenge for an attack made in error on their cities on Mars. The Mysterons then declared war on Earth. Chris Bentley presents a complete production history and guide to all 32 episodes of the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons series, plus information about voice artists, merchandising and spin-offs. PLEASE NOTE: the book is clean and tight, but was once owned by a smoker and has a smoke odor.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This is Brigit Brophy's original 1964 edition (she later revisited it in 1988) of her profoundly original and controversial psychoanalytic study of Mozart's five most famous operas. 328 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wynwood Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. Biography of the comedian from Toronto who married a Title in England, went on to become an international star as a comedienne on the stage and screen. She experienced the death of her only son in WWII. The author was a friend and confidant until Lillie's death at the age of 90. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Forum/Prima Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 652 pages. As relevant today as the day it was written; to truly comprehend why peace in the Middle East-an end coveted for so long by so many-is becoming more and more illusive, one must read this excellent book. Clean copy.

Softcover. Secaucus NJ, Citadel Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 336 pages, b&w illustration. INSCRIBED BY STRATTON on the title page. For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute. Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the job of a lifetime. Conceived by a stuntman, directed by a blacklisted director, and shot in the sand and heat of the Mexican desert, the movie seemed doomed. Instead, it became an instant classic with a dark, violent take on the Western movie tradition. In The Wild Bunch, W.K. Stratton tells the fascinating history of the making of the movie and documents for the first time the extraordinary contribution of Mexican and Mexican-American actors and crew members to the movie's success. Clean copy.

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 443 pages, b&w illustrations, index. Traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic - the picturesque. "To read Bertellini's superb book is to enter into an intense, rich, and intricately layered experience of Italian immigrant culture in the New York of the 1900's and 1910's." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion/Disney Editions, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else like new. Beautiful & quite lavish book on the making of the Disney full length animated feature. Illustrated with 400 color & b&w drawings, sketches & artwork including an acetate overlay & storyboards.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, New Riders Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Revealing the post-production process of a major motion picture (Cold Mountain) edited in Final Cut Pro, this book offers a glimpse at the creative process of one of cinema's giants: three time Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch. It includes anecdotes from the director, edit staff, and producers; photos, emails, and journal entries