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Oscar Night Reading
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Put out the red carpet for these fantastic books on filmmaking, film stars and the best in movies from the sublime to the scary...
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In its coverage of the film industry, Vanity Fair prides itself on assigning the world's top photographers, writers, and illustrators to explore the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament. Now, for the first time, the most memorable Vanity Fair subjects are gathered together: Garbo and Swanson, Fairbanks and Pickford, Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Taylor and Burton — along with today's cinematic giants, including Cruise and Kidman, Nicholson and Streep, De Niro and DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, and scores more. Read more here.
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Stephen Walker is a neurotic British filmmaker with a mixed track record and a great idea: to give audiences a peek inside the world of filmmaking by documenting the madcap adventures of four fledgling directors at the annual Cannes Film Festival. Walker's cast of Cannes hopefuls includes an unknown American with a full entourage, a Rastafarian who hijacks a phone booth to use as his office, a first-time French director with a film in the official competition, and a London cabbie who drives to Cannes in a van emblazoned with a giant marijuana leaf, hoping to raise money for his film called Amsterdam. Click here to read more.
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Following Brando from his moody teenage years in the midwest through his rise to stardom and eventual withdrawal from public life, Marlon Brando offers a penetrating look at the actor's evolving persona. Bosworth probes Brando's alcoholic parents' influence on his acting, his decades of psychoanalysis, and his tumultuous personal relationships. Read more here. |
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This is the essential source for information on the creatures and monsters that darken your daydreams and stalk your nightmares. Separated into five identifiable categories — aliens, beasts, creations, psychopaths, and the supernatural — each horrific entity is presented with a full description, an overview of unnatural habits, and tips on how to destroy it. This definitive handbook also includes a directory of horror films, photographs and a ranking of the worst movie creatures by their number of kills. Click here for more.
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Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers, masterworks by classic directors, the animated favourites and the greatest foreign films ever made. Maltin's 2003 guide is packed with the films you can't afford to miss — and those you can! They're all listed here alphabetically, complete with all the essential details you could ask for. Click here for more. |
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The annual Time Out Film Guide covers every area of world cinema: classic silents and 1930s comedies, documentaries and the avant garde, French or Japanese, the Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors. Read more here.
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