Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Film - Guides & Reviews

With it’s glorious backdrop of fifties rock and roll, Lemon Popsicle told of the sexual misadventures of three boys in Tel Aviv. The film broke box-office records around the world and helped to establish the producers, Golan and Globus, as a force in Hollywood. Britain’s Popsicle expert, Roy Mitchell, pools his resources with the historian, Paul Sutton, to produce a pictorial celebration of all the Popsicle films and spin-offs, from Eskimo Limon in Israel, and the Eis Am Stiel films co-produced in Germany, to the popular U.S. remake, The Last American Virgin.

In his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson--one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema--shows us how to get more out of watching any movie. Guiding us through each element of the viewing experience, considering the significance of everything from what we see and hear on-screen--actors, shots, cuts, dialogue, music--to the specifics of how, where, and with whom we do the viewing, Thomson explicates the movie watching experience with his customary candor and wit. Delivering keen analyses of films ranging from Citizen Kane to 12 Years a...

A survey of the series of James Bond films, which have long been considered among the most popular and successful of British movies, and have also come to be regarded as a useful barometer of Western geopolitical attitudes throughout the series' long-running duration. This new book from Thomas A. Christie takes a look at all of the James Bond movies produced during the 1980s, and investigates the series' changing approach to its subject matter during this most socially turbulent of decades.

Moving from the East-West tension...

Arriving fifty years after Ebert published his first film review in 1967, this second edition of Awake in the Dark collects Ebert's essential writings into a single, irresistible volume....

52 years ago, Richard Roat started his hobby of collecting movie material on the Dead End Kids and Bowery Boys. In that 52 years, he has collected all the posters from each film--81 in total--plus lobby cards, half sheets, and a treasures trove of 8x10 pictures.

With each new day, Richard discovers more information and uncovers more source materials about these infamous young actors, with this fourth volume only being the latest of his presentations of over 500 new and rare photographs.

52 years ago, Richard Roat started his hobby of collecting movie material on the Dead End Kids and Bowery Boys. In that 52 years, he has collected all the posters from each film--81 in total--plus lobby cards, half sheets, and a treasures trove of 8x10 pictures.

With each new day, Richard discovers more information and uncovers more source materials about these infamous young actors, with this fourth volume only being the latest of his presentations of over 500 new and rare photographs.