À ce jour, Sergio Leone est la seule biographie à examiner avec autant de minutie et de passion l'oeuvre du réalisateur légendaire du Bon, la Brute et le Truand (1966), Il était une fois dans l'Ouest (1968) ou Il était une fois l'Amérique (1984)... Cette biographie dépasse le seul cinéma de Sergio Leone comme le cinéma de Sergio Leone le dépassait lui-même, pour toucher à ce qui fait la force des grands artistes, l'universalité et l'unicité de l'oeuvre.
A century of classic vampire cinema--in posters, stills and artwork--from Murnau to True Blood and beyond.
This visual feast celebrates classic vampire cinema--mainstream and niche--through the many colorful ways in which the key films have been marketed and consumed.
F.W. Murnau's haunting film Nosferatu had its premiere in Berlin in March 1922. Bram Stoker's widow, Florence, tried hard to sue the production company for breach of copyright but had to settle in the end for a court order to destroy all prints and negatives. The film kept resurrecting, though, and is now considered the first, and one of the greatest, of all vampire movies--the founder of a dynasty of prints of darkness.
The bloodline has spread from Nosferatu to Hollywood's Dracula and progeny (1931-48); from Hammer's Dracula/Horror of Dracula and sequels (1958-74) to versions of Sheridan Le Fanu's story "Carmilla" and other lesbian vampires (1970-2020); from the bestselling novels 'Salem's Lot and Interview with the Vampire to vampires who have shed their capes, hereditary titles and period trappings to become assorted smalltown oddballs, addicts, delinquents, psychopaths, rednecks, fashionistas, gay icons, comedians and even comic-book heroes (1975-2022).
This book is dripping with stills, posters, artworks, press books--many of which have not seen the light of day for a very long time--and is authored by cultural historian and connoisseur of the Gothic Christopher Frayling, who has been called "the Van Helsing de nos jours." Christopher Frayling (born 1946) is a recognized authority on Gothic fiction and horror movies. His study Vampyres (1978, 1990, 2016) and his classic four-part television series Nightmare: The Birth of Horror (1996) have helped to move Gothic horror from margin to mainstream. He is the author of Frankenstein and Once upon a Time in the West.
cinéaste italien, sergio leone (1929-1989) se lance en 1964 dans l'élaboration de westerns et réalise pour une, poignée de dollars, premier film d'une trilogie mythique qui marqua la naissance d'un genre, le western spaghetti.
le succès international de ce film révèle le nom de sergio leone et celui de ses collaborateurs, le musicien ennio morricone et l'acteur clint eastwood jusque-là inconnu. film après film, son style s'affirme, son sens de l'humour et sa narration originale ne cessent. d'évoluer, mettant à l'épreuve les nerfs du spectateur avec ces mises en scène oú le temps s'étire à l'infini sur des musiques désormais cultes.
richement documenté de photographies, d'affiches et d'interviews inédites, il était une fois en italie invite à un étonnant voyage dans l'amérique de leone aux côtés des plus grands noms du cinéma, qui ont tenu l'affiche et contribué au succès de ces westerns de légende.
A partir de la collection personnelle du chef décorateur Ken Adam (léguée au Musée du film de Berlin).
The Oscar-winning set designs of Sir Ken Adam Winner of two Academy Awards, two BAFTAs, several nominations, the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and knighted for distinguished services to film, Sir Ken Adam is widely acknowledged to be the world's greatest living production designer.
From collaborations with Kubrick to seven James Bond films, Sir Ken's spectacular creations include scenes for Dr. No (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), Moonraker (1979). His supertanker set for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was the largest sound stage in the world at the time it was built.
Throughout his resplendent career, Sir Ken Adam has kept a very extensive personal archive of rough sketches, concepts, drawings and set photographs, and recently donated the entire archive to the Berlin Filmmuseum. This book will present visually, for the first time ever, a wide selection from the collection, demonstrating the development of his stunning cinematic illusions from initial concept design to what appears on screen. The rich visuals - many of which have never been seen in public before - will be accompanied by an authoritative text from film and design historian Sir Christopher Frayling, who is also Ken Adam's biographer.
Le film culte de Sergio Leone Il était une fois dans l'Ouest a su célébrer le pouvoir du cinéma classique hollywoodien, méditer sur la création de l'Amérique, mais aussi constater le déclin du genre cinématographique western. Cinquante ans après sa réalisation, ce livre présente des interviews exclusives avec les acteurs clé impliqués devant et derrière la caméra, accompagnées de documents, dessins et photographies inédits ainsi que d'une préface de Quentin Tarantino.
Concerned primarily with the medium of painting, the work of Tina Gillen examines how we relate to the world around us, namely through the themes of landscape and dwelling. Her paintings often originate in photographic images that she modifies, simplifies, pictorially "translates," and pairs with other elements to arrive at compositions that purposefully nurture a certain ambiguity, somewhere between abstraction and figuration, construction and improvisation, the surface of the canvas and the translation of a space. This book is being published in conjunction with her exhibition Faraway So Close, presented at the Luxembourg Pavilion as part of the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Richly illustrated, the catalogue also includes three essays addressing various aspects of Tina Gillen's work-the relationship between painting and space, the ties between painting and photography, and the meaning of landscape today-as well as an extensive interview with the artist.
