A lavishly illustrated retrospective of Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's foremost filmmaker, published to coincide with his 75th birthday.
Pedro Almodóvar is a master of contemporary cinema. An auteur with an infinite imagination, the creator of unforgettable characters, and promoter of a challenging and captivating cinema, his list of accolades is virtually unmatched.
Almodóvar came to prominence during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed after the end of Francoist Spain.
The definitive illustrated retrospective on the Oscar-winning director of some of the most resonant and enduring films of all time.
For more than five decades, Steven Spielberg has created inspiring, exciting and unforgettable movie magic. Jaws, E.T., the Indiana Jones series, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and West Side Story are among the many favourites that have thrilled cinema audiences all over the world. They are some of the highest-grossing, most captivating and enduring films of all time - contemporary classics that indelibly remain part of our lives.
This timely retrospective celebrates more than fifty years of Steven Spielberg's boundless energy and his unwavering commitment to excellence in all areas of his work. Drawing on his many first-person interviews, distinguished writer and critic Richard Schickel provides unique insight on every one of Spielberg's thirty-four major movies. John H. Foote, one of Canada's best known film critics, updates the retrospective to the present day on Spielberg's six latest films, from Bridge of Spies (2017) to The Fabelmans (2022). Including a personal foreword by the director himself, this is an insider's perspective on Spielberg's legendary achievements.
Impeccably designed and illustrated with over 450 superb images (including revealing behind-the-scenes photos from DreamWorks' own archives), Spielberg: A Retrospective is the ultimate tribute to a moviemaking icon, and a book to treasure.
Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration of one of cinema's most enduring talents.
Since his emergence in the early seventies, Martin Scorsese has become one of the most respected names in cinema. Classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas are regularly cited as being among the finest films ever made.
This lavish retrospective is a fitting tribute to a remarkable director, now into his sixth decade in cinema and showing no signs of slowing up. Leading film writer Tom Shone draws on his in-depth knowledge and distinctive viewpoint to present refreshing commentaries on all twenty-three main features, from the rarely shown Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) to the latest release, The Irishman (2019), as well as covering Scorsese's parallel career as a documentary maker.
A history of the early years of the motion picture. 1995 is the official centenary of cinema. In 1885 the first film was shown in Paris. Developments came fast: reportage, travel films, colour, music, and cameras fixed to trains. A book covering the Lumiere brothers to Edison and D.W. Griffiths.
In the early 1960s, an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given USD200,000 and leftover film stock, and told to make a Western. With a script based on a Samurai epic, an American TV actor called Clint Eastwood, music composer Ennio Morricone and cameraman Massimo Dallamano, Leone was expected to make what was essentially a throwaway film. What he ended up with was A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a trilogy that came to define the Spaghetti Western. The films that complete the trilogy, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, are, like the first film, violent, cynical and visually stunning. This examination of Leone and the Italian Western contains an authoritative text written by film expert and cultural historian Christopher Frayling. It also includes interviews with Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Sergio Leone, Rod Steiger, Ennio Morricone, James Coburn, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Bogdanovich, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale, as well as writings by Sergio Leone on film.
The text is accompanied by a wealth of visual material, including production stills, lobby cards, pictorial source sketches, costume and set designs, Italian release posters and photographs of original props.
William Scott (1913-1989) trained at the Belfast College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London, and first came to the public's attention when he participated in the Arts Council's exhibition as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain. In 1953 he visited Rothko, Pollock, de Kooning and others in New York, and began to exhibit there regularly. His work ranges from abstract paintings to ever-richer still lifes with multiple levels of paint, and multiple levels of meaning. This book includes work from all periods, reproduced in 300 full-colour plates. The text is by Norbert Lynton, who has been given completely free access to Scott's private archive by the William Scott Estate.
Charlie Chaplin is well known for his films, but little is known about his private life. This biography tells of his childhood in the London music halls, his stardom in silent film, his work as writer, director and producer, and his often troubled private life.
The Aardman Studios are without doubt the biggest success story in the new wave of British animation. Their achievement in creating such characters as Morph, Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep has been rewarded by unparalleled success.
No fewer than eight Aardman films have been nominated for Academy Awards. Nick Park at Aardman has received four Oscars® for The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and The Curse of the Were-rabbit, all featuring the characters Wallace and Gromit, and for the first Creature Comforts.
The first part of this book sets Aardman's achievements and the history of the studio into the tradition of 3-D animation, which spans such Hollywood triumphs as King Kong and Jason and the Argonauts, as well as such well-known characters as Godzilla.
The heart of the book is an indispensable guide by Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman, to the process of 3-D animation, culminating in a practical, fully illustrated step-by-step description of How to create effective characters How to animate them convincingly How to create a storyboard and sets . and then a Complete film.
This new and updated edition includes an entirely new chapter on CGI, and the text has been revised throughout to reflect recent technological advances and to explore the ways in which new media use animation.
There is no other book that provides this information in such telling and entertaining detail, making it possible for everyone to create their own 3-D animated classic. For fans and enthusiasts of all ages, as well as for serious students of animation, this book is not only a lot of fun - it is essential reading.
"One advantage I think is my design sense. When you're drawing, every element, every line, makes up what it is; and there is a feeling of that when I think about a shot." - Tim Burton
Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades. He is internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit. The World of Tim Burton will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author, as well as exploring some of the key collaborations that have helped shape his world. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Drawn from Tim Burton's personal archive and representing the artist's creative output from childhood to the present day, this exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, props, sculptural installations, storyboards and set design focuses on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton's art and films.
This book will be the official catalogue for the exhibition, as well as the first publication to explore the relationship between Tim Burton's artistic creations and the world of design. The reader will be invited into an examination of what is now broadly referred to as the 'Burtonesque', exploring his iconic style and the impact his unique design aesthetic has on broader visual culture. The catalogue will unpack Tim Burton's distinctive visual language, exploring the intersection of gothic, carnivalesque and fantastical elements that define his cinematic masterpieces. Insightful essays by design experts and film critics, interspersed with images featured in the exhibition, will offer a deeper understanding of the director's creative process, making this catalogue an homage to the role that design practice plays in the hauntingly beautiful worlds he creates.
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