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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of Ang Lee's Epic Film

By James Schamus

My First Movie: Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk about Their First Film

By Various, Stephen Lowenstein

Images : My Life in Film

By Ingmar Bergman

The Alfred Hitchcock Story

By Ken Mogg, Janet Leigh

Something Like An Autobiography

By Akira Kurosawa

SIR JOHN, THE MANY FACES OF GIELQUI

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

By Steven Rybin

The Cinema of Martin Scorsese

By Lawrence Friedman

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography

By John Baxter

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws

By J Mcdonough

George Lucas: A Biography

By John Baxter

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

The Complete Lynch

By David Hughes, Barry Gifford

The Very Breast of Russ Meyer

By Paul A. Woods

The Films of Peter Greenaway

By Amy Lawrence (Dartmouth College, Vermont)

Ridley Scott

By Paul M. Sammon

Tim Burton

By Helmut Merschmann

Gilliam on Gilliam

By Terry Gilliam, Ian Christie

Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent

By Matthew Bernstein

Joel And Ethan Coen

By Ellen Cheshire, John Ashbrook

Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii

By Brian Ruh

Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann

By Vincent M. Gaine

Lobby Cards: the Classic Films: The Michael Hawks Collection

By Kathryn Leigh Scott

The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers

By George Melnyk

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

George Lucas: A Biography

By John Baxter

The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study of Films and Directors

By Peter Hanson

Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar

By Paul Julian Smith

The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition

By Stephen Prince