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The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film

By Richard E Grant

Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best of SModcast: The Best of the SModcast

By Kevin Smith

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

Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii

By Brian Ruh

Almodovar on Almodovar

By Frederic Strauss

The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Made Them

By Studs Terkel

Stanley Kubrik Directs

By Alexander Walker

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

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

Entirely Up to You, Darling

By Diana Hawkins, Richard Attenborough

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

By Noah Isenberg, Billy Wilder, Shelley Frisch

William Wyler

By Axel Madsen

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

Jacques Tati

By David Bellos