Film & Cinema

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever-a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of...

Don't Look Now, released in 1973, confirmed director Nicolas Roeg as one of themost stylish and innovative British directors of the postwar period. Adaptedfrom a short story by Daphne du...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'He writes as well as he acts, with insight, truth and passion' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Highly entertaining... You don't need to be a fan of...

Child-star in "National Velvet", the youthful object of desire who was controlled by her mother and by MGM, Oscar winning actress in "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?",...

This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents...

Written in crisp prose, Kramer''s account of working as a producer in Hollywood is disarmingly honest abo ut the stars and people he has worked with during his many y...

During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life...

Ingmar Bergman's career as a director/screenwriter spanned more than 40 years, during which time he produced such acknowledged classics as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers and...

'I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful film-maker - in that a number of people...

'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas...

As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone. While his friends were out getting laid and stoned, he was tucked up at home dreaming of his name in...

Penny Lancaster counts herself as incredibly lucky. She had a loving upbringing, her life with husband Rod Stewart has spanned continents, she's made incredible friendships, become part of an amazing...

Academy Award-nominated director Chris Weitz and his creative team have brought the second book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire romance saga to the big screen. Inside this deluxe visual companion,...

Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's anti-memoir. Breaking the autobiographical mould, he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life. Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one...

For Francis Ford Coppola, Oscar-winning auteur at the height of his powers, Apocalypse Now was a multi-million-dollar 'personal project' for which he took an original screenplay by John Milius about...

When Lillian Ross, a New York journalist, heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage", she resolved to follow the...

Diaghilev was a prime mover in the strand of modernism in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, encouraging the extraordinary explosion of energy from artists such as Stravinsky,...

Explore the entire history of the Star Wars galaxy, from the movie storylines to favourite characters, with this complete companion. Featuring specially commissioned maps, the history of the galaxy, profiles...

It's April 2016. Stephen Bradley has just spent a very hectic year and a half promoting his latest film, Noble, as it was released across the world from Los Angeles...

Forever a circus ringleader at heart, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) is remembered as one of cinema's greatest storytellers. From bittersweet, heart-wrenching tales (La Strada and Nights of Cabiria) to semiautobiographical classics...

Pasolini's body was found in a deserted field outside Rome in November 1975. He had been murdered by a homosexual prostitute, but it is possible that the murder was in...

This work emerged from a series of conversations over the course of 14 years, between the master director Federico Fellini and the author, Charlotte Chandler. Like his films, Fellini's memoir...

Taken decade by decade, Derek Jarman's life is a virtual encapsulation of the social and cultural history of the latter half of the twentieth century, from post-war austerity through the...

EISENSTEIN is an authoritative biography of the Russian film director of IVAN THE TERRIBLE and BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. It presents a fascinating portrait of the man and his work against a...