Movies Books

Yet again, Bruce has excelled in his great colour reproductions of the movie posters. I collect only comedy posters, so I find this book additonally helpful and informative. Answering questions and clarifying others. I am amazed at the detail and research spent in reproducing a book of such quality. If you enjoy collecting movie posters or at least reading Bruce's books you will find this one as informative as the rest.

Couldnt ask for a better book.This book has posters you can only dream about having hanging on your walls. CHAPLIN,LLOYD and KEATON.Teams like LAUREL AND HARDY and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO.GARY COOPER in A CAPRA movie and even ERROL FLYNN In one of his rare comedys.Bruce doesnt foget that we also have great comedians of today and covers all the way to JIM CAREY. If you love comedies buy this book and you cant go wrong

Its a great book in a field with very few references ( the trailer ) .
As a hollywood trailer researcher was very useful for me .
Congratulations to Lisa Kernan !

No matter whether you're a film professor, film industry professional, or just plain moviegoer, you'll never look at a trailer (movie preview) the same after reading this book. Written with academic rigor and thoroughness, it explains how previews came to referred to as trailers and analyzes trailers for their intended affect, subtext, and demographic. The book follows the author's passion for examining " the hypothetical spectator that can be read within the trailer texts themselves: an "audience study" who can read through the looking glass of the Hollywood film industry." She submits case studies of some 30 trailers, from Casablanca to Paper Moon to Air Force One, dividing them into three eras. By the end of the book you'll really appreciate these free mini-movie/commercials that we all alternately enjoy and hate yet use to decide whether to see a movie or not.

My compliments to this book. It's better organized than most dictionaries and encyclopedias. It's full of copious and well-chosen pictures (which admittedly display the author's nudist sensibilities!) It embraces a large number of films from silly comedies to angst-filled dramas. What they all have in common is that they deal with young people confronting sexual awakening (For a Lost Soldier) or awareness of mortality (A Separate Peace), in short, some catalytic, transformative event of their adolescence.

Everything you could want to know about these movies is in this book somewhere. Everyone involved in their making is mentioned, as are any awards the film earned and a clear synopsis of its plot. Lort's gay nudist perspective insures that nothing is censored, and pictures containing rape, cross-dressing, prostitution, and intergenerational eroticism are dealt with openly.

When Lort gives 5-star reviews to some of my favorite coming-of-age films, like "Stand by Me," "Second Best," or "Rebel Without a Cause," I really enjoy the read. I hope and pray that Lort updates this valuable book (written in 1997) since some important pictures have come along since then like "L.I.E.," "Y Tu Mama Tambien," and "Hearts in Atlantis."

There are over 500 entires in this A to Z video guide. Each contains plot, five-star movie ratings, cast, credits and ratings for sexuality. Also there are multiple indexes and a hard-to-find video locator. Many of our finest actors got their start in coming-of-age films. Tom Cruise, James Dean, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Dillon, Edward Furlong, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Donnell, River Phoenix, Jason Priestly, Keanu Reeves, Brad Renfro, Mark Wahlberg, Scott Wolf and Elijah Wood are just a few. What is a coming-of-age film? In simplest terms, a coming-of-age story is one in which a child or a teenager reaches a critical turning point or event that results in a loss of childhood innocence. Not surprisingly, most often this turning point revolves around adolescent sexuality. Recommended!

This book has everything you want to know about TV Movies, Miniseries and 2 hour pilots. Very, very comprehensive. Has rating/share data as well as airdates,credits, full synopsis and detailed subject matter catagories. It is easy to find the information you are looking for because of the excellent cross-referenced sections.I reccommend this book to Film and Telivision Professional as well as to TV buffs.

This is the only book on the subject of Made for Television Movies that I have found. Very comprehensive.The credits are correct and the log lines (synopsis) of the TV Movies or Miniseries are very detailed. This is only the first edition. There are two other volumes--1994-2000 and 2000-2001....

What would you do if you are going to be free after seven years of prison, and you are involved at a jail outbreak?
The story is amazing and will keep you reading all the time that you maybe will end this book the same day you start it, maybe the chapter 1 is a little bit boring, but that is all, the rest of the book is great.
Here I have a question, how could you believe that the justice say that you have to go to the war and defend your country with your life, and when you are at home and kill someone in self defense you go to jail?
I definitely recommend this book.

Fasten your seat belts as Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Face/Off, The Rock, Snake Eyes) takes you on the most dangerous flight of your life in the smash hit thriller from the producers of Bad Boys, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Armageddon and Enemy of the State......CON AIR!

On an aircraft carrying some of the most notorious criminals of all time, the recently patroled Camron Poe (Cage) is hitching a ride home to see his wife a daughter. But he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a mid-air skyjacking masterminded by Cyrus "The Virus" (John Malkovich, from "The Line Of Fire"). While Cameron fights to keep these massacaring everyone on board, a gouvernment agent on the ground (John Cusack - Grosse Point Blank) battles to keep his overzealous supiors from blowing the plane into oblivion! Amazing stunts and visual effects add heart-pounding suspence to this must see action hit of the year.

a DONSIMPSON and JERRYBRUCKHEIMER production

This is the only professionally written, highly analytic, examination of the greatest documentary film of old times, Dziga Vertov's "The Man With the Movie Camera," which includes a formal analysis of virtually every shot, simultaneously represented with the respective frame enlargement.

This is an excllent title for degree level students studying film, art or european history. I found this an extremely rewarding analysis of Vertov's work and working practice. Petric writes in a way that is academic but also easily understandable for the lay. Petric does not just an analysis 'The Man With The Movie Camera' he also looks in depth at the political and artistic conditions that gave rise to constructivism.

Film studies students often drop the name; Dziga Vertov without actually knowing anything about the man or his work and this book is an excellent way to learn more.

A beautiful book! The author has captured the magic behind the making of this extraordinary movie and its much needed, timely, empowering message for humanity. Kudos Monty !

I was fortunate enough to observe the magic up close for two days in the middle of production. Monty's stunning work has allowed me to experience the entire experience as if I were there.

A "must have" addition to anyone's library who is a Neale Donald Walsch, CWG, Stephen Simon or Spiritual Cinema fan.

Congratulations again Monty and thanks for a magnificent book !

Blessings,

Vic "no relation" Simon

RoseLotus- Both the love of Movies and movies of Love

At age 48 author Neale Donald Walsch was depressed, destitute, and frustrated with his life: he wrote an angry letter to God - and received a channeled answer. Thus began a series of 'conversations'; with God - and eventually a movie - which follow Walsch's move from being poor and homeless to becoming a spiritual messenger. This follows not the book but the movie, providing details on its evolution from pre-production and location sets to filmmaker interviews and interactions. A fascinating spiritual and film review results with plenty of insights in both fields, "Conversations with God" is highly recommended reading and a welcome contribution to film school reference collections.

The intrepid CORAline Jones discovers adventure far over and above what she bargained for, but manages to save herself and five other souls from "The Devastation", when she discovers an other-ly, and ultimately terrifying, version of her world behind a bricked-up doorway in the new flat she and her family have moved into.

It's a cold English summer, a few weeks before the start of a new school year, when Coraline's work-at-home mom and dad buy a flat that is part of a larger house. There is much for Coraline, a bright and inquisitive child, to explore in the world around her new home. She gets to know her eccentric neighbors--two retired and aging actresses and their Scotty dogs in one flat, and a "crazy old man" in another flat. She explores the overgrown "garden" (yard, to us US residents)--checking out the old tennis courts, the meadows, the abandoned well, animals, and so on.

All goes well for a couple of weeks, until the day when it starts to rain. It rains like it really means it--turning everything into muddy soup. Coraline, bored and restless, explores the flat, which is itself unremarkable, with one notable exception. There is a locked door in the drawing room (with the uncomfortable furniture) that leads to nowhere. When her mom unlocks and opens it, Coraline sees only a brick wall, presumably separating their flat from the adjacent, empty flat. That night, she begins to hear funny noises and have weird dreams.

One day when her mother is out buying food, Coraline decides to unlock the mysterious door in the off-limits drawing room, this time finding, not a wall, but a dark hallway leading to what appears to be the same apartment in which her family lives. Sort off. There is even an "other mother" and an "other dad", who are like her own in some ways, except for a few small details, like having big, black buttons for eyes. Her other mother is happy that Coraline has finally joined them, and she intends to get the girl to live with them.

Well, that's when things really start to get interesting, but I'll leave that up to you to read for yourself. Neil Gaiman creates a warped and fantastical world for the brave and resourceful Coraline to come to grips with. The evil other-mother is behind this creative and terrifying other world. New and creepy surprises at every turn. Will she make it? Will she be able to get her real parents back? Will you be able to read it without being afraid?

I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Coraline" and finding out how everything worked out. She is a sympathetic protagonist and the reader is really drawn inti her world. I recommend this book to all readers. And I can't wait to see the movie--it will make a GREAT, suspense-filled movie.

(BTW, I read my first Neil Gaiman book this past week. I am now on my fourth one. All different and all fun to read.)

Nobody can drench a book in creepy, dank atmosphere like Neil Gaiman -- and it doesn't matter if it's a kid's book.

And "Coraline" -- now being released as a movie -- is no exception to Gaiman's track record. It's a haunting little dark fairy tale full of decayed apartments, dancing rats and eerie soulless doppelgangers, as well as a gutsy heroine who finds herself in this ominous "other" world.

Newly moved into an aged apartment, Coraline (not "Caroline" is bored. Her parents are too busy to do anything with her, and her neighbors are either insane or boring.

It's the sort of relentlessly dull world that any little girl would want to escape from -- until Coraline does. She encounters a formerly bricked-up door that leads into an apartment in another world, which looks eerily like her own. In fact, it's so similar that she has a taloned, button-eyed "other mother" and matching "other father," as well as a chorus of singing, dancing rats and magical toys.

At first Coraline is fascinated by the other world, especially since her other parents are very attentive. Then she finds her real parents sealed inside a mirror. With the help of a sarcastic cat, Coraline ventures back into the other world. But with her parents and a trio of dead children held hostage, Coraline's only hope is to gamble with her own freedom -- and she'll be trapped forever if she fails.

Without Neil Gaiman's touch, "Coraline" would just be another story about a kid who learns to appreciate her parents. But he infuses this story with a dark fairy-tale vibe -- decayed apartments, dead children in a mirror, beetles, disembodied hands, monsters that cling to the wall with souls in their grip, and rats that sing about how "we were here before you rose, we will be here when you fall."

That dark, cobwebby atmosphere clings to the increasingly nightmarish plot, as Coraline navigates a world where the other mother has every advantage. And Gaiman's wordcraft is exquisitely horrible -- the other mother's hands are compared to spiders, her hair to undersea tentacles. And the fate of the other father is a magnificently ghastly thing.

He even infuses poetry into the horror ("A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten"), and a fair amount of macabre humour ("I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" "Oh yes. I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back").

Coraline herself is a wonderful little heroine -- strong, sensible, self-sufficient but still fairly freaked out about what is happening around her. The sarcastic cat is a wonderful counterpoint. And the other mother is the stuff of nightmares -- she's utterly inhuman and merciless -- who "wants something to love. Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well."

Neil Gaiman creates eerie, slightly warped worlds like nobody else, and he does an exquisitely horrible job in "Coraline." Just never go through the door.

This is a combination of 3 stories surrounding Cranky and the engines. Cranky's first introduced and is tormenting the little engines. He does it even more when Gordon stands up for him. However, Cranky quickly changes his tune about Percy and Thomas when they come to set him back up again when a storm blows him over. Very, very cute book which also emphasizes the importance of working as a team. Love this one in our house, Recommend!

My whole family are big fans of Thomas the Tank Engine stories. They teach very good life lessons and are very entertaining. My 3 yr old loves to follow along in the book. It is a good tool for learning to read. Can't wait to buy more of these stories on CD.

If those buzzwords appeal to you, you'll want to get your hands on this book and also Jeremy Leven's other book, "Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Sy Kasler, J.S.P.S.". Leven has a rare ability to drag his protagonist into the abyss of madness, and you, the reader, must follow. But there is something compelling about this descent; the journey is involving and, in its odd way, humorous. Definitely not for everybody, but those who like it will love it.

"Creator" was made into a movie in 1985, with Peter O'Toole and scripted by Jeremy Leven. The film was not without appeal, but they had to vastly simplify the rich structure of the book for translation to the screen. I'd advise reading the book, so you'll experience it as it was meant to be. Don't see the movie until after you've read the book.

The movie was criminal, forget it. As for this book, if you can find it - read it.