Somebody

Written by Stefan Kanfer

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00

For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Stefan Kanfer answers this question, in the process giving us... Read more >

"Have You Seen . . . ?"

Written by David Thomson

Format: eBook, 976 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $39.95

In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales.

Now, thirty-three years later, we have the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice—that of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian.

Juxtaposing the... Read more >

Kazan on Directing

Written by Elia Kazan
Preface by Martin Scorsese
Foreword by John Lahr

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $30.00

Elia Kazan was the mid-twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this book shows us the master at work.

Kazan directed virtually back to back the greatest American dramas of the era—by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams—and revolutionized theatre and film with dynamic action, poetic staging, and rigorous... Read more >

Conversations with Woody Allen

Written by Eric Lax

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $24.95

In discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences... Read more >

Robert Altman

Written by Mitchell Zuckoff

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a... Read more >

Mainly on Directing

Written by Arthur Laurents

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $25.00

From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director—a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider—and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. It is a book profoundly enriched by the author’s two loves, love for the theater and... Read more >

The As It Happens Files
Radio That May Contain Nuts
Written by Mary Lou Finlay

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $

In the tradition of Peter Gzowski’s The Morningside Papers comes a book that celebrates the great stories and personalities behind As It Happens.

For eight years, Mary Lou Finlay had the pleasure of being the co-host of one of CBC Radio’s most enduring institutions. On any given day she and Barbara Budd... Read more >

My First Movie: Take Two
Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film
Written by Stephen Lowenstein

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $15.95

NOBODY FORGETS THEIR FIRST TIME--AND FILM DIRECTORS ARE NO EXCEPTION.

In these strikingly candid interviews, ten internationally acclaimed directors--Richard Linklater, Richard Kelly, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Shekhar Kapur, Émir Kusturica, Agnès Jaoui, Lukas Moodysson, Terry Gilliam, and Sam Mendes--talk about the struggles and rewards of making their first film.

Each chapter is... Read more >

The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Written by David Rensin

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more than... Read more >

True Brit
The Story of Singing Sensation Britney Spears
Written by Sheryl Berk and Beth Peters

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $4.99

POP PRINCESS

Britney Spears is putting girls back on the map in the pop music world. With the effervescent and intoxicating sounds of her first album, ...Baby One More Time, Britney shot straight to the top of the charts--in just the first week of the album's release. Her ripe style and smart... Read more >