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Vanished Years
By Rupert Everett
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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Into the Woods
By John Yorke
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? This title deals with these questions.
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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
By Rupert Everett
Paperback
Published 05-Jul-2007
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* A truly remarkable book - a warm, witty and sophisticated memoir from one of our most intriguing and articulate stars
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Big Screen
By David Thomson
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, the author tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live. It tells the story of the movies and how they have shaped us.
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Fifth Avenue, 5am
By Sam Wasson
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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This is the story of how one shy, uncertain, inexperienced young actress was persuaded to take on a role she at first thought too hard-edged and amoral
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Groundhog Day
By Ryan Gilbey
Paperback
Published 01-Apr-2004
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It is becoming clearer and clearer that 'Groundhog Day', directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. Ryan Gilbey begins his account of the film with the long and unlucky gestation of the script by Danny Rubin and celebrates the inspired casting of Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
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'Have You Seen...?'
By David Thomson
Paperback
Published 04-Mar-2010
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Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "Zabriskie Point", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.
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Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
By Mark Kermode
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? This title is for anyone who has ever sat in an undermanned, overpriced cinema and wondered: How the hell did things get to be this terrible?
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Marilyn
By Lois Banner
Hardback
Published 02-Aug-2012
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With revelatory new information, from a leading feminist scholar and biographer, a nuanced and sympathetic biography of Marilyn Monroe to be published on the 50th anniversary of her death
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It's Only a Movie
By Mark Kermode
Paperback
Published 04-Nov-2010
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Takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen.
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