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Number of Titles Found: 14
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| Title: Conversations with Kiarostami |
| By (author): Godfrey Cheshire Interviewee: Abbas Kiarostami Foreword by: Ahmad Kiarostami |
| ISBN10-13: 0999468359 : 9780999468357 |
| Conversations with Kiarostami collects for the first time a far ranging series of interviews with the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami by film critic, and Iranian cinema expert, Godfrey Cheshire. Conducted in the 1990s, these in-depth conversations offer a film-by-film account of Kiarostamiâ s views of his artistic development from his first short â Bread and Alleyâ in 1970 to the 1999 feature The Wind Will Carry Us, covering his lesser known, and seldom written about, shorts from earlier in his career, along with the masterworks that made him world famous, such as the Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friendâ s House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees), Close-Up and Taste of Cherry. The book includes a Foreword by Ahmad Kiarostami, the directorâ s son, as well as an introduction from Cheshire that contextualizes the interviews and discusses his relationship with the director. |
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Pages: 188
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 16.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 14 |
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| Title: Diary of a Film |
| Translated by: Nicholas Elliott |
| ISBN10-13: 0999468391 : 9780999468395 |
| â Iâ m woken by unbearable pain and since I canâ t sleep or pace back and forth, I relieve myself by taking this notebook and attempting to cry out my pain to the unknown friends who will read these lines. They exist. I know them without knowing them. I can just see them in the shadows.â â Jean Cocteau Beginning on August 26, 1945, the day before shooting began, until June 1, 1946, the day after the film was first screened, Jean Cocteau kept a diary of the making of his masterpiece Beauty and the Beast. Throughout he details every stage of production, as he faces and surmounts numerous obstacles including severe problems with his health, and ultimately the great pleasures of camaraderie with his remarkable collaborators: Jean Marais, Henri Alekan, and Christian Bérard, amongst others. New English translation by Nicholas Elliott. â I wonder if these hard days might be the sweetest of my life. Full of friendship, affectionate arguments, laughter, and control over fleeting time.â â Jean Cocteau |
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Pages: 162
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| Title: 2 of: 14 |
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| Title: Duras/Godard Dialogues |
| Introduction by: Cyril Béghin Translated by: Nicholas Elliott |
| ISBN10-13: 0999468367 : 9780999468364 |
| Three dialogues between Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard from 1979, 1980 and 1987. Introduction, afterword and footnotes by Cyril Béghin. Translation by Nicholas Elliott. â The two demonstrate a profound shared passion, a way of literally being one with a medium and speaking about it with a dazzling lyricism interspersed with dryly ironic remarks, fueled by a conviction that inspires them to traverse history. Their point of intersection is obvious. Duras, a writer, is also a filmmaker, and Godard, a filmmaker, has maintained a distinctive relationship with literature, writing and speech.â â Cyril Béghin |
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Pages: 148
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2020 |
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| Title: 3 of: 14 |
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| Title: Facing Blackness |
| By (author): Ashley Clark |
| ISBN13: 9798986446325 |
| â In Facing Blackness, Ashley Clark traces the contours of Bamboozled, guiding readers through Leeâ s intricate representation of race, politics, and popular culture. Clark moves beyond straightforward film criticism to situate the film within a complex history of blackness and American entertainment, making a powerful argument for its ongoing relevance and vitality. Thoughtful, rigorous, and witty, Facing Blackness is a thoroughly engaging analysis of this monumental film that is imperative reading for fans of Spike Lee and cinephiles more broadly.â â Racquel Gates, author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture â The value of Facing Blackness isnâ t that Clark renders the film less challenging, but that he has thought through its implications in ways few, if any, have yet attempted. In so doing, he has shown that to understand Leeâ s art, one has to deal with Bamboozled. It is, as Clark puts it, â the central work in Leeâ s canonâ the house on fire to which all roads lead.â Facing Blackness doesnâ t extinguish the fire, but rather maps the roads.â â Keith Watson, Slant Magazine â Clarkâ s in-depth analysis of Bamboozled brilliantly validates and elucidates the importance of a forgotten cinematic treasure. This is essential reading for anyone interested in black film, black history, or Americaâ s dark past.â â Kaleem Aftab, author of Spike Lee: Thatâ s My Story and Iâ m Sticking to It Ashley Clark is a writer, critic and film programmer. He was born in London, lives in Jersey City, and works in Manhattan. Facing Blackness, initially published in 2015, is his first book. This revised second edition contains a new foreword. |
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Pages: 129
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2022 |
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| Title: 4 of: 14 |
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| Title: Film as a Subversive Art |
| By (author): Amos Vogel Foreword by: Herb Shellenberger Edited by: Jim Colvill |
| ISBN10-13: 0999468383 : 9780999468388 |
| Amos Vogelâ s seminal book Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974 and, in Vogelâ s own words, detailed, â the accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored.â It is now available again in this newly restored edition, in which hundreds of errors have been corrected. Accompanied by over three hundred rare film stills, newly sourced and re-scanned for this edition. This revised edition of the book edited by Jim Colvill and Herb Shellenberger. New foreword by Herb Shellenberger. Amos Vogel (1921â 2012) was born in Vienna and emigrated to the United States in 1938, eventually ending up in New York City. From 1947 to 1963 Vogel and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history. In 1963 Vogel founded the Lincoln Center Film Department and was co-founder of the New York Film Festival, which he ran until 1968. He was a longtime faculty member at the University of Pennsylvaniaâ s Annenberg School and a regular contributor to The Village Voice and Film Comment. |
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Pages: 336
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2021 |
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| List Price: 38.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 14 |
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| Title: Film Business |
| By (author): Lillian Ross |
| ISBN13: 9798986446332 |
| Introduction by Richard Brody. Lillian Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, and wrote on filmmakers regularly over the course of her extraordinary career. Beginning with â Come In, Lassie!â , a 1948 report on Hollywoodâ s reaction to HUAC through a 2001 visit to the set of Wes Andersonâ s The Royal Tenenbaums, Ross covered the people who make the movies with singular insight and humor. Rossâ lengthiest pieces, about Otto Preminger fighting against the television broadcast of Anatomy of a Murder in 1966, and Francis Ford Coppola preparing for the release of One from the Heart in 1982, are legendary portraits of the larger than life personalities that Ross rendered human on the page. Also features pieces on: Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Oliver Stone, John Huston, Jacques Tati, Charles Chaplin, Mag Bodard, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, Anjelica Huston, Gene Kelly, Donald Shebib, and John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara & Peter Falk "The recognition, from early in her career, that the center of gravity in the world of movies is indeed the director puts Ross . . . at the forefront of film-centric writers of her generation. The pieces in Film Business reflect her attunement to the art of moviesâ an attunement thatâ s also something of a philosophy of life, as befits the work of a writer who, self-consciously approached nonfiction writing as an essentially literary, novelistic ventureâ and who made that discovery while working on her first major piece about movies.â â Richard Brody, from his Introduction. â While reporting a story, I find myself automatically translating what I see and hear into film-like scenes.â â Lillian Ross |
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Pages: 293
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2023 |
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| Title: 6 of: 14 |
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| Title: Hallelujah Now |
| By (author): Terence Davies |
| ISBN13: 9798986446370 |
| Filmmaker Terence Daviesâ s only published novel. Includes a selection of Daviesâ s original poetry, much of it never before published, along with an introduction by Michael Koresky and an afterword by James Dowling. â Hallelujah Now fearlessly uses the novel form to give voice to anxieties that might have been otherwise unportrayable. Many artists who work in other mediums carry literary aspirations; few pull it off with such provocation and undaunted individuality. Daviesâ s cinema had no comparison, it was a subgenre unto itself, and similarly Daviesâ s novel feels like nothing less than a pure emanation of the self, beholden to nothing and no one else.â â Michael Koresky, from his introduction From Robertâ s birth into a Catholic family in Liverpool, to his surreptitious sexual escapades and sadomasochistic fantasies, and his final, evocative journey to a nursing home, his life unfolds in a sensational and explicit stream of consciousness. Skillfully depicted in three sections, Hallelujah Now is a synthesis of memory, of vividly recaptured moments of childhood, of isolation, lust, and adventure. Time past and time present combine to paint a startling picture of a man fighting to accept his sexualityâ and his mortality. |
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Pages: 191
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| Published: Film Desk Books - September 2025 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| Title: 7 of: 14 |
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| Title: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema |
| By (author): Godfrey Cheshire |
| ISBN13: 9798986446301 |
| â Whatâ s most remarkable about this volume is its transparency. Throughout, in new, rewritten and republished pieces, you can see Godfreyâ s questing and questioning mind latching onto a subject for which he has a deep affinity, learning as much as he can about itâ by pondering the works themselves, talking to their creators, and absorbing the culture that birthed the sceneâ and then figuring out a way to transmit his enthusiasm to the widest American audience possible.â â Matt Zoller Seitz â I admire Godfrey for his strong support of Iranian cinema and his efforts to introduce Iranian films to American audiences. Although movies are shown by distributors and exhibitors, itâ s really the critics who bring the audience. Godfreyâ s reviews also help us in Iran by providing critical support against those who attempt to suppress us and keep us from working.â â Jafar Panahi, filmmaker |
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Pages: 303
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| Published: Film Desk Books - January 2022 |
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| Title: 8 of: 14 |
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| Title: Le Depays |
| By (author): Chris Marker |
| ISBN13: 9798986446349 |
| This is the first English language edition of Chris Markerâ s 1982 photo-essay, Le Dépays. Lovingly adapted from the original design, it features Markerâ s own translation astride some of his most exquisite, yet rarely seen, black-and-white photography. Realized over the same years as its film companion, Sans Soleil, the book traces similar themesâ cats and owls and Japanâ but without ever leaving Golden-Gai for Guinea-Bissau. Musing among department store maneki-neko and dreamers on the metro, wandering between Tokyo and no-place at all, this is nevertheless a unique glimpse of Marker feeling very much himself and quite at home; that is, delightfully disoriented. â Inventing Japan is just another way of getting to know it . . . Trust appearances, consciously confuse the decor with the drama, never worry about understanding, just be thereâ daseinâ and everything will come your way. Well, something, at least . . .â â Chris Marker, from Le Dépays Chris Marker, 1921â 2012. Filmed, photographed, traveled, loved cats. With a new introduction by writer and artist Sadie Rebecca Starnes. |
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Pages: 88
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| Published: Film Desk Books - May 2024 |
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| Title: 9 of: 14 |
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| Title: That Bowling Alley on the Tiber |
| By (author): Michelangelo Antonioni |
| ISBN13: 9798986446363 |
| Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or â narrative nuclei,â each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didnâ t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioniâ s mind and cinematic point of view. |
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Pages: 182
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| Published: Film Desk Books - March 2025 |
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| Title: 10 of: 14 |
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