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David Lynch: Masters of Cinema Series by Thierry Jousse
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying "Eraserhead" (1977). With "Blue Velvet" (1986), "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Lost Hig ...Show more
Ethan and Joel Coen by Ian Nathan
15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema | Reading Level: very good
Ethan Coen (b. 1957) and Joel Coen (b. 1954), known as the Coen brothers, are among the most creative of contemporary American directors. From their very first feature, Blood Simple (1984), to their most recent film, True Grit (2010), they have written, directed and produced their films jointly. Their s ...Show more
Federico Fellini: Masters of Cinema Series by Angel Quintana
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema
Federico Fellini (Italy, 1920-1993) is a major figure in the history of cinema, who created his own highly personal and baroque cinematic language. He had his first major success in 1954 with "La Strada", in which his wife and favourite actress Giulietta Masina plays the unforgettable Gelsomina, an inno ...Show more
Francis Ford Coppola: Masters of Cinema Series by Stephane Delorme
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Francis Ford Coppola (USA, b. 1939) is the oldest of the generation of 'movie brats', including Scorsese and Spielberg, who breathed new life into the Hollywood of the 1970s. He revived the glory of the studio age with the legendary "Godfather" saga (1972-90), explored the soul of America at war in Viet ...Show more
George Lucas by Karina Longworth
15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema
George Lucas (born 1944) is a producer, screenwriter and director, who played a major role in the anti-establishment New Hollywood movement of the 1970s and helped define the blockbuster era of the 1980s. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars space opera and the producer of the iconic Indiana ...Show more
Ingmar Bergman: Masters of Cinema Series by Noel Simsolo
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema
Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1918-2007) is, in the world of cinema, a giant whose stature is comparable to that of Beethoven or Dostoyevsky. He made around fifty feature films that caught the spirit of his times, while endlessly reworking his private obsessions and anguish in the face of a silent God. In Sum ...Show more
Martin Scorsese: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the success of "Taxi Driver" in 1976, which also marked the start of his long collabora ...Show more
Michael Mann by Scott Foundas
15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Michael Man (born 1943) is one of the most interesting directors of our time, whose work lies at the intersection of the mainstream cinema and the avant-garde, of public entertainment and private obsession. Throughout his career, Mann has moved freely between television and cinema: he produced 'Miami Vi ...Show more
Orson Welles: Masters of Cinema Series by Paolo Mereghetti
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema
Welles began his direting career in 1940, at the age of twenty-five, with Citizen Kane, an undisputed, ground-breaking masterpiece of cinema history. Welles' satture as a baroque, impetuous and profoundly free artist made the sudios uncomfortable. He had control of every detail on the twelve feature fil ...Show more
Pedro Almodovar: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Pedro Almodovar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrilena in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics ("Women ...Show more
Quentin Tarantino by Scott Foundas
15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) is considered the enfant terrible of contemporary cinema. From his outstanding debut at the Sundance Film Festival with 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992) to his most recent controversial war film 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), Tarantino has created a fascinating, violent, and highly ...Show more
Roman Polanski: Masters of Cinema Series by David Ehrenstein
15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema
Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French - Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one of the most influential directors living today. A truly international filmmaker, Polanski has received numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and five Oscar nominat ...Show more