Sticking Place Books

Negli ultimi vent'anni, Abbas Kiarostami, il regista iraniano di Dov'e´ la casa del mio amico, E la vita continua, Sotto gli ulivi, Close-Up, Il sapore della ciliegia, Il vento ci portera` via,...

In A Shared Cinema, legendary French critic Michel Ciment takes us on a journey through his life, beginning as a film-obsessed youngster in 1950s Paris and early experiences in the United States and...

**THE DIALOGUE TRANSCRIPT OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM A TIME TO STIR** In April 1968, hundreds of impassioned students at Columbia University in New York take action against what they perceive to be...

Casualties of War, Brian De Palma's devastating and brilliant 1989 feature film starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, tells the true story of the rape and murder of a young Vietnamese woman by a...

Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission: Impossible and Carlito's Way - Brian De Palma has directed some of the most potent and stylish movie dramas of the last 50 years.But...

Filmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere,...

Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became...

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Over the past two decades, Abbas Kiarostami - the Iranian film director of Where is the Friend's House?, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Close Up, A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will...

Written more than thirty years ago, Werner Herzog's Mexico screenplay - an epic, stylized dramatisation of the conquest of the Aztec empire by Hernán Cortes and his army in 1521 - is destined to...

Damien Chazelle, the Academy Award-winning writer and director, talks to French scholar Nathan Réra about his films Whiplash, La La Land, First Man and Babylon.Author: Damien Chazelle, Nathan...

The goal of virtually all my writing has been to bring attention to cinematic (and, early on, literary) accomplishments that have not received the careful attention, or the audiences, they deserve...

"Obscene cinema, what a marvel! It's exhilarating; a discovery. The incredible life of enormous and magnificent organs on the screen. The sperm that leaps. And the life of loving flesh, all the...

An exciting new collection of interviews with important screen artists. The acclaimed biographer of Robert Altman, George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Oscar Micheaux and other major film...

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami - author of three books of original verse - released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 -...

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami - author of three books of original verse - released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 -...

In 1969, Stanley Kubrick suppressed a book about his films because it dared to touch on their flaws. Kubrick, fresh from the Oscar-winning success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, promised to fight "tooth...

This lively cinema dialogue - in the form of a cross-Atlantic email correspondence - investigates the idea of The Mystical Filmmaker. It is a complement to the films and fiction of Peter Whitehead,...

Between 1934 and 1968, no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of and a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration. The Production Code was Hollywood's official...

Between 1934 and 1968, no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of and a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration. The Production Code was Hollywood's official...

For every screenplay that becomes a movie, there are hundreds of spec scripts that never see the light of day. Even Oscar-winning screenwriters have their share. In a Hollywood career spanning four...

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami - author of three books of original verse - released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 -...

In Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker, David LaRocca draws from a fan's resolute passion for his subject to face head-on vexing Herzogian notions such as ecstatic truth, the sublime, and the beguiling...

"Immersion" is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn't start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive...

Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami - author of three books of original verse - released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 -...