Books:

Millennial Stages: Essasys and reviews 2001-2005 By Robert Brustein

Often called the dean of American drama, critic, playwright, scholar, teacher, director, actor and producer Robert Brustein offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. In this wide, witty, and wide-ranging collection of recent writings, Brustein examines crucial issues relating to theatre in the post 9/11 years, analysing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world.

Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World By Seymour Chatman

Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, argues Chatman, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. In a free-ranging analysis of the evolution of the director's style that quotes liberally from Antonioni's own articulate writings and interviews, Chatman shows how difficult it was for the filmmaker to liberate his art from the conventional means of rendering narrative, especially dialogue, conventional sound effects, and commentative music.

Green Beat: The Forgotten era of Irish Rock By Daragh O Halloran

You could be forgiven for thinking that 1960s popular music in Ireland meant one thing - Showbands, but you would also be very wrong. Alongside the sharp-suited, silky-voiced crooners of the Royal and the Miami existed a spontaneous, vibrant and progressive alternative - groups who drew their inspiration as much from the blues and soul of the Mississippi Delta as from the likes of The Beatles, Dylan and the Stones. In this revealing work, based on exclusive interviews with those who were there, Daragh O Halloran unearths the story of the now largely forgotten pioneers of Irish rock and pop.

The Films of Peter Weir By Jonathan Rayner

Peter Weir is, without doubt, one of the most important Australian film directors of all time. His films have had a major impact, both in terms of the Australian film industry and as the work of an innovative auteur working within the confines of the Hollywood studio system. This fully revised and updated edition of Rayner's acclaimed study takes an in-depth look at the career of a filmmaker who has, over the course of thirty years, put together a substantial and much-loved body of work.

Making Short Films By Jim Piper

Are you eager to express yourself creatively in short films, but don't know how to get started? Making Short Film will show you how to explore, innovate and experiment in poetic and visually exciting ways. Throughout this all-encompasing primer, you will be guided and inspired by three hundred stills from actual film students. In addition, thirty of the more than one hundred films discussed are on the accompanying DVD.

 

DVDs:

I Am Cuba By Mikhail Kalatozov

I am Cuba is an epic poem to revolution and communist fervour - a dramatic journey through the decadence of Batista's Havana and the grinding povery and oppression of the Cuban people. In the four stories showing the rise of the revolution Palme D'or winner Kalatozov uses astonishing, acrobatic and groundbreaking camera work to take the viewer on a sweeping ride encompassing bathing beauties, landless peasants and student revolutionaries.

Satantango By Bela Tarr

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Bela Tarr's epic rendering of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's novel, about the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe, is a unique and visionary masterpiece that defies classification and transcends genre. Set in a struggling Hungarian agricultural collective, a group of lost souls reeling from the collapse of their Communist utopia face an uncertain future, until the arrival of a charismatic stranger in whom they believe lies their salvation. The collective's individual experiences and fates are gradually revealed in Tarr's immaculately composed, brilliantly photographed and bleakly comic tour-de-force.

John Pilger: Documentaries that Changed the World

Released on DVD for the first time and personally chosen by John Pilger, this set brings together twelve of the acclaimed Australian film maker and journalist's most hard-hitting and inspirational films. A passionate and rare critic of foreign military and economic ventures by Western governments, Pilger has been described as unique on British television. His work makes uneasy viewing as he uncovers shocking truths about the political forces that manifest in the world today.

Funeral Parade of Roses By Toshio Matsumoto

A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grindhouse shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether regions of the late 60s Tokyo underworld. In Matsumoto's controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the world of contemporary graphic design, painting, comic books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of sex and drug-use.

World Cinema Classics

With Christmas on the hoizon, this five-disc box set is the perfect gift for the movie-lover in your life. The five films included are: Jean de Florette, Talk to Her, The Story of the Weeping Camal, Kagemusha, and The Chorus.

 

 

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BOOKS

 

BFI FILM CLASSICS
L'Age D'Or - Paul Hammond
An Actor's Revenge - Jan Breakwell
The Blue Angel - S. S. Prawer
Boudu Saved From Drowning - Boston
Cesar - Stephen Heath
Citizen Kane - Laura Mulvey
Double Indemnity - Richard Schickel
Les Enfants du Paradis - Jill Forbes
Fires Were Started - Brian Winston
Fear Eats the Soul - Laura Cottingham
Greed - Jonathan Rosenbaum
In the Realm of the Senses - Joan Mellen
Ivan the Terrible - Yuri Tsivian
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - A. L. Kennedy
Metropolis - Thomas Elsaesser
'M' - Anton Kaes
Mother India - Gayatri Chattererjee
Meet me in St. Louis - Gerald Kaufman
Napoleon - Nelly Kaplan
The Night of the Hunter - Simon Callow
On the Waterfront - Leo Braudy
Red River - Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues
Seven Samurai - Joan Mellen
Sunrise - Lucy Fischer
Shadows - Ray Carney
Taxi Driver - Amy Taubin
Vertigo - Charles Barr
Wild Strawberries - Philip French

BFI MODERN CLASSICS
L'Argent - Kent Jones
Blade Runner - Scott Bukatman
Caravaggio - Bersani and Dutoit
A City of Sadness - Berenice Reynaud
Crash - Iain Sinclair
Dead Man - Jonathan Rosenbaum
The Exorcist (revised edition) - Mark Kermode
The Idiots - John Rockwell
Last Tango in Paris - David Thompson
The Thin Red Line - Michel Chion
Nosferatu (Herzog) - S. S. Prawer
The Silence of the Lambs - Yvonne Tasker
Trainspotting - Murray Smith
The 'Three Colours' Trilogy - Geoff Andrew
The Right Stuff - Tom Charity
Withnail and I - Kevin Jackson
The Usual Suspects - Ernest Larson

IRISH
The Story of Irish Film - Arthur Flynn
Irish Film Censorship - Kevin Rockett
Film History and National Cinema - Edited by Kevin Rockett and John Hill
Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries - Kevin Rockett and Emer Rockett
RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television - Farrel Corcoran
Stills, Reels and Rushes - Michael Gray
The Cinema of Britain and Ireland - Brian Mcfarlane
The Irish Media Directory and Guide 2006 - Helen Shaw
Irish National Cinema - Ruth Barton
Screening Ireland - Lance Pettitt
December Bride - Lance Pettitt
The Quiet Man - Luke Gibbons
This Other Eden - Fidelma Farley
The Informer - Patrick F. Sheeran
Ulysses - Margot Norris
The Dead - Kevin Barry
The Field - Cheryl Herr
Nora - Gerardine Meaney
Acting Irish in Hollwood - Ruth Barton
Irish Film - Martin MacLoone
Navigations: Collected Irish essays 1976 to 2006 - edited by Richard Kearney
Irish Media: a critical history since 1922 - John Horgan
Film History and National Cinema - edited by John Hill and Kevin Rockett
Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett - edited by Elizabeth Knowlson

SCREENWRITING
The Plot Thickens - Noah Lukeman
Writing Comedy - Ronald Wolfe
Comedy Film - Stuart Voytilla
The Script-Selling Game - Kathie Fong Yoneda
Alternative Scriptwriting - Ken Dancyger
Writing the Short Film - Ken Dancyger
Screenwriters' Masterclass - Edited by Kevin Conroy Scott
Screenwriting Updated - Linda Aronson
Advanced Screenwriting - Dr. Linda Seger
From Script to Screen - Dr. Linda Seger
Ask the Pros: Screenwriting - Edited by Howard Meibach
Screenwriting - Lew Hunter
The Hollywood Standard: the complete guide to script format and style - Christopher Riley
Script Analysis for actors, directors, and designers - James Thomas
Save The Cat! - Blake Snyder
Creating Characters - Marisa D'Vari
The Definitive guide to Screenwriting - Syd Field

DIRECTORS
The Cinema of Wim Wenders - Alexander Graf
The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow - Deborah Jermyn
The Cinema of Emir Kusturica - Goran Gocic
The Cinema of John Carpenter - Ian Conrich
The Cinema of Robert Lepage - Aleksander Dundjerovic
The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda - John Orr
The Cinema of Terrence Malick - Hannah Patterson
The Cinema of George A. Romero - Tony Williams
Sergio Leone: Something to do with Death - Christopher Frayling
Trier on Trier
Schrader on Schrader
Gilliam on Gilliam
Kazan on Kazan
Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Loach on Loach
Levinson an Levinson
Scorsese on Scorsese
Woody Allen on Woody Allen
Wong Kar-Wai - Peter Brunette
Humphrey Jennings - Kevin Jackson
Stanley Kubrick - Vincent LoBrutto
Alan Clarke - Richard Kelly
Images: My Life in Film - Ingmar Bergman
Jean Vigo - P. E. Salles Gomes
The Films of Peter Weir - Jonathan Rayner
The Cinema of Michael Powell - Ian Christie
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye - Andrew Robinson

BIOGRAPHY
Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder - Charlotte Chandler
Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care - Lee Server
Lord of Misrule - Christopher Lee
Orson Welles - Peter Conrad
Hollywood Animal - Joe Eszterhas
Adventures of a Suburban Boy - John Boorman
Alec Guineness - Garry O Connor
Clark Gable - Warren G. Harris
Clint: The Life and Legend - Patrick McGilligan
Richard Harris - Michael Feeney Callan
Ian Holm: Acting my Life.

GENDER/RACE STUDIES
The Trouble with men: masculinity in cinema - edited by Phil Powrie
Screening the male - edited by Steven Cohan
Into the Vortex: female voices and paradox in film - Britta Sjogren
Black Lenses/Black Voices: African American film now - Mark A. Reid
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, anthropology, and turn of the century visual culture - Alison Griffiths
Passionate Detachment: introduction to feminist film theory - Sue Thornham
Outlaw Culture - Bell Hooks
The Woman who knew too much: Hitchcock and feminist theory - Tanya Modleski Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Culture, and the MGM Musical - Steven Cohan Territories of Desire in Queer Culture - edited by Anderson and Alderson
Women and Media in the Middle East - edited by Naomi Sakr
Queer Images: History of gay and lesbian film in America Representation of HIV and AIDS - Gabriele Griffin

FILM STUDIES
The Story of Film - Mark Cousins
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts - Susan Hayward
A History of Narrative Film - David A. Cook
How to Read a Film - James Monaco
The Art of Watching Films - Joseph M. Boggs
Film: A Critical Introduction - Maria Pramaggiore
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies - John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
Film Analysis: A Norton Reader - Jeffrey Geiger
Film Art: An Introduction - David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
An Introduction to Film Studies - Jill Nelmes
The Cinema Book - Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink
The Way Hollywood Tells it: Story and Style in modern movies - David Bordwell Children, Cinema, and Censorship - Sarah J. Smith
Film as Art - Rudolf Arnheim In Search of Cinema: writings on International film art - Bert Cardullo
Film, Literature, Heritage: a Sight and Sound reader - edited by Ginette Vincendeau
Transnational Cinema: the film reader - edited by Elizabeth Ezra
Experimental Cinema: the film reader - edited by Dixon and Foster
What is Cinema: parts one and two - Andre Bazin
Cinema: 1 and 2 - Gilles Deleuze
Psychoanalysis and Cinema - Christian Metz
Heavenly Bodies - Richard Dyer
A Matter of Images - Richard Dyer
Film Parody - Dan Harries
Screen Methods: comparative readings in film studies - edited by Furby and Randell
Theory of Film - Seigfried Kracauer

THE WALLFLOWER PRESS SHORT CUTS SERIES
The Horror Genre: From Beelzebub to Blair Witch - Paul Wells
Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace - King and Krzywinska Early Soviet Cinema: Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda - David Gillespie Reading Hollywood: Spaces and Meaning in American Film - Deborah Thomas
Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe - Stephen Keane
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film - Sarah Street
Mise-en-Scene: Film Style and Interpretation - John Gibbs
New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations - Sheila Cornelius
Scenario: The Craft of Screenwriting - Tudor Gates
Animation: Genre and Authorship - Paul Wells
British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit - Samantha Lay
Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive - Valerie Orpen
New German Cinema: Images of a Generation - Julia Knight
Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory - Popple and Kember
Music in Film: Soundtracks and Synergy - Pauline Reay
Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility - Mercer and Shingler
Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation - Andrew Klevan
The Musical: Race, Gender, and Performance - Susan Smith
Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City - Mark Bould
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen - Timothy Shary
Documentary: The Margins of Reality - Paul Ward
The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars - Peter Kramer
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City - Mark Shiel
War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line - Guy Westwell

DIRECTING/PRODUCING
Film Directing: Shot by Shot - Steven D. Katz
Film Directing: Cinematic Motion - Steven D. Katz
Directing: Techniques and Aesthetics - Michael Rabiger
Directing the Documentary - Michael Rabiger
Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker - Dan Rahmel
The Budget Book for Film and TV - Robert J. Koster
The Filmmaker's Intuition: Script analysis and rehearsal techniques - Judith Weston
First Time Director: How to make your breakthrough movie - Gil Betman Raindance Producer's Lab: lo-to-no budget Filmmaking - Elliot Grove
Guerilla Filmmaker's Handbook: 3rd edition - Jones and Jolliffe
Guerilla Filmmaker's Movie Blueprint - Jones
Producer's Business Handbook - Lee and Holt
Film Production Management - Bastian Cleve
Complete Film Production Handbook - Eve Light Honather
The Art Direction Handbook for Film - Michael Rizzo

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Painting with Light - John Alton
If Its Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: the meaning of colour in cinema - Patti Belantoni
Cinematography: Theory and Practice - Blain Brown
Digital Cinematography - Paul Wheeler
Picture Composition for Film and TV - Peter Ward
Practical Cinematography - Paul Wheeler
Placing Shadows: Lighting Techniques for Video Production - Gloman and LeTourneau

ADAPTATIONS: BOOK TO FILM
Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard
LA Confidential - James Ellroy
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) - Philip K. Dick
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (A Cock and Bull Story) - Laurence Stern The Godfather - Mario Puzo
A Kestral for a Knave (Kes) - Barry Hines
1984 - George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

SOFTWARE
Final Draft Scriptwriting Software, version 7

DVDs

IRISH
The Rocky Road to Dublin
Angela's Ashes
The Commitments (also available in 2 disc set)
Trojan Eddie
On The Edge
Veronica Guerin
This is my Father
Darkroom
In Dreams
Rat
Michael Collins
The Good Thief
Mona Lisa
My Beautiful Laundrette
Into the West
The Book that Wrote Itself
Dead Bodies
Beyond the Pale
Goldfish Memory
Heartlands
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
In The Name of The Father
Waking Ned
Disco Pigs
In America
Phonebooth
Inside I'm Dancing
Irish Destiny
Pavee Lackeen
Mise Eire
Dead Meat
The Dead
Rocky Road to Dublin
Beckett on Film

FRENCH
Le Diner de Cons
Les Enfants du Paradis
Pickpocket
The Trial of Joan of Arc
L'Argent
Au Hasard balthazar
Le Mepris
Un Coeur en Hiver
Boudu Saved From Drowning
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Bon Voyage
A Very Long Engagement
Le Boucher
Red Lights
Switchbade Romance
The Chorus
Irreversible
The Barbarian Invasions
Nikita
Subway
Les Diaboliques
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Playtime
Mon Oncle
Jour de Fete
Le Regle du Jeu
Diva

ITALIAN
La Dolce Vita
Fellini's Roma
I Vitelloni
Umberto D
Fellini's 8 and a Half
Il Bidone
La Strada
Life is Beautiful
Respiro
Il Postino

RUSSIAN
Alexander Nevsky
The Battleship Potemkin
Russian Ark
The Sacrifice
Andrei Rublev
Nostalgia
Mirror
Stalker
Ivan's Childhood
Come and See
Nightwatch

GERMAN
The Miracle of Bern
Mostly Martha
Run Lola Run
Werner herzog box set
The Edukators
Goodbye Lenin

ASIAN CINEMA
The Akira kurosawa Collection:
Seven Samurai
I Live in Fear
The Bad Sleep Well
Sanjuro
Throne of Blood
Red Beard
Yojimbo
The Hidden Fortress
High and Low
Stray Dog
Ikiru
Rashomon
Ran
Kagemusha

Wong Kar-Wai Collection:
As Tears go by
Chinese Odyssey
Days of Being Wild
Happy Together
Chungking Express
In The Mood for Love
2046

Other Titles:
Dark Water
When the Last Sword is Drawn
3-Iron
Old Boy
Save the Green Planet
Untold Scandal
Ozu Collection Volume 1
Ozu Collection Volume 2
Kuroneko
Onibaba
Pitfall
The Face of Another
The Naked Island
Humanity and Paper Balloons
An Actor's Revenge

GAY AND LESBIAN INTEREST
Head on
Latter Days
Lilies
Zero Patience
Goldfish Memory
Yossi and Jagger
From the Edge of the City
Girls Can't Swim
When Love Comes
I Think I Do
2 Seconds
Everyone
Trick
Better Than Chocolate
Locked Up
Regular Guys
Criminal Lovers

 

POSTERS

Blow-up
Taxi driver
Rear Window
Raging Bull
Citizen Kane
Apocalypse Now
Romeo and Juliet
Batman Begins
The Great Escape
A Very Long Engagement
The Exorcist
Full Metal Jacket
Fight Club
A Nightmare Before Christmas
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Amelie
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Star Wars Trilogy
Million Dollar Baby
Back to the Future
Breathless (a bout de souffle)
A Clockwork Orange
The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Gladiator
E.T.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton version)
Kingdom of Heaven
Cabaret
Roman Holiday
Gone with the Wind
Once Upon a Time in America
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Goonies
2001: A Space Odyssey
Metropolis
La Dolce Vita
Barry Lyndon
The Godfather
Goodfelles
The Shawshank Redemption