An enthralling academic detective story (with a marked resemblence to one of Chandler's novels), The Long Embrace is 2007's finest book about Los Angeles.
A welcome addition to the University of Mississippi series of interviews with directors, Mankiewicz: Interviews continually draws fascinating material from the director with a little help from interviewers like Andrew Sarris and Michel Ciment.
Deftly sorting out a complicated political and artistic saga, Mann concentrates on the business issues, the postwar political environment and the emblematic indies to trace how films reflect the often dissident circumstances of their creation.
Originally published in 1979, this reissue of Anthony Mann (now expanded, restored and updated) remains the only serious book-length study of Mann's work in English.
As this Taschen volume makes clear, the Master of Suspense remains appealing to cineastes young and old, with 50-plus features underscoring his timeless ingenuity.
Author Gwenda Young makes the case that from the silent era to the golden age, Clarence Brown deserves a place among the giants.
Director Ernst Lubitsch, who was idolized by Wilder and Welles, is brought into sharp focus.
The making of George Stevens' Texas-sized epic is recounted in Don Graham's meticulously chronicled book.
As the newly scaled down yet no less comprehensive Taschen book Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made demonstrates, Kubrick was nothing if not a completist.