David A. Price's well-researched history of Pixar is also a history of the long march of CGI, with stops along the way, including the war between Disney and Pixar, embodied here by Michael Eisner and Steve Jobs.
Harris' deeply researched account of the diverging fortunes of the five Best Picture nominees from 1968 provides a fascinating insider history of Hollywood in transition.
Containing interviews conducted between 1960 and 1983, Interviews demonstrates that Antonioni was, then as now, always one step ahead of his critics and interrogators.
With over 60 reviews of books about film, Film on Paper offers a rich survey not just of the books, but also of the Time magazine critic's capacious and splendidly contrarian mind.
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.