Over the course of 50 years, legendary producer Walter Mirisch went from teenage theater usher to one of the most respected producers in Hollywood.

An oddly assembled, highly entertaining mess of a book, John Landis drives you out to rent every last one of the director's movies.

The most satisfying and epic movie biography of 2008 thus far, Brody's Everything is Cinema divides Godard's career into distinct creative periods, integrating the oft-told stories of the Nouvelle Vague with new research.

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.