Individual film directors Books
McFarland and Company, Inc. Sydney Pollack A Critical Filmography
Book SynopsisExamines the directorial career of Sydney Pollack. This work finds that his style is marked by deliberate pacing, ambiguous endings and metaphorical love stories. It also details his directing efforts on television, as are his production and acting credits.Trade ReviewThe most detailed filmography of Pollack's films available...very useful - Choice; ""a solid reference work...the most detailed filmography I have ever come across"" - Classic Images.
£20.89
McFarland & Company Art Directors in Cinema A Worldwide Biographical
Book SynopsisA biographical dictionary which includes not only the world's great and almost-great artists, but also the unjustly neglected film designers. It includes entries which consist of biographical information, an analysis of the director's career and films, and a filmography including mentions of Academy Award nominations and winners.Trade ReviewEasy to use, interesting to read - Booklist/RBB; ""solid...the scope is impressive...valuable - Film & History; ""Stephens is at his best showing readers how, when, and why an art director influenced the dominant visual style of a studio, of an era, and of a series of films"" - ARBA; ""very well written"" - Classic Images; ""illuminating...filled with original research"" - Past Times; ""encyclopedic...an admirable and useful reference tool"" - Monsters from the Vault; ""extensive"" - Psychotronic.
£32.39
McFarland & Company Maurice Tourneur The Life and Films
Book SynopsisFocuses on Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), the French and American director, actor, and theatrical manager. This work takes a look at his life and career in the film industry. It also features photographs of Tourneur and his film subjects.
£27.54
McFarland & Company Frank Borzage The Life and Films of a Hollywood
Book SynopsisBrings to readers a comprehensive treatment of Borzage, one of America's greatest, if largely forgotten, film directors. After an introduction that decries Borzage's dismissal by later critics and historians, this work shows how his approach to moviemaking reflected his Masonic beliefs. It includes 18 chapters that present Borzage's entire career.
£30.39
McFarland & Co Inc Hitchcocks Objects as Subjects
Book Synopsis Alfred Hitchcock''s imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and acting were, for him, subordinate to all of the technical aspects that made the audience scream. Focusing on onscreen objects in Hitchcock''s films, this study examines staircases, eyeglasses, lamps, doors, candles, cigarettes, buildings, monuments, statues and dozens of other props that the director treated as subjective protagonists, their roles nearly equal to the actors''. Examining each of the director''s 52 extant films, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of Hitchcock''s treatment of objects as subjects.
£20.89
McFarland & Company The Cinema of Tsui Hark
Book SynopsisTsui Hark, one of China's most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work offers a look at his place in Hong Kong and world cinema, his influences, and his thematic obsessions.
£23.74
McFarland and Company, Inc. Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre The Films of
Book SynopsisThe sound of chainsaws revving on 'haunted' Halloween trails has evoked untold screams since Tobe Hooper's 1974 ""The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"" hit the cinemas. This book presents an overview of Tobe Hooper's career. It offers chronological information on Hooper's television movies and miniseries.
£20.89
McFarland and Company, Inc. The Films of George Roy Hill rev. ed.
Book Synopsis As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two all-time, top-ten, box-office hits: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting (both starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman). A filmmaker with backgrounds in music, drama and television, he was a popular storyteller. His films reflect an ironic, bittersweet vision of life. The stories entertain, but the subtext is often disturbing. Hill felt that all of his major characters create an environment, a fantasy, an illusion, and then go on to make it happen. Individual chapters study in detail the art, craft and style of each of his films, including Period of Adjustment, Toys in the Attic, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Slaughterhouse Five, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, The Little Drummer Girl and Hill''s last, Funny Farm.
£27.54
McFarland & Company John Huston Essays on a Restless Director
Book SynopsisEncompassing a variety of topics relating to Huston's lifestyle, political activities and cinematic legacy, these new essays provide fresh analyses of films such as Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Misfits and Prizzi's Honor. Also included are revealing interviews with John's actress daughter Angelica Huston and film producer Wieland Schultz-Keil.
£27.54
McFarland & Company Self and Society in the Films of Robert Wise
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth analysis of the cinematic career of Robert Wise, whose directorial credits include West Side Story, The Sound of Music and The Day The Earth Stood Still. This study provides a new and complex perspective of Wise's films, one which will heighten the reader's appreciation for the range and depth of Wise's overall body of work.
£20.89
McFarland and Company, Inc. Italian Horror Film Directors
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McFarland & Co Inc Jacques Tourneur
Book Synopsis At least three of director Jacques Tourneur''s films--Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man--are recognized as horror classics. Yet his contributions to these films are often minimized by scholars, with most of the credit going to the films'' producer, Val Lewton. A detailed examination of the director''s full body of work reveals that those elements most evident in the Tourneur-Lewton collaborations--the lack of monsters and the stylized use of suggested violence--are equally apparent in Tourneur''s films before and after his work with Lewton. Mystery and sensuality were hallmarks of his style, and he possessed a highly artistic visual and aural style. This insightful critical study examines each of Tourneur''s films, as well as his extensive work on MGM shorts (1936-1942) and in television. What emerges is evidence of a highly coherent directorial style that runs throughout Tourneur''s works.
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson Essays on His Work
Book Synopsis Jim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of television series, films, specials, and other productions, even excepting the Muppets. This collection of essays delves into the rest of Henson''s body of work, including projects developed during his lifetime and those that represent his legacy. Covered here are Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Jim Henson Hour, Dinosaurs, Farscape, and more. Henson''s influence on both audiences and later productions remains palpable on screens large and small, as this collection attests.
£20.89
McFarland & Company Kozintsevs Shakespeare Films Russian Political
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of Grigory Kozintsev's two cinematic Shakespeare adaptations, Hamlet (Gamlet 1964), and King Lear (Korol Lir 1970). The films are considered in relation to the historical, artistic and cultural contexts in which they appear, as well as the contributions of Dmitri Shostakovich, who wrote the films' scores, and Boris Pasternak, whose translations were used in both films.
£23.96
McFarland & Company Nicolas Winding Refn and the Violence of Art A
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McFarland & Company The Gus Van Sant Touch A Thematic StudyDrugstore
Book SynopsisBeloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde. Examining his films thematically, this book finds consistency of vision in Van Sant's unique approach to cinema.
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McFarland & Co Inc Masters of the Grotesque The Cinema of Tim Burton
Book Synopsis The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their employment in the films of American auteurs Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch. The author argues that interpreting these directors'' films through the lens of the grotesque allows us1to situate both the auteurs and the films within a long history of the grotesque in art and aesthetics. This cultural tradition effectively subsumes the contribution of any artist or1genre that intersects it but also affords the artist or genre--the auteur and the genre filmmaker--a pantheon and an abundance of images, themes, and motifs through which he1or she can subversively represent the world and our place in it.Trade ReviewI must begin by confessing that Masters of the Grotesque is a book I wish had written. Masters of the Grotesque is, however, a better book than I ever could have done--more theoretically sophisticated, more incisive, more far-reaching. Weishaar is a gifted writer, able to wrestle big ideas down to earth, drag them out of that very-20th-century Plato's cave we know as a movie theatre and into the light, putting them to critical use and then plunging back into the cave once again, more than ready to persuade the still-imprisoned of his new understanding.--more theoretically sophisticated, more incisive, more far-reaching. Weishaar is a gifted writer, able to wrestle big ideas down to earth, drag them out of that very-20th-century Plato's cave we know as a movie theatre and into the light, putting them to critical use and then plunging back into the cave once again, more than ready to persuade the still-imprisoned of his new understanding.""--David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University.
£17.09
McFarland & Co Inc Behind the Scenes with Hollywood Producers
Book Synopsis We know what actors do. We know what writers do. But what does a movie producer do, other than arrange financing for films and accept Academy Awards? Featuring in-depth interviews with 14 top movie producers, including eight who have won Oscars for Best Picture, this book describes how they nurture a project from concept to casting to screen. They are entrepreneurs, essentially creating a new business every time they start work on a film. They possess an array of skills and talents and the resilience and the fortitude to not take no for an answer. The interviewees are Marc Abraham, Tony Bill, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Clint Eastwood, Taylor Hackford, Mark Johnson, Arnold Kopelson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Michael London, Fred Roos, Paula Wagner, Jim Wilson and Janet Yang.
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc Postmodern Auteurs Coppola Lucas de Palma
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewreadings of individual films move beyond superficial categories to examine thematic and stylistic concerns in a quasi-journalistic, quasi-academic way, drawing, in true postmodern fashion, upon both 'high' and 'low' sources--Choice; ""fascinating insights""--Burlington County Times; ""brief...illuminating essays""--Film Review
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McFarland & Company Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse
£23.96
McFarland & Company Film Alchemy The Independent Cinema of Ted V
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McFarland & Company Woody Allens Angst Philosophical Commentaries on
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewhe writes maturely, respectfully, intelligently…invaluable - Choice ""an intriguing philosophical analysis of the work of one of the world's great filmmakers"" - The Journal of Value Inquiry
£28.99
McFarland and Company, Inc. Women in the Films of John Ford
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McFarland & Company Larry Cohen The Radical Allegories of an
Book SynopsisA second edition of the only published study devoted to Larry Cohen, explaining his significance as a great American director. It covers all the director's films, television work and screenplay, and contains an updated interview with the director as well as with colleagues Janelle Webb Cohen, Michael Moriarty and James Dixon. The filmography and bibliography have also been updated.
£27.54
McFarland and Company, Inc. Preston Sturgess Vision of America Critical
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewdiscusses fourteen features, offering credits, lengthy synopses and readable commentary on each""-Classic Images
£20.89
McFarland and Company, Inc. Joseph L Mankiewicz Critical Essays with an
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewcomprehensive""-Choice
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McFarland & Company The Late Works of Hayao Miyazaki A Critical Study
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McFarland & Company Earth vs the SciFi Filmmakers 20 Interviews
Book SynopsisPerhaps no films attracted more rabid fans and less critical acclaim than black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies . The men and women who made the characters come to life are interviewed here, talking about their work, the behind-the-scenes action, and the impact the movies had on their careers.Trade Reviewone of the leading scholars in the horror field" - New York Times"the king of the monster hunters" - USA Today
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro
Book Synopsis Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), The Devil''s Backbone (2001), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Pan''s Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II (2008) and Pacific Rim (2013). He has also worked extensively as a producer, with several screenwriting credits to his name. As a novelist he coauthored The Strain Trilogy (2009-2011), which he also developed into a television series for FX in 2014. Del Toro has spoken of the primal, spiritual function of his art, which gives expression to his fascination with monsters, myth, archetype, metaphor, Jungian psychology, the paranormal and religion. This collection of new essays discusses cultural, religious and literary influences on del Toro''s work and explores key themes of his films, including the child''s experience of humanity through encounters with the monstrous.
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McFarland & Company Hayao Miyazakis World Picture
Book Synopsis Hayao Miyazaki has gained worldwide recognition as a leading figure in the history of animation, alongside Walt Disney, Milt Kahl, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Yuri Norstein and John Lasseter. In both his films and his writings, Miyazaki invites us to reflect on the unexamined beliefs that govern our lives. His eclectic body of work addresses compelling philosophical and political questions and demands critical attention. This study examines his views on contemporary culture and economics from a broad spectrum of perspectives, from Zen and classical philosophy and Romanticism, to existentialism, critical theory, poststructuralism and psychoanalytic theory.
£20.45
McFarland & Company Tim Burton Essays on the Films
Book SynopsisSince his early days at Disney, Tim Burton has possessed a unique talent and vision. This collection of new essays brings together scholarship on many of his popular films, his adaptations, his innovations in stop motion photography and his collaborative relationship with actor Johnny Depp, providing an in-depth exploration one of the most prominent figures on the pop culture landscape.
£20.89
McFarland & Company The World of Shaft A Complete Guide to the Novels
Book SynopsisMention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan. But Shaft actually made his debut on the printed page as the creation of a white novelist, Ernest Tidyman. Based on extensive research of Tidyman's personal papers, this book tells the story of Shaft from the perspective of his creator.Trade ReviewThis book is a must read for any fan of the Shaft books or movies, and scholars of seventies pulp fiction and cinema." - Pulp Curry blog, May 2016
£14.24
MY - University of Toronto Press Federico Fellini
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist.
£29.70
University of Toronto Press Gangster Priest
Book SynopsisWidely acclaimed as America''s greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian American subjects - Who''s That Knocking at My Door?, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, and Casino - as well as the documentary Italianamerican. In Gangster Priest Robert Casillo examines these films in the context of the society, religion, culture, and history of Southern Italy, from which the majority of Italian Americans, including Scorsese, derive.Casillo argues that these films cannot be fully appreciated either thematically or formally without understanding the various facets of Italian American ethnicity, as well as the nature of Italian American cinema and the difficulties facing assimilating third-generation artists. Forming a unifiTrade Review'Gangster Priest is a timely and essential contribution to Scorsese scholarship. In particular, Casillo accomplishes in-depth readings of some of the director's most well-known feature films, such as Casino, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and Who's Knocking at My Door? Overall, the volume is composed of fine analyses that stand on their own yet also complement one another and work as cohesive whole.' -- Dana Renga, Italian American Review: Winter 2011
£70.55
Tuttle Publishing Bruce Lee The Celebrated Life of the Golden
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Packed with tales about his youth in Hong Kong, his acting career in America, and his philosophies on fighting."--Maxim"[An] expansive collection of photos, from his Hong Kong childhood to fatherhood with son Brandon."--Men's Fitness"Childhood snapshots, behind-the-scenes Hollywood images, and rare candid photos combine to form a scrapbook of Bruce's whole life."--Inside Kung Fu
£21.30
Tuttle Publishing Bruce Lee The Celebrated Life of the Golden
Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all time Bruce Lee.
£15.46
Northwestern University Press The Authentic Death Contentious Afterlife of Pat
Book SynopsisLong before Sam Peckinpah finished shooting his 1973 Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, there was open warfare between him and the studio. In this scrupulously researched new book Paul Seydor reconstructs the riveting history of a brilliant director fighting to preserve an artistic vision while wrestling with his own self destructive demons.
£71.20
Northwestern University Press The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace
Book SynopsisAmid all the controversy, criticism, and celebration of Terence Malick's award-winning film The Tree of Life, what do we really understand of it? The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace thoughtfully engages the philosophical riches of life, culture, time, and the sacred through Malick's film.
£94.05
Northwestern University Press Michael Haneke The Intermedial Void
Book SynopsisProvides a new framework in which to interpret the films of Michael Haneke, including Funny Games, Caché, and others, and to show how the concept of intermediality can be used to expand the possibilities of film and media studies, tying the two more closely together.
£33.20
Northwestern University Press An Aesthetics of Injury
Book SynopsisExamines wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound - texts that aim not only to depict but also to inflict injury - Ian Fleishman reveals harm as an essential aesthetic strategy in ten exemplary authors and filmmakers.Trade ReviewAn incisive and provocative contribution to the history and theory of modern narrative since Baudelaire… Fleishman shows that the idea of an open wound as an allegoric dimension, or an ‘aesthetics of injury,' plays a vital and thus far neglected role in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature."" - Johannes Türk, author of Die Immunität der Literatur""Aesthetics of Injury is insightful, beautifully written, and compelling. It will help shift many discussions in literary, film and feminist studies."" - Kathleen Komar, author of Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation
£33.20
Northwestern University Press Godard and the Essay Film
Book SynopsisOffers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evolving genre through a groundbreaking examination of the vast and formidable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard.Trade Review“Godard and the Essay Film is a first-rate piece of scholarship that makes substantial contributions on a variety of topics, including the essay as literary and cinematic form, film and philosophy, and the study of the indispensable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard." —Michael Renov, author of The Subject of Documentary"Godard and the Essay Film is an exceptionally innovative and fresh study that manages to rethink one of the most important and challenging filmmakers in cinema history. In the process, Warner has also engaged one of the most important and prominent waves in modern filmmaking, the essay film. While there is a growing body of scholarship on this subject, Warner's more focused engagement offers keen new insights that extend beyond Godard's work." —Timothy Corrigan, author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, after MarkerTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Research in the Form of a Spectacle Chapter Two: A Critical Poetics of Citation Chapter Three: Refiguring the Couple: Love, Dialogue, and Gesture Chapter Four: To Show and Show Oneself Showing: Essayistic Self-Portrayal Coda Stereoscopic Essays for the New Century Notes Index
£29.71
Northwestern University Press Godard and the Essay Film
Book SynopsisOffers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evolving genre through a groundbreaking examination of the vast and formidable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard.Trade Review“Godard and the Essay Film is a first-rate piece of scholarship that makes substantial contributions on a variety of topics, including the essay as literary and cinematic form, film and philosophy, and the study of the indispensable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard." —Michael Renov, author of The Subject of Documentary"Godard and the Essay Film is an exceptionally innovative and fresh study that manages to rethink one of the most important and challenging filmmakers in cinema history. In the process, Warner has also engaged one of the most important and prominent waves in modern filmmaking, the essay film. While there is a growing body of scholarship on this subject, Warner's more focused engagement offers keen new insights that extend beyond Godard's work." —Timothy Corrigan, author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, after MarkerTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Research in the Form of a Spectacle Chapter Two: A Critical Poetics of Citation Chapter Three: Refiguring the Couple: Love, Dialogue, and Gesture Chapter Four: To Show and Show Oneself Showing: Essayistic Self-Portrayal Coda Stereoscopic Essays for the New Century Notes Index
£79.20
Northwestern University Press Hitchcocks People Places and Things
Book SynopsisArgues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents in Hitchcock's films with the aim of mapping the Hitchcock landscape cognitively, affectively, and politically.
£27.96
Scarecrow Press Stanley Donen The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series 5
Book SynopsisA clear and insightful analysis of the life and work of American director and coreographer, Stanley Donen.Trade ReviewAnalyzed with clarity, a minimum of jargon and much insight....A solid, pioneering work. * Los Angeles Times *
£60.30
Scarecrow Press King Vidor Directors Guild of America Oral
Book SynopsisVidor recounts his early days in Texas, his years at the birth of Hollywood, and his rise through the MGM Studios to become a prominent film director.
£67.50
Scarecrow Press The Films of Reginald Leborg Interviews Essays
Book SynopsisLeBorg, the quintessential Hollywood contract director, worked constantly during the 1940s and 1950s at such studios as Universal, PRC, and Monogram. With stills and a thorough filmography.Trade Review...a fascinating insight... * Samhain *
£57.95
Scarecrow Press Radical Juxtaposition Films of Yvonne Rainer The
Book SynopsisExamines the work of Yvonne Rainer, one of the central figures of avant-garde film. The comprehensive study surveys critical reaction and includes Rainer's critical writings, photos, full biographical information, a complete filmography, and bibliography.
£71.10
Rlpg/Galleys The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers
Book SynopsisMichael Powell was introduced to film relatively late in life, and feeling dissatisfied with what British films had to offer, he took his primary influences from American and German films. Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian emigre who was educated in the German film industry before fleeing from the threat of the Nazi party. These two men of diverse backgrounds would successfully collaborate on 16 films over a period of fifteen years, most often with their identities united as the Archers. The Archers'' collaboration began during World War II, where they attempted to identify the causes for which thousands were dying. Following the war, their focus was on art and why it was worth dying for. The results were such classics as Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, and The Tales of Hoffman. The Archers'' popularity waned in the mid fifties when the two men seemed to lack focus. Never popular with British critics, they ended their career with a pair of mediocTrade Review...reliable study along currently orthodox lines, with sagacious observations and some nicely disconcerting insights... * Cineaste *Salwolke writes with style and grace. Salwolke's bibliography of material on individual films is invaluable. His filmography is extensive, accurate and well worth having. Anyone interested in British cinema, particularly thinking of researching the subject, should be aware of this excellent book. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television *A conscientious, well-documented account of Powell's work. * Sight and Sound *I'm tremendously impressed by your book on Michael Powell. Well written, very interesting, not dry and tedious. Excellent work. -- Thomas Gifford, author of "The Assassini" and "The Wind Factor"Describes and analyzes the work of Michael Powell and his partner, Emeric Pressburger, who released 16 films in 15 years, from the beginning of their partnership until its end in 1956. * Booknews *...well-reported...it's great to see Powell receiving his due, and this is a welcome addition to the literature of his very special talents. * American Cinematographer *A scholarly study of the legendary Red Shoes director and his writer Emeric Pressburger. * Howard Maxford Film Review *
£67.50
