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Author: Saul Austerlitz |
Release Date: August 22, 2023
From the author of Generation Friends, featuring brand-new interviews with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, a surprising, incisive, and often hilarious book about the film that changed comedy, Anchorman It’s been nearly twenty years since Ron Burgu...
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Author: David Thomson | Narrator: David Thomson
Release Date: February 07, 2023
From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craft"Open to any page and you’ll become enthralled by the...tales...
Author: Ralph Macchio | Narrator: Ralph Macchio
Release Date: October 18, 2022
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn’t been a week Ralph Macchio hasn’t heard friendly shouts of “Wax on, wax off&rdquo...
Author: Erich Schwartzel | Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Release Date: February 08, 2022
"This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting."  — The New York Times Book Review “In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the ex...
Author: Robert Gottlieb | Narrator: Maria Tucci
Release Date: December 07, 2021
Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her.“Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlie...
Author: Wil Haygood | Narrator: Cary Hite
Release Date: October 19, 2021
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • BOOKLISTS' EDITOR'S CHOICE • ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“At once a film book, a history book, and a civil rights book.… Without a doubt, not only the very best film book [...
Author: David Thomson | Narrator: David Thomson
Release Date: March 23, 2021
From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film.Di...
Author: Jeanine Basinger | Narrator: Erin Bennett
Release Date: November 05, 2019
Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals--an essential audiobook for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.Leading film ...
Author: Geoff Dyer | Narrator: Roy MacMillan
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure sta...
Author: David Thomson | Narrator: David Thomson
Release Date: January 29, 2019
In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Explo...
Author: Adam Nayman | Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A playfully critical journey through the Coen brothers' filmographyFrom such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan...
Author: Nancy Schoenberger | Narrator: Kimberly Farr
Release Date: October 24, 2017
John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today.   For more than twenty years John For...