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L.A. Confidential - The Screenplay (Paperback): Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential - The Screenplay (Paperback)
Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Based on the Novel and with an Introduction by James Ellroy

L.A. Confidential

Now a Major Motion Picture from Warner Bros.

Los Angeles in the early '50s. A booming city anxious to shed its small-town skin. A city being touted as the metropolis of the future, L.A. is practically paradise on earth. That's the image. The reality is something different. From its fabulous mansions to its sizzling nightclubs, it's a city of corruption, double-dealing, and dangerous passions. A horrific mass murder shatters the simmering facade as three cops, each with his own private agenda for solving the case, are inextricably linked in a dangerously tightening spiral where justice and truth may cost them everything.

Based on James Ellroy's epic masterpiece, this screenplay of L.A. Confidential is being published to coincide with the release of the Warner Bros. film starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Kim Basinger, and Danny DeVito.

L.A. Confidential has the critics raving!

"A flawless ensemble cast and style to burn ... boiled down beautifully from James Ellroy's labyrinthine novel."

-Janet Maslin, New York Times

"An electrifying thriller ... L.A. Confidential brings the rancid thrill of corruption cracklingly alive."

-Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"Jazzy, stylish, smashing film noir ... with a surprise in every scene."

-Rex Reed, New York Observer

"Expertly written ... rich and clever ... one of the best films of the year."

-Jeffrey Wells, L.A. Times Syndicate

"Terrific entertainment, as funny as it is nasty .... This may be the best noir storytelling since Chinatown."

-David Thomson, Esquire

"An irresistible treat, with enough narrative twists and memorable characters for a half-dozen films .... L.A. Confidentialis an almost overwhelming reminder of the pleasures of deeply involving narratives in the old Hollywood sense."

-Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety

Trojan Eddie - A Screen Play (Hardcover): Billy Roche Trojan Eddie - A Screen Play (Hardcover)
Billy Roche
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A major release from Initial films for Channel Four starring Stephen Rea and Richard Harris. Award-winning writer Billy Roche and director Gillies Mackinnon create a strange compelling world on the edge of society Eddie is a small-town hawker who dreams of a business of his own. Treated as little more than an errand boy by his employer John Power, the godfather of the local traveller community, his modest ambitions seem far beyond his grasp until Power becomes obsessed with a young traveller girl, Kathleen. On the night of their wedding Kathleen elopes with Power's nephew, Dermot, and GBP11,000 in dowry money. Eddy aids their escape and finds himself inextricably embroiled in the violent consequences..."A feisty flavourful script from Billy Roche...Trojan Eddie will please audiences still in search of old-fashioned storytelling values" Screen International

Drehbuchforschung - Perspektiven auf Texte und Prozesse (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2022): Jan Henschen, Florian Krauss,... Drehbuchforschung - Perspektiven auf Texte und Prozesse (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2022)
Jan Henschen, Florian Krauss, Alexandra Ksenofontova, Claus Tieber
R1,839 Discovery Miles 18 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Die Drehbuchforschung ist ein junges, sich rasch entwickelndes internationales Forschungsfeld. Der Sammelband fuhrt Forschungen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum zusammen, die sich mit dem Drehbuch als schriftliches Artefakt und als Teil des Produktionsprozesses auseinandersetzen. Neben grundlegenden theoretischen Konzepten der Drehbuchforschung stehen historische und archivbasierte Analysen sowie gegenwartsbezogene Problemstellungen im Vordergrund. Praxisnah finden ausserdem Akteure und Ablaufe der Drehbuchentwicklung sowie Fragen der Dramaturgie Beachtung. Der Sammelband verschafft somit einen UEberblick uber die Bandbreite interdisziplinarer Ansatze des Forschungsfeldes und veranschaulicht das Erkenntnispotential der aktuellen Drehbuchforschung.

Jane Austen's Persuasion  - A Screenplay By Nick Dear (Paperback): Jane Austen Jane Austen's Persuasion - A Screenplay By Nick Dear (Paperback)
Jane Austen
R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Single Drama Jane Austen's classic novel is the story of Anne Elliot. Engaged eight years previously to a young navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, she allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, and that she had better prospects. The scene opens some seven years after Anne has refused the love of her life when Frederick Wentworth returns from the sea, in search of a wife. Nick Dear's critically acclaimed screen play was first screened on BBC2 in April 1995 and was subsequently released worldwide as a feature film.

Big Night (Paperback, St Martin's Griffin ed): Joseph Tropianio, Stanley Tucci Big Night (Paperback, St Martin's Griffin ed)
Joseph Tropianio, Stanley Tucci
R433 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant and pointed look at Old World vs. New World values and provides a rueful assessment of the American Dream. In a New Jersey town, two Italian immigrant brothers stuggle to keep their restaurant afloat. Includes recipes.

Dada and Surrealist Film (Paperback, Mit Press Ed): Rudolf E. Kuenzli Dada and Surrealist Film (Paperback, Mit Press Ed)
Rudolf E. Kuenzli
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's "L'Etoile de mer," and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives.

Beautiful Thing - Screenplay (Paperback, New Edition - New ed): Jonathan Harvey Beautiful Thing - Screenplay (Paperback, New Edition - New ed)
Jonathan Harvey
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Premiering at the Bush theatre in 1993, "Beautiful Thing" was released as a feature film by Channel Four films in 1996 directed by Hettie Macdonald and featuring Meera Syal.

The story explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality, and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate.

Four Weddings and a Funeral - Three Appendices and a Screenplay (Paperback, 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed): Richard Curtis Four Weddings and a Funeral - Three Appendices and a Screenplay (Paperback, 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed)
Richard Curtis
R415 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The hilarious, Academy Award-nominated screenplay that features six old friends, three disastrous receptions, a tongue-tied priest, and the role that made Hugh Grant the world's favorite bumbling bachelor.

Toasted by romantics and cynics, critics and fans, Four Weddings and a Funeral grossed more than $250 million worldwide, garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and was unanimously pronounced the romantic comedy of the 90s.

Richard Curtis's smart, irreverent, and brilliantly crafted screenplay will delight fans of the movie, as well as screenwriters and film students. From the first spoken line (see page 7) to the last ("I do"), it's a jubilant celebration of friendship, romance, and good humor.

Brownbread and War: Two Plays (Paperback): Roddy Doyle Brownbread and War: Two Plays (Paperback)
Roddy Doyle
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle come these two colorful plays. both set in the North Dublin suburb of Barrytown. In Brownbread, three young men kidnap a bishop but soon come to realize--when the U.S. Marines invade--that their brilliant adventure is nothing more than a colossal mistake. War is set at the Hiker's Rest, a pub where two trivia addicts meet every month to answer questions posed by Denis trhe quizmaster who hates wrong answers and shoots to kill. These earthy, exuberant works show why The New York Times Book Review says Doyle's "versatility and brio...may shock the neighbors, but...you can't take your eyes off him."

The Brute and Other Farces (Paperback, New Ed): Anton Chekhov, Eric Bentley The Brute and Other Farces (Paperback, New Ed)
Anton Chekhov, Eric Bentley
R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

All the farces of Russia's greatest dramatist are rendered here in the classic lively translations which audiences and scholars alike applaud on the stage and in the classroom. The blustering, stuttering eloquence of Chekhov's unlikely heroes has endured to shape the voice of contemporary theatre. This volume presents seven minor masterpieces: Harmfulness of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Brute, Marriage Proposal, Summer in the Country, A Wedding, The Celebration.

The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky, v.1 - Screenplays (Paperback): Paddy Chayefsky The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky, v.1 - Screenplays (Paperback)
Paddy Chayefsky; Introduction by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A collection of the screenplays of Paddy Chayefsky which is part of a four-volume set of his work. The screenplays contained in this volume are Marty, The Goddess and The Americanization of Emily.

Shoot the Piano Player - Francois Truffaut, Director (Paperback): Peter Brunette Shoot the Piano Player - Francois Truffaut, Director (Paperback)
Peter Brunette
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

When it appeared in 1960, the inspired fun of Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player shocked and delighted critics and audiences around the world. Its sudden shifts of tone and mood, its willful play with genre stereotypes, and its hilarious in-jokes clearly signaled that Jean-Luc Godard's equally innovative Breathless of the same year was not a fluke. The two films heralded the arrival of the so-called New Wave, sharing with other New Wave films an insistence on low-budget, location shooting and, above all, on cinema as the personal statement of an author. These films had a tremendous impact on all cinematic practice. Peter Brunette's introduction to this book gives us new insight into the film, based in part on revisualizing it in terms of recent postmodern and poststructuralist thinking. He argues, in effect, that Truffaut was one of the directors who paved the way for a postmodern aesthetic. The volume also contains a complete and accurate continuity script of the film (based on the authoritative, wide-screen version), a series of interviews with Truffaut (including one by Helene Laroche Davis, previously unpublished), a large number of reviews and essays, a filmography, and selected bibliography. Peter Brunette is a professor of English and film studies at George Mason University. He is the author of Roberto Rossellini and co-author of Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory.

Women on the Verge - Seven Avant Garde Plays (Paperback): Rosette C. Lamont Women on the Verge - Seven Avant Garde Plays (Paperback)
Rosette C. Lamont
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This anthology gathers together recent work by the finest and most controversial contemporary American women dramatists. Collectively, this magnificent seven seeks to break the mold of the well-wrought psychological play and its rigid emphasis on realisticsocio-political drama. Includes: Occupational Hazard (Rosalyn Drexler) * Us (Karen Malpede) * What of the Night? (Maria Irene Forne) * Birth and After Birth (Tina Howe) * and more.

Imitation of Life (Paperback, illustrated Edition): Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer Imitation of Life (Paperback, illustrated Edition)
Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer
R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were "Magnificent Obsession," "All That Heaven Allows," "The Tarnished Angels," "Written on the Wind," and "Imitation of Life" (made in 1958, released in 1959).

Because of the special stamp he put on his melodramas, Sirk's best works transcend the constraints of their genre. In them, he both exemplified and critiqued postwar, conservative, materialistic life and its false value systems. There is much in Sirk, particularly in "Imitation of Life," that is of interest to us today. The time seems to be right for a new look at the film, its reception amidst scandal over the affairs of its star--Lana Turner--the relationships between its mothers and daughters, the tensions between its men and its women, the friendships between its black and white women, and the ambiguous, controversial approach of Sirk to his material.

This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer.

Screenplays of the African American Experience (Paperback): Phyllis Rauch Klotman Screenplays of the African American Experience (Paperback)
Phyllis Rauch Klotman
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection by screenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voice which has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. Phyllis Rauch Klotman introduces each screenplay provides a biographical sketch of the filmmaker, and lists the casts and production credits for each film: Ganja and Hess, Killer of Sheep, Losing Ground, Illusions, A Different Image, and Sidewalk Stories.

Jacob's Ladder (Paperback, Annotated edition): Bruce Joel Rubin Jacob's Ladder (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Bruce Joel Rubin
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From the hit movie directed by Adrian Lyne, this is the original script with over 100 photos. From Rubin's introduction: The script presented here is not my initial screenplay but the final draft completed just before shooting. While close to the original, some significant scenes have been changed or cut. You will find them in the final chapter.

Don Siegel's ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Paperback): Albert J. La Valley Don Siegel's ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Paperback)
Albert J. La Valley
R1,078 Discovery Miles 10 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is a low-budget science fiction film that has become a classic. The suspense of the film lies in discovering, along with Miles, the central character (played by Kevin McCarthy), who is "real" and who is not, and whether Miles and Becky (played by Dana Wynter) will escape the pod takeover. As the center of the film moves outward from a small-town group of neighbors to the larger political scene and institutional network (of police, the FBI, hospital workers), the ultimate question is whether "they" have taken over altogether. Although Invasion can be interpreted in interesting ways along psychological and feminist lines, its importance as a text has centered primarily on political and sociological readings. In his introduction to this volume, Al LaValley explores the politics of the original author of the magazine serial story on which the film is based, Don Siegel; and of its screenwriter, Daniel Mainwaring. And he looks at the ways the studio (Allied Artists) tried to neutralize certain readings by tacking on an explanatory frame story. The commentary section includes readings by Stephen King, Peter Biskind, Nora Sayre, and Peter Bogdanovich. A section of postproduction documents reproduced here (many for the first time) includes many written by Wanger and Siegel. The volume also contains two previously unpublished framing scripts written for Orson Welles. For students and individual enthusiasts, the contextual materials are particularly interesting in showing how crucial the postproduction history of a film can be. A filmography and bibliography are also included in the volume. Al LaValley is the director of film studies at Dartmouth. He is the author of many articles on film and editor of Mildred Pierce in the Wisconsin screenplay series.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback, Reissue): Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback, Reissue)
Tennessee Williams
R125 Discovery Miles 1 250 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

First & Last (Paperback): Michael Frayn First & Last (Paperback)
Michael Frayn
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

One spring morning, a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land's End to walk the length of his native land. He has never walked more than a dozen miles in his life before, his health is uncertain, his boots are new, and he is too diffident to talk to anyone he meets along the way.

His slow, solitary progress up the spine of Britain is watched by an unseen audience--his family and friends at home. How far will he get before he is forced to give up? Is he being heroic or merely selfish?

As the days of his absence go by, the old alliances and quarrels inside the family shift and alter. What emerges is a story about the arbitrariness of human endeavor, the tenacious complexity of human relationships, one man's glimpse of the country he lives in, courage, and love.

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds."--"The Times"

"First and Last" was directed by Alan Dossor in a production for BBC television with Joss Ackland as the walker.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - The Illustrated Screenplay (Paperback): Charles McKeown The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - The Illustrated Screenplay (Paperback)
Charles McKeown
R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The complete screenplay and credits with dozens of photos from the 1998 film. "A carnival! A wonderland! A weekend with nine Friday nights! Terry Gilliam's lavish dreams are beyond those of mere mortals." - Harlan Ellison

Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks, Director (Paperback): Gerald Mast Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks, Director (Paperback)
Gerald Mast
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This film is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favourite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes. Criticized by some reviewers when it was released for its dependence on a prepostorous plot employing comic cliches and stereotypes, few recognized it as a potential classic. The introduction of this book gives the production history of the film. It also provides a biographical sketch of Hawk's career. The original story by Hagar Wilde, on which the film is based, is reprinted as well. Also included are an interview with Hawks by Joseph McBride, reviews, essays by Stanley Cavell, Peter Wollen and Gerald Mast and a filmography.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (Paperback): V.W. Wexman Letter from an Unknown Woman (Paperback)
V.W. Wexman
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The fifth title in the Rutgers Films in Print Series, "Letter from an Unknown Woman" is directed by Max Ophuls and based on the novella by Stefan Zweig. It is the story of Lisa, a young girl who rejects the constricting life of her small town and family in order to dedicate her life to a musician, Stefan. The film's elegant fin-de-siecle Viennese setting, lyrical camera work, dispassionate and ironic point of view, and fine performances by Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan elevate what could have been a mere tearjerker into one of Ophuls's finest works.

This volume provides a detailed transcription of the 1948 film. Notes appended to the film's continuity script detail all the significant differences between the finished film and the shooting script.

Wexman's introductions to each of the book's sections discuss the history of the film's reception and provide an overview of the central issues the film has raised. A cross section of commentary by well-known critics attests to the film's enduring position as a central text for cinema study. These essays acknowledge the film's significance as a preeminent example of Ophuls's art, as an important woman's film, and as a representative of the classic Hollywood style. A biographical sketch of Ophuls, the entire Zweig novella, a bibliography and other background materials are also included.

Plays by Steve Carter (Paperback): Carter Steve Carter Plays by Steve Carter (Paperback)
Carter Steve Carter
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Savages/Shakespeare Wallah - Two Films by James Ivory (Paperback, New edition): James Ivory Savages/Shakespeare Wallah - Two Films by James Ivory (Paperback, New edition)
James Ivory
R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Introductions, the motion picture treatments, credits and screenplays for these two movies by James Ivory.

Marriage of Maria Braun - Director Rainer Fassbinder (Paperback): J. Rheuban Marriage of Maria Braun - Director Rainer Fassbinder (Paperback)
J. Rheuban
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"The Marriage of Maria Braun" is the fourth volume in the Rutgers Films in Print Series and the most contemporary of those to appear in it thus far. Because of the enormous influence of New German Cinema and the importance of Fassbinder himself, the film is already considered a classic. "Maria Braun" is its director's attempt to recount and assess postwar German history through the personal example of his main character, played brilliantly by Hanna Schygulla. It is also a tribute to the Hollywood directors of the women's movies of the thirties and forties. Maria, and in the loose allegory Fassbinder has constructed, Germany itself, in their cold acquisitiveness and materialism, melodramatically rise from the ashes of World War II only to veer toward an inevitable doom that takes the film full circle, recalling the film's opening shots of a city reduced to rubble.

This volume contains the editor's introduction, a chronology of the the years 1943-1954, a biographical sketch of Fassbinder, the full transcript of the film as released, notes on the shooting script, interviews with the scriptwriter and director, commentary on Douglas Sirk by Fassbinder, reviews, commentaries by Thomas Elsaesser and Sheila Johnston, a filmography, and a bibliography.

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