Category: Arts & Literature
Movie Directors

High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess
Charles Fleming / Doubleday / May 1998

Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodriguez / Plume / September 1996

On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Ed Sikov / Hyperion / November 1998

All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger: The Shocking True Story of Troma Studios
Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn / Boulevard (Trd Pap) / August 1998

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
Vincent Lobrutto / Donald I Fine / March 1997

Gods of Death: Around the World, Behind Closed Doors, Operates an Ultra-Secret Business of Sex and Death: One Man Hunts the Truth About Snuff Films
Yaron Svoray, Thomas Hughes (Contributor) / Simon & Schuster / September 1997

James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters
James Curtis / Faber & Faber / June 1998

Sayles on Sayles
John Sayles, Gavin Smith / Faber & Faber / May 1998

The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney
Richard Schickel / Ivan R Dee, Inc. / May 1997

All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse
Martin Gottfried / Da Capo Pr / April 1998

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
John Gregory Dunne / Random House / February 1997

Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
John K. Waters / Thunder's Mouth Pr / December 1995

Steven Spielberg: A Biography
Joseph McBride / Simon & Schuster / May 1997

Walt Disney: An American Original
Bob Thomas / Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap) / May 1994

Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir
Leni Riefenstahl / Picador USA / February 1995

Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood
Todd McCarthy / Grove/Atlantic / May 1997

Company of Heroes: My Life As an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
Harry, Jr Carey / Madison Books / July 1996

Goldwyn: A Biography
A. Scott Berg / Riverhead Books / October 1998

Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation With Stig Bjorkman
Woody Allen, Stig Bjorkman (Editor) / Grove/Atlantic / November 1995

Weirdsville USA: The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch
Paul A. Woods / Plexus Pub / October 1997

Scorsese on Scorsese
Martin Scorsese, et al / Faber & Faber / October 1996

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
John Baxter / Carroll & Graf / October 1997

Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
Patrick McGilligan / St Martins Pr (Trade) / July 1997

A Biographical Dictionary of Film
David Thomson / Knopf / November 1994

How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
Roger Corman, Jim Jerome (Contributor) / Da Capo Pr / September 1998

Kieslowski on Kieslowski
Danusia Stok (Editor), et al / Faber & Faber / May 1995

The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood
Martha P. Nochimson / Univ of Texas Pr / November 1997

Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
Simon Callow / Penguin USA (Paper) / February 1997

Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen
Mary P. Nichols / Rowman & Littlefield / November 1998

Foster Child: An Intimate Biography of Jodie Foster by Her Brother
Buddy Foster, Leon Wagener / Signet / March 1998

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
David Thomson / Vintage Books / October 1997

Disney's World: A Biography
Leonard Mosley, Leonard Mosely / Scarborough House / October 1990

Gaffers, Grips, and Best Boys
Eric Taub / St. Martin's Press / February 1995

'If They Move... Kill 'Em!': The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
David Weddle / Grove/Atlantic / September 1994

Twentieth Century's Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood
George F. Custen / Basic Books / December 1997

David Lean: A Biography
Kevin Brownlow / St Martins Pr (Trade) / September 1996

Power to Burn: Michael Ovitz and the New Business of Show Business
Stephen Singular / Birch Lane Pr / August 1996

Dreaming Aloud: The Life and Films of James Cameron
Christopher Heard, Kathryn A. Exner / Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) / February 1998

Wake Me When It's Funny: How to Break into Show Business and Stay There
Garry Marshall, et al / Newmarket Press / July 1997

A Biographical Dictionary of Film
David Thomson / Knopf / November 1994

Magic Hour
Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese / Faber & Faber / September 1996

An Open Book
John Houston, John Huston / Da Capo Pr / April 1994

Bunuel
John Baxter / Carroll & Graf / April 1998

A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler
Jan Herman / Da Capo Pr / October 1997

The Cinema of Martin Scorsese
Lawrence S. Friedman, Lawwrence S. Friedman / Continuum Pub Group / February 1998

Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (Portraits of American Genius, No 3)
Hugh Kenner, Chuck Jones / Univ California Press / October 1994

John Ford
Peter Bogdanovich / Univ California Press / August 1978

Woody Allen: A Biography
Eric Lax / Vintage Books / July 1992

Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies
Stephen M. Silverman, Audrey Hepburn (Introduction) / Knopf / February 1996

Billy Wilder
Bernard F. Dick, Bernard E. Dick / Da Capo Pr / September 1996

Rebel Without a Crew; Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodriguez / Dutton Books / August 1995

David Lean: A Biography
Kevin Brownlow / St. Martin's Press / September 1997

The Fleischer Story
Leslie E. Cabarga / Da Capo Pr / May 1988

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate (Translator) / Penguin USA (Paper) / January 1994

Alfred Hitchcock (Pocket Archives Series)
Serge Kaganski / Distributed Art Publishers / May 1997

Lucio Fulci: Beyond the Gates
Chas Balun, et al / Access Pub Network / July 1997

Hollywood Trail Boss: Behind the Scenes of the Wild, Wild Western
Burt Kennedy, Max Evans / Boulevard (Trd Pap) / December 1997

Howard Hawks American Artist
Jim Hillier (Editor), et al / Indiana Univ Pr / March 1997

Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool
Jeff Dawson / Applause Theatre Book Pub / August 1997

The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini
Tag Gallagher / Da Capo Pr / December 1998

Quentin Tarantino: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
Quentin Tarantino, Gerald Peary (Editor) / Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt) / August 1998

Schrader on Schrader & Other Writings (Directors on Directors Series)
Paul Schrader, Kevin Jackson (Editor) / Faber & Faber / August 1992

Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller
Kenneth C. Kaleta / Univ of Texas Pr / February 1998

Conversations With Fellini
Costanzo Costantini (Editor), Sohrab Sorooshian (Translator) / Harvest Books / February 1997

Woody: Movies from Manhattan
Julian Fox / Overlook Press / January 1997

Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology
Frank Sanello / Taylor Pub / March 1996

Chaos As Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Juliane Lorenz (Editor), et al / Applause Theatre Book Pub / April 1997

Woody Allen at Work: The Photographs of Brian Hamill
Brian Hamill, et al / Harry N Abrams / October 1995

George Cukor: A Double Life
Patrick McGilligan / St. Martin's Press / June 1997

D.W. Griffith: An American Life
Richard Schickel / Limelight Editions / April 1996

Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
James Goodwin / Johns Hopkins Univ Pr / January 1994

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
David Thomson / Knopf / June 1996

The Films of Woody Allen (Cambridge Film Classics)
Sam B. Girgus / Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) / February 1993

Paik Video (Station Hill Arts Series)
Edith Decker-Phillips, et al / Barrytown Ltd / March 1998

Paul Verhoeven
Rob Van Scheers, et al / Faber & Faber / October 1997