The Aliens have invaded

New in at Cinema Books: The Invaders A Quinn Martin TV Series by James Rosin, $17.95 paper. New episode guide book to the 1960’s tv series about alien invasion starring Roy Thinnes. Interviews with the creator, star, writers, directors and plenty of pictures of Thinnes with guest stars Jack Lord, Gene Hackman, James Daly, Susan Strasberg, Diane Baker, Anne Francis etc.

Super Gals as Mythic

New in at Cinema Books: Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors Superwomen in Modern Mythology by Jennifer K. Stuller, $17.00 paper. Wonder Woman, Powder Puff Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer are super heroines who for the last 70 years have powered their way through comics, movies and television shows. Stuller details the differences between how women and men are depicted as heroic in modern myth.  We read about the adventures of Emma Peel, Sydney Bristow, Charlie’s Angels and many other super gals.

Thelma Schoonmaker at Scarecrow Video

Oscar winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker will appear at Scarecrow Video in Seattle on the afternoon of  Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010.  She is the editor of films such as Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Gangs of New York. Ms. Schoonmaker is also the widow the the late film director Michael Powell.

Dance, man dance

New in at Cinema Books: Famous Movie Dance Stars Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney, $6.99 paper.  All those memorable stars who danced into our hearts: Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes,  Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point, Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing, Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom, and even Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.

Box Office Blockbusters

New in at Cinema Books: George Lucas’s Blockbusting A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success edited by Alex Ben Block, $29.99 paper. Big new reference book on the blockbuster movies from 1910 through 2009. Plenty of box office information updated in equivalent 2005 dollars.

Movies teaching us to think

New in at Cinema Books: The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film edited by Steven M.Sanders, $19.95 paper. New in paperback this collection of essays on Blade Runner and the enigma of identity, The Day the Earth Stood Still and extraterrestrial visitation and Metropolis and brave new world. Other essays on The Matrix  the cave and cognito, 2001 a philosophical odyssey and picturing paranoia in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

The Charmer

New in at Cinema Books: Star How Warren Beatty Seduced America by Peter Biskind, $30.00 cloth. Warren Beatty used his undoubted charm on both women and Hollywood execs to gain control. Bonnie and Clyde turned Hollywood on its head and from there he was off and running.  Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Oscars for an individual film and he did it twice: Heaven Can Wait and Reds. But let’s not forget the women in his life: Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Michele Phillips, Madonna and Annette Benning.

Tim Burton’s Alice

New in at Cinema Books: Disney Alice in Wonderland The Visual Guide $16.99 cloth.  Attractive new DK book with great images of the characters both-live action and stop motion  in the new Tim Burton film of Alice in Wonderland.  Johnny Depp as the always frantic Mad Hatter.

Claude Rains, the voice

New in at Cinema Books: Claude Rains An Actor’s Voice by David J. Skal with Jessica Rains, $19.95 paper.  Now in paper the biography of the one greats of  Hollywood. Skal writes with the help of Rains’ daughter Jessica. Tribute to this memorable star  of Casablanca, The Invisible Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Now, Voyager, Phantom of the Opera and Notorious.

Filmming now at Pike Place Market

New production of Ozu film Late Autumn is being shot right now . Pike Place Market area of downtown Seattle. Western Ave side. Trailers and equipment there now. Shooting schedule Feb. 2-5, 2010.  Thanks for the information from reader of this blog.