Resisting Hollywood

New in at Cinema Books: Undiscovered by Debra Winger, $23.00 cloth.  Musings of the award winner actress about Hollywood, moving movies and getting away from it.  A very personal book of memoir, poetry and insights about life. The private life and thoughts of a public person.

Errol Flynn Swashbuckler

Back in at Cinema Books: Lawrence Bassoff Collection Presents Errol Flynn The Movie Posters $35.00 large paperback.  Best films of Errol Flynn book with magnificent reproductions of the posters and lobby cards from each Flynn movie.  Includes section on posters of great epic movies for all of us fans of the genre.  180 color reproductions.  Foreward by Stewart Granger

Sale at Cinema Books

Everything 20% off at Cinema Books June 23 through June 30, 2008.  All books, posters, stills, magazines and cards at Cinema Books are on sale now.  Please come join us.

Steven Segal Look Out

New in at Cinema Books: Seagalogy A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal by Vern, $14.95 paper.  Vern, the ‘out-law film critic’ of Ain’t it Cool News website has the book of the year.  An in-depth study of the world’s only aikido instructor turned movie star/director/writer/blues guitaritst/energy drink inventor-film auteur Steven Segal.  Remember Under Siege,  and then there are his direct to tv movies too. Your trip down memory lane.

Time for another shot

New in at Cinema Books: Setting Up Your Shots Great Camera Moves Every Filmmaker Should Know by Jeremy Vineyard illustrated by Jose Cruz, second ed., $22.95 paper. This classic collection of  Illustrations of common cinematic techniques created in the 1990’s is now revised with new images and references to hundreds of films demonstrating the camera angles, editing techniques, composition. Learn the language of film fast.

MM Big City Gal

New at Cinema Books Marilyn in New York, $29.95 the photographs of Ed Feingersh, paper.  1955, Marilyn fled to New York city to avoid the constraints of Twentieth Century Fox.  She went to class with Lee Strassberg, made Chanel No. 5 advertisements, rode a pink elephant in Madison Square Garden.  Black and white full page photographs records all these events.  Marilyn public and private in NYC.

From Disney to the Grinch

New at Cinema Books: Stepping into the Picture Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble by Robert J. McKinnon, $20.00 paper.  Noble started with Disney on Snow White.  He became Chuck Jones’ right-hand man on such projects as What’s Opera, Doc? and famously did the sets for How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The visual landscape of the golden age of Warner Bros. cartoons was the vision of Noble and is now forever part of ours.

Suicide Blonde

New at Cinema Books: Carole Landis A Most Beautiful Girl by Eric Gans, $30.00 cloth.  1940’s blonde movie star in One Million Years BC, Orchestra Wives, Four Jills in a Jeep, I Wake Up Screaming.  Worked constantly in USO tours during the Second World War.  Her failed love affair with Rex Harrison and depression led to  suicide in 1948.  She is often mentioned in comparison to the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe fourteen years later.  What do you think? Is there a similarity?

Johnny Depp Redo

New at Cinema Books:Johnny Depp A Kind of Illusion revised and updated by Dennis Meikle, $14.95 paper.  New edition of the the life of the high school drop out who found his way to the top of Hollywood stardom.  Nightmare on Elm Street started it all and he continued his striking success through the recent Tim Burton film Sweeny Todd.  He is the unusual combination of character actor and heart-throb.

Hoods with Attitude

New at Cinema Books: No Borders No Limits Nikkatsu Action Cinema by Mark Schilling, $15.95 paper.  The Japanese film studio Nikkatsu from 1954 - 1971 was famous for its gangster movies.  Dominated by renagade hoods, disgruntle bikers and vixens.  The films starred actors like Joe Shishido and directors like Seijun Suzuki.  Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill is inspired by these movies. Color photographs throughout with interviews and profiles of the stars and directors and filmographies make this an attractive little volume.