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Book Review
10 Dec 2011
Creative Essentials: Reading Screenplays – how to analyse and evaluate film scripts by Lucy Scher
Script reading is an important aspect of the filmmaking process. Lucy Scher's Creative Essential tells you all you need to know about reading and analysing screenplays.

Book Review
11 Jul 2011
Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult by Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes' book Cinema Italiano claims to be the complete guide to Italian cinema from classics to cult. Leo White reviews.

Book Review
15 Nov 2007
Cecil B. DeMille and The Golden Calf by Simon Louvish
Ready for his close-up: Simon Louvish biography of Hollywood's greatest director ever is (nearly) as epic as the films he made

Book Review
9 Aug 2007
Cassavetes Directs by Michael Ventura
The last picture show: Michael Ventura's book Cassavetes Directs offers a candid, emotional journey into Cassavetes' universe during the shooting of his last film, Love Streams

Book Review
6 Aug 2007
Close-Up 02 : Movies and Tone / Reading Rohmer / Voices in Film by John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (editors)
Steven Yates reviews the second instalment of Wallflower Press' Close-Up series

Book Review
3 Oct 2005
Chris Marker: Memories of the Future by Catherine Lupton
The mysterious filmmaker Chris Marker directed perhaps the classic underground short film, La Jetée, back in 1962, and went on to direct a string of obscure, experimental films – but almost nothing is known of the director's life. Hharlan D. Whatley reviews a new biography

Book Review
1 Aug 2005
César (BFI Classics) by Stephen Heath
Though best known for the Manon des Sources films (which he made in the 1980s), Marcel Pagnol's film career stretches right back to the beginning of the medium. Ben McCann reviews a new book about one of his earliest films, César

Book Review
3 Mar 2004
Creeping Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book by Edited by David Kerekes
Horror and science fiction has always attracted a peculiarly avid set of fans, devotees and experts, but Creeping Flesh is definitely one for the purists. The book collects a range of essays on some truly obscure sci-fi and horror films, but Paul Clarke thinks it's too smart for its own good

Book Review
23 Jun 2003
Cinema's Missing Children by Emma Wilson
The abduction of children is never an easy subject, but that doesn't mean it's off-limits. Antonio Pasolini reviews a new book which examines the ways in which cinema has tried to address the issue