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  • Romy Schneider: Once Upon a Time

    Edited by Pierre Chambrin ...
    Series series Metvox Essentiels
    ROMY SCHNEIDER :ONCE UPON A TIME...Behind the sparkling smile of the most famous empress of the seventh art hides a murkier truth, made up of renunciations, incessant quests for freedom and painful metamorphoses. In this book, Romy Schneider’s career is not simply recounted: it is dissected in the light of a childhood whose shadows have shaped every gesture, every look in front of the camera.The ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Romy Schneider: The Biography

    by Marlon Thayne ...
    Romy Schneider died in Paris on May 29, 1982 — the most adored European actress of her generation.Her life began as a Viennese fairytale in the 1950s with Sissi, and ended in tragedy nearly thirty years later. What unfolded in between was one of cinema's most dazzling, heartbreaking journeys.Crowned a screen princess before she turned fifteen, Romy sparked a frenzy not seen since Shirley Temple. A ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romy Schneider

    A Star Across Europe

    by Marion Hallet ...
    The beautiful Austrian-born Romy Schneider was one of Europe's most popular film stars and a cult figure from the moment she played 'Sissi' (Empress Elisabeth of Austria) in the hugely popular Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s. Although Schneider died in 1982, she continues to be one of the most popular stars in European cinema history. This book analyses her impressive career to place her within a ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Romy Schneider Story

    by Carolyn McGivern ...
    Determined to tread her own path, Austrian film sensation, Romy Schneider was talented, honest, prickly, loving and ultimately tragic. The star of over sixty movies including the cult, "What's New Pussycat? "Bloodline", "The Assassination of Trotsky", "The Cardinal" and "The Victors", at the height of her fame she ranked alongside Bardot, Loren and Cardinale. Reviled by the German Press when she ... Read more

    $4.78 USD

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    In Breaking van Gogh, James Grundvig investigates the history and authenticity of van Gogh’s iconic Wheat Field with Cypresses, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Relying on a vast array of techniques from the study of the painter’s biography and personal correspondence to the examination of the painting’s style and technical characteristics, Grundvig proves that ... Read more

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  • Everything Is Cinema

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    From New Yorker film critic Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard presents a "serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey" of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age ( The New York Times).When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events... ... Read more

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  • A Truffaut Notebook

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    François Truffaut (1932-1984) ranks among the greatest film directors and has had a worldwide impact on filmmaking as a screenwriter, producer, film critic, and founding member of the French New Wave. His most celebrated films include The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Day for Night, and The Last Metro.A Truffaut Notebook is a lively and eclectic introduction to the life and ... Read more

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  • The Films in My Life

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  • Garbo

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  • Thank Heaven

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    One of the best-loved stars of classic American cinema tells all in this wry, funny, and poignant memoirLeslie Caron is one of the most cherished and admired international film stars of our time. She made her film debut with Gene Kelly in the classic MGM musical An American in Paris, created one of the most enduring roles in American musicals as Gigi, danced with Fred Astaire in Daddy Long Legs, ... Read more

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  • Dietrich & Riefenstahl

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  • New Waves in Cinema

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    The term New Wave conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s from the films of French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. The impact of the French New Wave continues to be felt, and its ethos of shooting in real places with nonprofessional actors and small crews would influence filmmakers as diverse as John Cassavetes, Martin Scorsese, and Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 movement, all ... Read more

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