Esfir’ Il’iinichna Shub Translated and Edited by Keith Sanborn. My Life is the Cinema brings to English readers for the first time the memoirs and selected writings of Esfir Shub, the pioneering Soviet filmmaker whose archival works transformed the practice of documentary cinema. A comrade of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, Shub was among the…
Larry Cohen Foreword by John Landis. Larry Cohen was a one-of-a-kind filmmaker—a writer, director, and producer with a lifelong refusal to play by Hollywood’s rules. I Killed Bette Davis is his wildly entertaining confession from inside the guerrilla trenches of filmmaking, where stolen shots, enraged studio heads, and impossible stars were all part of a…
Peter Cowie In Flashbacks, Peter Cowie tells his story with the same clarity, curiosity and quiet authority that have made him one of cinema’s most respected chroniclers. From his postwarn childhood in the English countryside to decades spent in screening rooms, studios and film festivals around the world, Cowie reflects on a life shaped by…
Anthony Ray “Written when I was 21, this is my recollection of experiences I had as a 12- and 13-year-old. The events contained in this work led to my being traumatized for over fifty years.” June 10, 1950. 12-year-old Tony Ray leaves behind his single mother and their drab Manhattan apartment and flies to Los…
Peter Whitehead and John Sorensen This lively cinema dialogue — in the form of a cross-Atlantic email correspondence — investigates the idea of The Mystical Filmmaker. It is a complement to the films and fiction of Peter Whitehead, and exposes Whitehead’s marvelous gift for finding myriad connections between a host of subjects that are “in…
An unclassified dossier. A volatile archive. An incantation made of celluloid, ink and memory. An artifact hewn from the forgotten annals of a shadowed past. An unfiltered transmission from the liminal spaces between fact and myth. Brace yourself, dear reader, for this secret ledger. Packed with an eclectic assemblage of images, documents and texts, drawn…
Bruce Joel Rubin “Finding yourself on the fringe of human experience is a gift rather than a torment.” — Bruce Joel Rubin A powerful, heartfelt memoir by one of the most respected screenwriters of the modern era. Bruce Joel Rubin is a certified member of the Movie Brat generation and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of…
Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner Foreword by Sandy Lieberson Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the rise of…