The Films of Budd Boetticher

The Films of Budd Boetticher
Author: Robert Nott
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476635218

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Budd Boetticher (1916-2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who could--with the right material and drive--create a minor Western film classic as easily as he could kill a bull. Yet pain and passion naturally mixed in both endeavors. Drawing on studio archives and featuring insightful interviews with Boetticher and those who worked with him, this retrospective looks at each of his 33 films in detail, covering his cinematic career from his days as an assistant's assistant on the set of Hal Roach comedies to his last documentary some 45 years later.

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher
Author: Gary D Rhodes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474419046

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One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With influential figures like Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood acknowledging Boetticher's influence, and with growing academic interest in his work, Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career, from a range of international scholars. Looking at celebrated films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945) and Behind Locked Doors (1948), this book also addresses Boetticher's influential television work on the James Garner series Maverick, and Boetticher's continuing aesthetic influence on contemporary TV classics like Breaking Bad.

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher
Author: Gary D Rhodes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474419046

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One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With influential figures like Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood acknowledging Boetticher's influence, and with growing academic interest in his work, Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career, from a range of international scholars. Looking at celebrated films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945) and Behind Locked Doors (1948), this book also addresses Boetticher's influential television work on the James Garner series Maverick, and Boetticher's continuing aesthetic influence on contemporary TV classics like Breaking Bad.

Budd Boetticher: The Western

Budd Boetticher: The Western
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1969
Genre: Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN:

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Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood

Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood
Author: Jim Kitses
Publisher: British Film Institute
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781844570508

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When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like the original, written in a graceful, penetrating and absorbingly readable style.

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson
Author: Michael R. Pitts
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476610355

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This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work. The great Charles Laughton once said Bronson "has the strongest face in the business, and he is also one of its best actors." Pretty high praise for an actor who, though loved by fans worldwide, has been consistently underestimated by critics. Bronson's career has spanned five decades, from such television appearances in The Fugitive, Rawhide, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel as well as the telemovie A Family of Cops (1995) and its two sequels. He will long be remembered for his role as urban vigilante Paul Kersey in the Death Wish films. Bronson is one of the most enigmatic, and also most recognizable, of all film stars.

Making Movies with Orson Welles

Making Movies with Orson Welles
Author: Gary Graver
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0810882299

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In 1958, soon after his arrival in Los Angeles, Gary Graver caught a showing of die recently released Touch of Evil. Upon viewing the B classic, Graver decided he wanted to be a director and spent many years honing his craft, as both a cinematographer and a director, not to mention writer, actor, and producerùmuch like his idol, Orson Welles. In 1970, when Graver learned that Welles was in town, he impulsively called the director and offered his services as a cameraman. It was only the second time in Welles's career that he had received such an offer from a cinematographer, the other from Gregg Toland who worked on Citizen Kane. Book jacket.

Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin
Author: Dwayne Epstein
Publisher: IPG
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1936182416

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The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles—such as his chilling titular villain in The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One—very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.

Dvd Savant

Dvd Savant
Author: Glenn Erickson
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2004-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0809510987

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A compilation of selected review essays from Erickson's DVD Savant internet column.

Transcendental Style in Film

Transcendental Style in Film
Author: Paul Schrader
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-05-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520969146

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With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. The new edition updates Schrader’s theoretical framework and extends his theory to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia), Béla Tarr (Hungary), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), among others. This key work by one of our most searching directors and writers is widely cited and used in film and art classes. With evocative prose and nimble associations, Schrader consistently urges readers and viewers alike to keep exploring the world of the art film.