Today we’re announcing a 15% holiday sale on all of the books made to accompany a half-century's worth of Locarno Film Festival retrospectives. From 1982 to 2024, these original productions were filled with rigorously researched original essays on the subjects in question by some of the most prominent international writers about cinema.
Whether that is an in-depth auteur study of filmmakers like Powell & Pressburger, George Cukor, Otto Preminger, Orson Welles, or Sam Peckinpah, or a broader investigation on a national cinema, as with the volume defending West German cinema after the war, or on renowned production houses like Titanus, responsible for some of the greatest post-war Italian films, or Columbia Pictures, the Hollywood studio known for its eclectic masterpieces in a variety of genres.
Books are available in English, French, German or Italian. Sale ends 6 January, 2025 while stocks last.
Discover the full selection here.
This brand-new volume features essays by acclaimed writers like Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kim Newman, Imogen Sara Smith, David Thompson, Farran Smith Nehme, Chris Fujiwara, and many others. Together, they examine the particularities of Columbia Pictures in relation to what is generally known as the Genius of the System. Illustrated with hundreds of rare stills, the stories are as much in the images as in the words. Once upon a time there was a brilliant exchange between art and commerce, between the system and the artist.
An in-depth exploration of film production in Mexico from the 1940s to the 1960s, three decades of exceptional creativity populated by screen gods and goddess and extraordinary filmmakers that have inspired subsequent generations of moviegoers. This single edition is available in English and Spanish.
Admired by many cinephile filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to John Carpenter, Jacques Tourneur still remains somewhat unappreciated. Only his great horror or science-fiction movies (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, Curse of the Demon) are still widely beloved. This illustrated volume, written by specialists from different countries, offers you a chance to rediscover the filmmaker's work through a new lens.
Cinema in the young Federal Republic was varied, combative, and lively surprisingly different from how established views and judgements describe it. Superficial and inconsequential? Unwilling to address urgent social problems or wartime guilt? Orientated towards kitsch? A very different picture emerges from the 33 texts in this book which were written for the occasion of the 2016 Festival del film Locarno.
This book, published on the occasion of the retrospective by the Locarno Film Festival in 2001, is an eclectic collection of voices and views, by the known and not-so-known, that presents a cross-section of Asian Americans – such as John Woo or Tsui Hark – who were working in the American cinema at that point.
