This annual guide on global film-making offers a unique survey of trends, achievements and personalities during the past year. As usual the guide selects five Directors of the Year for appraisal: Danny Boyle, Takeshi Kitano, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, David Mamet and Spike Lees. This edition has updated sections on film festivals, music and archives.

Variety International Film Guide, 1991

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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Variety International Film Guide, 1993

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DramaCharacters: 3 male, 3 female Simple Set Zelda Preston inherits her father's pecan farm located just steps from the U.S. border with Mexico and struggles to maintain it without help from undocumented workers. Ines Sandoval, a dangerously ill young mother-to-be, and her sister Angie lobby for the return of their recently deported family member Tia Rosita. Angie's husband, Carlos, defends to his community and family his choice to work for the Border Patrol. And Cooper Daniels, an industrial pecan grower and head of the civilian border surveillance group, Citizens United, forges ahead with the building of a volunteer fence. These forces collide in Ground, which examines the very human costs of our immigration issues, and the strength of personal beliefs about family, home, and civil human rights in the face of our shifting political and social landscape. Two acts."Breathtaking in every way." -- Charles Whaley, TotalTheater.com"...Tackles the hot-button issue of illegal immigration." -- David Shreward, Back Stage

Ground

Literature & Fiction

Lisa Dillman

Dramas & Plays

FIRST SAMUEL FRENCH EDITION. 1990 trade paperback, Rudy Behlmer (America's Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes). A view of all the machinations, foibles, and happy accidents behind the making of some of America's greatest films. - Amazon

Behind the Scenes

Behlmer, Rudy

Memo from David O. Selznick

A compilation of the renowned producer's memos, letters, and telegrams provides insight into his personality as well as his dominant role in fashioning the motion-picture industry

Behrman, S.N.

Selznick, David O.

Book by Hines, Terrance, Vaughan, Suzy

Actor Succeeds: Career Management for the Actor

Hines, Terrance

Vaughan, Suzanne

George Antheil ( July 8, 1900 - February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds - musical, industrial, mechanical - of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for films and, eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles (one accurately predicted the development and outcome of World War II), an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns. In 1941 he co-patented a "Secret Communications System" with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronise random frequencies, referred to as frequency hopping, with a receiver and transmitter. This technique, which is now known as spread spectrum, is now widely used in telecommunications.

Bad Boy of Music

Antheil, George

This important and informative book: Comedy Writing Step by Step by Gene Perret is a gem. It's a book on how to write and sell your sense of honor. The author offers the readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a very broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of your work,

Comedy Writing Step by Step

Gene Perret

Filled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, this only full-length biography of filmmaker and cinematic visionary George Lucas has been updated with a substantial new chapter that discusses the revamped Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, the Star Wars prequels, the filming of the first installment, and the controversial ways in which Lucas's approach and success continue to alter the landscape of the film industry.

Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas

Biographies & Memoirs

Pollock, Dale

Arts & Literature

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