Sharon Stone - The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to mak ...Show more
Debbie Reynolds - Unsinkable - A Memoir by Debbie Reynolds
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her brave, loyal, and loving new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie discovered that he had betrayed her emotionally and fina ...Show more
Walt Disney - The biography by Neal Gabler
$12.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
His classic films illuminated everyone's childhood. The theme parks are on every tourist itinerary. The movie empire is one of Hollywood's biggest players. Walt Disney is one of the few men who unquestionably changed our culture.Neal Gabler is the first author to have had complete access to the Disney A ...Show more
John Darling - An Australian Filmmaker in Bali by Graeme MacRae (Editor); Anton Lucas (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Acclaimed filmmaker John Darling lived in Bali through the 1970s and 1980s. During that time, he created the films that established him as the leading foreign filmmaker of Indonesia. This included Lempad of Bali, which celebrated the life and times of the astonishing Balinese artist Gusti Nyoman Lempad. ...Show more
The Gosden Years - A New Zealand Film Festival Legacy by Bill Gosden
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gosden was at the forefront of Aotearoa film culture from 1980 to 2019. The Gosden Years is a record of his enormous legacy as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival—the country’s leading annual cinema event and a constant wellspring of film discovery and appreciation. Conceived by ...Show more
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Memorabilia - The Vintage Years, 1928-1938 by Bernard C. Shine
$15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good
First and Last by Michael Frayn
$6.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Methuen Screenplay | Reading Level: very good
"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land's End to walk the length of his native land. He has never walked more than a dozen miles in his life before, his health is uncertain, his boots are new, and he is too d ...Show more
Ayoade on Ayoade - A cinematic odyssey by Richard Ayoade
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good
In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines himself fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation int ...Show more
Brave by Rose McGowan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - As featured in Ronan Farrow's CATCH AND KILL and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's SHE SAID"BRAVE works beautifully as a manifesto. It's a call to arms--not just against the specific men who mistreated McGowan and the men and women w ...Show more
Marilyn in Manhattan - Her year of joy by Elizabeth Winder
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In Manhattan, the most famous woman in the world can wander the streets unbothered, spend hours at the Met getting lost in art, and afternoons buried in the stacks of the Strand. Marilyn begins to live a life of the mind in New York; she dates Arthur Miller, dances with Truman Capote and drinks with Car ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Grace Kelly by Pierre-Henri Verlhac
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: A Life in Pictures | Reading Level: good
This is the first definitive, retrospective photo book published on a Hollywood icon. It is lavishly illustrated chronicle of a unique and glamorous life. An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywoods brightest stars, is already long overdue. This book will also coincide with two signific ...Show more