In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner’s original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand ? copies now sell on the collector’s market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition. Described as ‘the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner’s special effects’, this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead. First Edition
Award-winning film director, animator, and actor Terry Gilliam has been one of the most original, controversial, and successful filmmakers of the last three decades. Since 1969, when he became the only American among the otherwise all-British Monty Python team. Terry Gilliam’s work has won plaudits and acclaim for its originality and imagination. His films are renowned for the quality of performances from some of Hollywood’s top acting talent, such as Robert de Niro, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp. For the first time, this book traces thirty years of the work and art of Terry Gilliam, from his pre-Python days through to the astounding adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, released in 1998. Using Gilliam’s own drawings, storyboard and scripts, this book builds to a complete overview of the director’s work, examining in detail his striking visual sense ad labyrinthing stories of Man against bureaucracy (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys), triumphant tales of imagination winning over mediocrity (Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King) and, of course, something completely different (Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each other, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they’re surprised… and curious. Their parents are all clear on one point—not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother’s good graces. But when the cousins arrive on the island, it’s immediately clear that she has different plans for them. And the longer they stay, the more they realize how mysterious—and dark—their family’s past is. The entire Story family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t over—and this summer, the cousins will learn everything.
Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line. You think you know a person . . . Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone-no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her new-much younger-husband? The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of time, and the one person in the world who can help is the one person she least wants to ask. With sparkling prose and razor-sharp insights, bestselling author Chris Pavone delivers a stunning and sophisticated international thriller that will linger long after the surprising final page.
The finale to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you’ll never think of good girls the same way again… Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle… and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears…
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters’ breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.
Altman, Truffaut, Friedkin, Mankiewicz, Chabrol, Golik, G. R. Hill, Schlesinger, Forman, Gavras, Girault, Pakula, Coppola, Nichols, Pollack, Tarkovski, Aldrich, Hitchcock, Fonda, Bogdanovich, Peckinpah, Fosse, Bertolucci, Tati, Papić, Bergman, Visconti, Vrdoljak, Zafranović, Mimica, Wenders, Cohen, Rodriguez, Allen, Kieslowski, Burton, Parker, Lynch, Sedlar, Brešan i drugi, te njihovi filmovi, prave su zvijezde ove zbirke kratkih filmskih kritika poznatoga hrvatskog novinara, urednika Prvog i Trećeg programa Hrvatskog radija i filmskog kritičara.
Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. A marvel of scholarship, a delight to read, and an essential gloss on the Jeffersonian legacy.
Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She’s also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It’s hard to make friends when you’re the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn’t have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that’s behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected…but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead… Previously published as 20th Century Ghosts
The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his most solid, most brilliant work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions. Science has abandoned Man for the State. As every citizen knows only too well, war is peace. To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, I love you. The other is O’Brien, who tells him, We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak’s complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller. Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak’s alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003–2004 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams essay Person-to-Person, Williams’ notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author’s life. One of America’s greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright’s perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.
Priručnik za smanjenje tjelesne težine, ali i za cjelovito održavanje zdravlja nastao je temeljem 15-godišnjeg trenerskog iskustva autorice koja primjerima iz prakse te pričama o vlastitim krizama i izazovima potiče čitatelje na razmišljanje i djelovanje. Autorica u prvom dijelu knjige govori o detoksikaciji, tjelesnoj aktivnosti i prehrani, dok u drugom dijelu iznosi pretpostavke za duhovni razvoj – voljeti, vjerovati, zahvaliti, oprostiti i živjeti u tom trenutku kako bi i vlastitom tijelu bilo bolje.
Jednom, ne tako davno imala sam sve. Sve što ljubav jest. Bili su to dani obasjani suncem, ispunjeni radošću, sa zvjezdanim sjajem u očima, dok su srca u zagrljaju šaputala o nadi i snovima, živeći istinsku ljepotu. Svoju sam bajku ispisivala otiscima u srcu, predivnim i vječnim. Sve dok jednog dana, iznenada, nije nestalo čarolije i snova… Moja priča o gubitku djeteta, jedinog… Iz knjige Rajski projekt anđela Jadranke Ježek
Knjiga se bavi proučavanjem fotografije kao medija koji prenosi informacije od autora fotografskih slika do njegove publike i za to koristi svoj vlastiti vizualni kôd koji je potrebno dubinski razumjeti kako bi komunikacija autora i publike bila potpuna. Svojim sadržajem nadovezuje se na prvo izdanje iz naše Edukativne biblioteke, knjigu Promišljati fotografski i nadograđuje njezin sadržaj. Kôd fotografske slike namijenjen je prvenstveno zahtjevnijoj publici zainteresiranoj za promatranje fotografija i estetsko, sadržajno, tehničko i medijsko dekodiranje.
Filmološki priručnik i udžbenik Nacrt filmske genologije na enciklopedijski način sažima dosadašnje spoznaje posvećene pitanjima klasifikacije filmskih vrsta – rodova, žanrova i stilova. Iako se u svakodnevnoj novinskoj, kinematografskoj ili televizijskoj praksi razvrstavanje filmova provodi prema čvrstim i postojanim shemama, teorijsko promišljanje problematizira filmsku genologiju iz više aspekata, uvažavajući i evolucijske promjene na tome području, promjene o kojima Hrvoje Turković iznosi posve osobne i izvorne uvide.
