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Le MacGuffin, c'est la librairie de cinéma à Paris. C'est la boutique pour acheter des livres sur le cinéma à Paris.
Our shop, is the bookstore to buy books about cinema in Paris.
La catégorie biographies est un incontournable pour les passionnés de cinéma. Découvrez la vie fascinante des plus grands acteurs et réalisateurs, leurs parcours, leurs secrets, leurs anecdotes. Plongez dans l'histoire du septième art à travers les destins exceptionnels de ceux qui l'ont façonné.
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By: Hors CollectionBardot, la légende
35,00 €L'hommage d'Henry-Jean Servat à BB à l'occasion de ses 90 ans, dans un album-souvenir enrichi de nouvelles photos peu connues Petite-fille de son siècle, Brigitte Bardot nous a appris plusieurs décennies durant, à aimer le cinéma, la grâce, la fraîcheur, la drôlerie, l'amour, l'engagement et la lutte. Avec, parfois, des excès mais aussi un débordement de franchise, d'honnêteté et d'inconscience qui la rendent attachante ou irritante. Brigitte Bardot a distillé des mots, régenté une mode, organisé un monde qui n'est plus, après son passage, le même qu'avant. Un beau soir de l'année 1973, Bardot a décidé d'arrêter le cinéma et de ne plus jamais montrer sa tête face à une caméra. -
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By: L'ARCHIPELInoubliable B. B.
24,95 €Retour en image sur la riche carrière et la vie tumultueuse d'une star, Brigitte Bardot avec cet album magnifique dont les photos sont commentées par B.B. elle-même.
Elle fut " le rêve impossible des hommes mariés ", pour reprendre la formule de Roger Vadim, son pygmalion et premier mari. Brigitte Bardot a été l'actrice française la plus célèbre au monde. Icône des sixties, elle incarna une certaine idée de la beauté et fit rêver des millions d'admirateurs.
En vingt et un ans de carrière et quarante-six films, cette actrice instinctive aura tourné pour les plus grands réalisateurs : Godard, Clouzot, Vadim, Malle, Boisrond, Duvivier, Autant-Lara... -
![Polémique, Politique, Pouvoir : Conversations avec Gideon Bachmann]()
By: Editions CritiquesPolémique, Politique, Pouvoir : Conversations avec Gideon Bachmann
18,00 €Les conversations entre Pier Paolo Pasolini et Gideon Bachmann (photographe, réalisateur et journaliste américano-allemand) réunies dans ce livre sont longtemps restées confidentielles et n'ont été publiées en Italie qu'en 2015. Ce document exceptionnel a été enregistré au fil d'une amitié de quinze ans allant des débuts de Pasolini en tant que réalisateur avec Accattone (1961) jusqu'à son dernier film, Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome (1975). Structurés autour de trois thèmes fondamentaux chez Pasolini (polémique, politique et pouvoir) ces dialogues déploient de riches réflexions autour de l'art, la religion, le langage, la société, la poésie, l'histoire, et bien sûr le cinéma.
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![A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood]()
By: ABRAMS BOOKSA Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
16,95 €The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve.
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![Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography]()
By: Applause BooksNot the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography
16,95 €Draws on personal interviews and private records to trace the Golden Age Hollywood star's life and career from her own perspective, in an intimate portrait of Crawford that includes coverage of her four marriages, three Academy Award nominations, and notorious relationship with her adopted children. 50,000 first printing. -
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By: Lyons PressDouglas Fairbanks: The Fourth Musketeer
29,95 €Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, Douglas Fairbanks was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old. His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new energy to the medium. -
![The Epic Films of David Lean]()
By: Scarecrow PressThe Epic Films of David Lean
64,95 €Widely regarded as one of cinema's most accomplished directors, David Lean helmed such classics as Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist. He twice received the Academy Award for best director, and two of his films, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia won the Oscar for best picture. Both are featured on the American Film Institute's Top 100, with Lawrence of Arabia at number seven. -
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By: Applause BooksRage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott
29,95 €George C. Scott (1927-1999) born in Wise, Virginia, created some of the 20th century's most memorable performances on stage and screen – the cunning prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, the manipulative gambler in The Hustler, the buffoonishly warmongering chief of staff in Dr. Strangelove, and, of course, the brilliant and rebellious Patton. He also played Willy Loman, Richard III, Mussolini, Scrooge, Fagin, and countless others. But his offstage life was as filled with drama and controversy as any of the lives he portrayed with such intensity. -
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By: Edinburgh University PressThe Films of Elaine May
27,95 €Spanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently experienced a long-overdue renaissance. Although she made only four films ― A New Leaf (1971), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Mikey and Nicky (1976) and Ishtar (1987) ― and never reached the level of acclaim of her frequent collaborator Mike Nichols, May’s work is as enigmatic, sophisticated and unceasingly fascinating as her own complicated, reluctant star persona. This collection focuses both on the films she has directed, and also emphasises her work with other high profile collaborators such as John Cassavetes, Warren Beatty and Otto Preminger.
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![Starring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon]()
By: Applause BooksStarring Joan Crawford: The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon
39,95 €Joan Crawford: the name has an enduring fascination. Forty-five years after her death, Crawford remains a familiar icon in pop culture and the entertainment world. Certainly the camp bathos of Mommie Dearest has played a part in her continued relevance. But it is ultimately her work and career themselves that account for her remarkable longevity in the culture. From her first film in 1925, to her rise to stardom in 1928, and on to the hit films she appeared in through the 1960s, she continually molded and remolded herself, crafting an indelible image and ensuring her place in the American pantheon. -
![Bruce Willis: Celebrating the Cinematic Legacy of an Unbreakable Hollywood Icon]()
By: Applause BooksBruce Willis: Celebrating the Cinematic Legacy of an Unbreakable Hollywood Icon
24,95 €On a nondescript Wednesday morning in the waning days of March 2023, one of the biggest movie stars on the planet called it quits. No press conference had been organized, the Hollywood trades received no advance notice, and there was a conspicuous lack of the fanfare that usually accompanies such bombshell announcements. -
![Stella!: Mother of Modern Acting]()
By: Applause BooksStella!: Mother of Modern Acting
28,95 €Arthur Miller decided to become a playwright after seeing her perform with the Group Theater. Marlon Brando attributed his acting to her genius as a teacher. Theater critic Robert Brustein calls her the greatest acting teacher in America. At the turn of the 20th century – by which time acting had hardly evolved since classical Greece – Stella Adler became a child star of the Yiddish stage in New York, where she was being groomed to refine acting craft and eventually help pioneer its modern gold standard: method acting.
