Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors)

10 best books like Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors) (Terry Gilliam): The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, Another Fine Myth, Myth Directions, Orson Welles, Vol. 1: The Road to Xanadu, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam V. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut, Tricks of the Mind, The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers, Lynch on Lynch

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

Author	Robert E. Howard
ISBN	0345483855

Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellanea drafts, notes, maps by author.
Cimmeria poem
1 The Phoenix on the Sword 1932
2 The Frost-Giant's Daughter 1976
3 The God in the Bowl 1952
4 The Tower of the Elephant 1933
5 The Scarlet Citadel 1933
6 Queen of the Black...

Another Fine Myth

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441013465

“C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.”

Skeeve

used to be a magician apprentice until an assassin (who paid for the deed with his life right away) brought an untimely end to his master, but not before the latter summoned a demon.
“The Demon curled its lips back, revealing...

Myth Directions

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441013848

This review is dedicated to Iceland team of UEFA Euro 2016. Guys, you showed everybody you do not have to be a high-paid pro to play a good game.


“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

Every chapter of...

Orson Welles, Vol. 1: The Road to Xanadu

Author	Simon Callow
ISBN	0140254560

“A splendidly entertaining, definitive work.”—Entertainment Weekly

In this first installment of his masterful biography, Simon Callow captures the chameleonic genius of Orson Welles as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here is Welles’s...

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Author	Paul M. Sammon
ISBN	0061053147

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging,...

Quentin Tarantino: Interviews

Author	Gerald Peary
ISBN	1578060516

Not since Martin Scorsese with Mean Streets in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino. In many ways, Tarantino is the paradigmatic 1990s success story: from high school dropout, toiling anonymously in a California video...

The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam V. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut

Author

Jack Mathews

(Applause Books). The totally restored, revamped and researched blow-by-blow recounting of the most spectacular title bout in the blood-soaked history of Hollywood. "This book documents in rare detail the back-room haggling and the attempted ego-bashing that is part of the movie business." Gene...

Tricks of the Mind

Author	Derren Brown
ISBN	1905026382

Derren Brown's amazing television and stage performances have entranced and amazed millions. His baffling tricks and stunning illusions have set new standards of what's possible, as well as causing controversy. Now, for the first time, he reveals the secrets behind his craft.





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The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers

Author	Cullen Bunn
ISBN	1934964603

THIS IS NOT THE OLD WEST AS WE KNOW IT.

In the passing shadow of the Civil War, defiant Confederate General Oleander Hume waits to be let loose, too evil and warped to die, too mad with bloodlust to let go of his black magic.

He hungers for his lost and most precious possession, an ancient...

Lynch on Lynch

Author	David Lynch
ISBN	0571220185

David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing...

Myth Conceptions

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441013627

Skeeve and Aazh were minding their own business in an inn they ended up owing as a result of the events of the first book. Their leisure time was interrupted by a soldier who brought an invitation to the great and powerful magician Skeeve (ha!) to accept a position of a court magician in a nearby kingdom....