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Cahiers du cinéma started with a monthly magazine of almost mythical status. Founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Lo Duca and Léonide Keigel, Cahiers du cinéma changed the course of cinema for ever when it created the auteur concept and spawned the French New Wave. Early staff writers included Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol.

Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1928–99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director, a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25, after which the power and originality of his work soon brought him box-office success. In the 1960s he lived and worked in London...

David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying Eraserhead (1977). With Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) and Lost Highway (1997) Lynch breathed new life into the sensory experiences of film audiences and disrupted narrative...

Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the success of Taxi Driver in 1976, which also marked the start of his long collaboration with Robert De Niro, he has continued to draw endless inspiration from his Italian- American roots...

Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation of the studios. As a fan of special effects, and entirely attuned to the shift towards younger film audiences, he took entertainment to new heights with films such as Jaws (1975)...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Woody Allen (USA, b. 1935) has been a major comic director since the 1970s. Writer, director and actor, his self-portrayal as a neurotic, intellectual, sex-obsessed, Jewish New Yorker seeking comfort in psychoanalysis brought him immense popular success and acknowledged status as a writer ( Manhattan , 1979; Deconstructing Harry , 1997). In the 2000s he left New York to work in Europe, winning over...

Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema  as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrileña in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with  transsexuals, neurotics Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown , 1988) and even drug-addicted nuns ( The...

Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the  representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged as a director and storyteller after working as an animator for Disney.

Francis Ford Coppola (USA, b. 1939) is the oldest of the generation of 'movie brats', including Scorsese and Spielberg, who breathed new life into the Hollywood of the 1970s. He revived the glory of the studio age with the legendary Godfather saga (1972 – 90), explored the soul of America at war in Vietnam with Apocalypse Now (1979) and has directed some of the greatest actors, including Brando...

Clint Eastwood (USA, b. 1930) is a veteran among the grand masters of contemporary American cinema, whose rise through the system took a highly unusual form. After playing iconic roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, he returned to Hollywood and underwent a controversial reincarnation as the ultraviolent cop Harry.

Whether it's through banter, trash talking, the perfectly timed barb, a witty observation or the crude but effective sledge or counter-sledge, Aussies make taking the piss an art form, especially in the sporting arena. Here, from the MCG to the SCG, golf courses and racing tracks, comes the best witticisms, classic insults and brutal take-downs to ever cross the lips of our favourite sportspeople...

What has been made public so far about WikiLeaks is only a small fraction of the truth. With his insider knowledge, Daniel Domscheit Berg is uniquely able to tell the full story.

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead is a hilarious and revealing collection of celebrity interviews by Neil Strauss, the bestselling author of The Game and The Dirt .  Strauss has been a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine and the New York Times , giving him access to a wide variety of major celebrities.

In this book he:

It was a meeting of the agency's top people to find an advertising theme for Panasonic, a major new Japanese electronics firm. Suddenly the new $50,000-a-year creative supervisor leapt to his feet in a frenzy of simulated inspiration. 'I've got it!' he cried, 'I see this big headline: FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO GAVE YOU PEARL HARBOR!'