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  From the Atelier Tovar -...

  Guy Maddin

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  One of the Village Voice's Top 25 Books of 2003.
   
  Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary and the forthcoming The Saddest Music in the World. Few know, however, that he is just as gifted a writer, and his resolutely purple prose, as eccentric and enchanting as his film work, is a true delight.
   
  From the Atelier Tovar gathers, in one volume, the best of Maddin's writing: his journalism (originally published in the Village Voice, Cinema Scope, Film Comment and points beyond), unpublished short stories and film treatments (including the riotous Child Without Qualities), and selections, both lurid and illuminating, from the filmmaker's personal journals. Here are Maddin's feverish musings on hockey, the Osmonds, divas of the Italian silent cinema, Bollywood, his own twisted biography, and much, much more. What emerges finally is both a fragrant potpourri and a treasure trove, a singular portrait of this very unique artist.

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  Don't Stop Believin' - The...

  Erin Balser, Suzanne Gardner

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  The fictional high-school milieu of Glee — the wildly popular Fox television series that debuted in 2009 — is celebrated and dissected in this detailed companion to the series. The songs, the students, and the idiosyncratic teachers all come under affectionate scrutiny in this fan's compendium. The familiar dramas that beset the members of the McKinley High glee club, New Directions, have struck a chord with a wide Audience that ranges from tweens to 20-somethings and beyond.Glee watchers will relish this analysis of everyrelationship, fashion statement, insult, and triumph that is plumbed for greater meaning and nostalgic pleasure. The music that is such a key element of the show — a careful mix of show tunes and popular hits — is also thoughtfully discussed. Trivia, in-jokes, profiles of the actors,and a detailed synopsis of the show's first season make this an indispensable reference for the growing fan base of "gleeks" that are devoted to this fledgling television sensation.

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  The Wonders of Living Simply

  Toinette Lippe

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  Lippe, a natural ecologist, believes the whole earth is a cornucopia. "If you acknowledge that there is enough for everybody, then you don't have to hold on to everything in case you might need it, the way most of us do with things we haven't used for twenty years." She's author of Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life.

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  The Making of Life of Pi - A...

  Jean-Christophe Castelli

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  Diversely illustrated with 275 photographs and illustrations, The Making of Life of Pi tells the inside story of how renowned Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee brought Yann Martel's international bestseller to life as a 3-D film.With a rich, entertaining text and a wide variety of facts, anecdotes, visual portfolios, and sidebars sure to delight readers of all ages, The Making of Life of Pi follows the making of the film from pre-production through final cut. Of course, you'll meet Suraj Sharma, the sixteen-year-old unknown Indian high-school student who won the part of Pi although he had no acting experience and didn't even know how to swim—yet in the end performed all of his own stunts. You'll learn about the massive wave tank, custom-built for the film that replicated a vast, stormy ocean in all its moods, thanks to a complex and specially devised menu of wave and wind combinations, some really powerful machinery, and tons of water. You'll get to look inside the fifty-page fully illustrated "survival guide" that shipwreck survivor Steven Callahan created for Pi to consult on his raft. And you'll read about King, Themis, Minh, and Jonas, the four Bengal tigers used in the film—and discover how visual effects were able to create a seamless 3-D image of the tiger Richard Parker.A foreword by Yann Martel, an introduction by Ang Lee, and an incredible range of visual materials—fine art, vintage archival imagery, and commissioned portfolios by photographer Mary Ellen Mark and artist Alexis Rockman—supplement the film's storyboards, sketches, and stills, rounding out this highly experiential book for lovers of the novel and film viewers alike.

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  The World and His Wife

  Oliver Hailey

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  From the dawn of time to the turn of the millennium, the styles may change but the men and women living in them stay virtually the same. Join our ubiquitous couple in the as they traverse the eons in a time-bending cavalcade for all generations.

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  At Last the 1948 Show - Volume 5

  Tim Brooke-Taylor, Marty...

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  At Last the 1948 Show is a classic satirical TV series that prided and inspired Monty Python. Featuring Cambridge footlighters John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman, this is arguably the finest sketch comedy series ever produced, and certainly something you do not want to miss... 
  This volume features a compilation of classic sketches from the second series of the show, including: 
  -Shirt Shop-Nosmo Claphanger Game Show-Insurance for Accident-Prone Man-Uncooperative Burglars-Thuggish Ballet Supporters

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