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Film Titles Spring 2017 {IPG} Fabrizio Plessi Digital Wall Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Ferdinand Ullrich Summary ’Water, especially the sea, opens our thoughts.’ Since the late 1960s, Fabrizio Plessi (b. 1940), one of the most renowned conceptual and video artists, has addressed the element of water and, later, also the element of fire, which he views as symbols of temporality. With these, he facilitates a direct and impressive experience of the power of nature. The catalogue presents, among others, Plessi‘s work for the facade of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen with its alternating columns of blazing fire and masses of cascading water. Wienand Verlag 9783868323306 Pub Date: 4/1/17 Contributor Bio Ship Date: 4/1/17 Dr. Hans-Jürgen Schwalm is general director of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. He is organizer of $49.95/$67.95 Can./€38.00 numerous exhibitions and publications of 21st century art. Ferdinand Ullrich is director of the EU museum of the city of Recklinghausen since 1988. From 2009 to 2010 he was full-time professor at Discount Code: LON Hardcover the academy of Fine Arts in Münster. Since 2015 he is speaker for the RuhrKunstMuseen. 96 Pages Carton Qty: 6 Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions ART006000 10.8 in H | 13.3 in W | 0.7 in T | 3.1 lb Wt 100 Things Spider-Man Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die Mark Ginocchio Summary Every Spider-Man fan knows Peter Parker's origin story, knows about his clashes with the Green Goblin, and is eager to see actor Tom Holland don the red and blue suit on the big screen. But do you know the genesis of Venom or the Sinister Six? Have you ever tried Aunt May's famous wheatcakes? 100 Things Spider-Man Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans of the character. Whether you’re a die-hard comic book reader from the Silver Age or a new follower of the popular movies, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Writer and podcaster Mark Ginocchio has collected every essential piece of Spider-Man knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom! Triumph Books 9781629374024 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 6/1/17 Mark Ginocchio is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, corporate Ship Date: 6/1/17 publications, and websites such as CBR, ComicBook.com, WhatCulture, and Sequart. He is the $14.95/$19.95 Can. founder of the Chasing Amazing blog, which documents his quest to collect every issue of Amazing Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback Spider-Man comics, and is a co-host of the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast. He lives in Brooklyn. 336 Pages Carton Qty: 24 Art / Film & Video ART057000 Series: 100 Things...Fans Should Know 8.5 in H | 5.5 in W Film - March 2017 Page 1 {IPG} Julian Rosefeldt Midwest Ralf Beil Summary Julian Rosefeldt (b. 1965) is one of the most famous contemporary film artists. His installation Wienand Verlag Midwest shows a dismal container terminal. Car tyres, crushed cigarette packets and the mattresses 9783868323450 of a homeless man mark the setting before visitors reach a run-down drive-in cinema, where Pub Date: 4/1/17 Ship Date: 4/1/17 Rosefeldt’s film The Swap is presented: an action film parody about tough men, cars, the flow of $34.95/$47.95 Can./€24.80 money and goods and organized crime. The present volume documents the installation and delves EU deeper into its highly political contents. Discount Code: LON Hardcover Contributor Bio 96 Pages Since February 2015 Ralf Beil is the art director of the Kunstmusem Wolfsburg. Previously he was Carton Qty: 12 exhibition curator and conservator at the collection of painting and sculpture of Kunstmuseum Bonn Art / Film & Video and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne as well as director of the Institut Mathildenhöhe ART057000 Darmstadt. 8.8 in H | 11.8 in W | 0.5 in T | 1.5 lb Wt The Movie Making Book Skills and Projects to Learn and Share Dan Farrell, Donna Bamford Summary Do you want to take your smartphone videos up a notch? Learn how to make “artsy-looking” films on your cool new tablet? Or take a stab at more in-depth movie making with the family video recorder? If so, The Movie Making Book is for you! This clear, easy-to-follow guide includes fun games and mini-projects that teach all the techniques you need to get started in movies. Learn and practice basic shots such as establishing shots and close-ups; creative shots such as high and low angles; panning and tracking; special effects tricks; storytelling skills; the basic techniques of editing; and Chicago Review Press much more. Then move on to 14 more advanced projects—including making your own talk show, 9781613739150 superhero movie, video greeting card, and spy movie—to put the skills you learned to the test. Pub Date: 6/1/17 Ship Date: 6/1/17 $18.99/$25.99 Can. You don’t need fancy equipment or training to become a filmmaker. Just grab your phone, tablet, or Discount Code: LON video recorder and a friend of two; open this book; and get started making and safely sharing your Trade Paperback movies today! 144 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 0 Ages 7 to 12, Grades 2 to 7 Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford are the codirectors of Sparks, a film school for young people based Juvenile Nonfiction / in London. Together they have more than ten years’ experience in leading children’s film workshops Performing Arts and oversee Sparks’ courses and education projects. Since 2010, they have helped over 3,000 young JNF039030 filmmakers to produce their own movies. 6.6 in H | 8.5 in W Film - March 2017 Page 2 {IPG} One For My Baby A Sinatra Cocktail Companion Tom Smith Summary The book introduces us to Sinatra's life and art seen from an unconventional point of view: Ol’ Blue Eyes’ prodigious appetite for alcohol. Drinking was an integral part of his character, his lifestyle and (by extension) his creative output. This book also functions as a practical cocktail manual, containing more than 30 detailed recipes for preparing and presenting fancy drinks he was known to enjoy himself; as well as providing information on some of Sinatra’s own personal drinking lore and some of the traditions he followed or inspired. There are also accounts of some of his favorite watering holes (from legendary saloons such as Toots Shor’s and Jilly’s to Villa Capri or Monte’s Venetian Peter Owen Publishers Room), profiles of famous drinking buddies (such as Humphrey Bogart or Mike Romanoff) and a 9780720620160 selection of drinking stories. The book begins with an essay looking at the role drink played Pub Date: 5/1/16 throughout his life and ends with a consideration of his most enduring persona—The Last Saloon Ship Date: 5/1/16 $19.95/$23.95 Can./£12.99 Singer. In between there are chapters on Classic Bourbon drinks, the Martini, Exotic Booze, Hangover UK Remedies and The ... Discount Code: LON Hardcover Contributor Bio Tom Smith performed throughout the 1980s with cult bands The Fire Hydrant Men and Cas Carnaby 160 Pages Carton Qty: 32 Five and was front man for Gee Mr. Tracy. In 2000, after a dozen years as a label manager for Cooking / Beverages independent record labels he became a freelance writer. He has written biographies of Blondie and CKB006000 The Ramones and written regularly on music. His artwork has appeared on various posters, album 8 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.8 in T | and single covers and his 2011 exhibition Jockey Full of Bourbon centered around paintings of Frank 0.9 lb Wt Sinatra, Elvis and Tom Waits. Earlier this year he exhibited with his wife Helen under the joint title The Smiths. War and Peace Tie-In Edition to Major New BBC Dramatisation Leo Tolstoy, Andrew Davies, Louise Maude, Aylmer M... Summary Tolstoy’s beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia’s war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. Following the rise and fall of some of society’s most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever. Contributor Bio Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). Andrew Davies is an Emmy Award-winning novelist and screenplay writer. Louise and Aylmer Maude were English translators of Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography. BBC Books Other Formats 9781849908467 eBook - 10/5/2011 9780307806581 Pub Date: 4/1/16 Paperback - 12/2/2008 $20.00 9781400079988 Ship Date: 4/1/16 $14.95/£7.99 UK Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback 994 Pages Carton Qty: 12 Fiction / Classics FIC004000 8 in H | 5 in W | 1.8 in T | 1.5 lb Wt Film - March 2017 Page 3 {IPG} Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Summary What HAS happened to little Alice? Taking 'shrooms, hanging out with hookah smoking ne'er do wells and being dragged to court. That's gonna be one hell of a hangover! Contributor Bio Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), was an author, logician and mathematician. Oldcastle Books 9781843443971 Pub Date: 4/1/16 Ship Date: 4/1/16 $12.95/£4.99 UK/€10.24 EU Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback 160 Pages Carton Qty: 40 Fiction / Classics FIC004000 Series: Pulp! The Classics 7 in H | 4.5 in W | 0.4 in T | 0.2 lb Wt The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Summary Poor old Gregor.