A portrait - both loving and complex - of screenwriter and director Billy Wilder. It is enhanced by taped conversations with Wilder's friends, among them, Gloria Swanson, William Holder, Ginger Rogers, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon, Jimmy Stewart and Shirley MacLaine.

Since his death in 1989, John Cassavetes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero - a maverick loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning 30 years. Carney's book presents Cassavetes through his own words - passionate about life and art.

This study of Fritz Lang by an estabished historian of cinema, combines personal insights - Eisner and Lang were friends - with a deep historical grasp of Lang's roots in German cinema. He long maintained an unsentimental and often brutal vision of human relations. A filmography is included.

This collection of conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into Welles' radio, theatre, film and television work, and Hollywood producers, directors and stars. The book also includes Welles' revealing memo to Universal about his artistic goals for Touch of Evil .

This is a work of cultural criticism that explores the enduring power that Hitchcock's imagination has exerted - and still exerts - over us. Not just a biography or a study of his films, this work should fascinate and delight the millions of Hitchcock fans around the world.

This work emerged from a series of conversations over the course of 14 years, between the author and the director Federico Fellini. It illustrates his passion for life and cinema and contains commentary on actors such as Marcello Mastroianni and directors such as Roberto Rossellini.