motion pictures

Collects an assortment of interviews with noteworthy Hollywood directors, writers, and technicians, who discuss the nature of their work and the accomplishments of cinema's most defining pioneers.

A chronological look at over one hundred years of film and movie history from 1894 to 2006, containing thousands of entries, stills, studio portraits, and key events and facts from each year, and including features on the development of sound, the studio system, the Academy Awards, and other topics. Includes general and film indexes.

An introduction to film as an art form, providing background information on filmmaking to show what separates good films from great ones. Includes a list of must-see films.

Binx Bolling is a moviegoer who lives for the bright, fleeting moments of celluloid fantasy he experiences at the movies. But real life butts in and soon he is more involved than he would like to be with a beauty who is drifting toward disaster.