Film at Lincoln Center Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Dracula: A Horror Story by Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Dario Argento's DRACULA 3D plays (in 3D!) this Thursday at 9pm & this Sunday at 8:30pm during our retrospective. 🧛 Get tickets for the director's idiosyncratic update of Bram Stoker’s foundational vampire novel: https://t.co/mnalH3MSLO https://t.co/fohoG6qmb7
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American Beauty: The Shooting Script
Alan Ball
Just announced—join us on Dec. 6 for a free talk with Oscar- & Tony-winning director Sam Mendes (1917, AMERICAN BEAUTY) to discuss his new film EMPIRE OF LIGHT in the context of his thematically rich & psychologically incisive body of work: https://t.co/9wDOWHC55I https://t.co/9Y2YqTJwwk
Paperback, 2022
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tolstoy: Plays: Volume I: 1856-1886
Leo Tolstoy
Audrey Hepburn's test shots for King Vidor's WAR AND PEACE, 1956. Vidor’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epoch-defining novel plays tomorrow at 3pm! Don't miss the historical film of unsurpassed scope and depth: https://t.co/CWEcRm2LBu https://t.co/bgPnBEjdBs
Hardcover, 1994
$74.95$49.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Hummingbird
Sandro Veronesi
THE HUMMINGBIRD | June 1 at 7pm (with Q&A) & June 7 at 6pm Adapted from Sandro Veronesi’s Strega Prize-winning novel, Francesca Archibugi’s latest feature is an at once epic and intimate chronicle of love and familial ups and downs that spans six decades and three generations. https://t.co/CWnuNCm7Uc
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski
TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS | June 15 at 6:30pm & June 19 at 6:30pm In Ferreri’s radical portrait of an artist, inspired by the short stories of Charles Bukowski, Ben Gazzara stars as a drunken poet who wanders the streets of Los Angeles. https://t.co/V6rMNSjCwM
Paperback, 1984
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc Godard
“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.” Remembering the great Jean-Luc Godard on his birthday. 💜 https://t.co/Js45PUUL31
Hardcover, 2000
$150.00$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Princess Mononoke: The First Story: The First Story
Hayao Miyazaki
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Hayao Miyazaki) | Feb. 4 at 1:15pm “A masterpiece. Also a confusing film to see as a kid. We couldn’t decide if we were in love with the Princess or wanted to be her. Still not sure.” - @Daniels https://t.co/hmvUnbya1P
Hardcover, 2014
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lost Illusions: The Two Poets, a Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Eve and David
Honoré de Balzac
Watch an exclusive clip from LOST ILLUSIONS, winner of seven César Awards (including Best Film), a Rendez-Vous with French Cinema selection, and a @nytimes Critic's Pick, ahead of seeing the sumptuous adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel in our theaters: https://t.co/BIU7ZMvBvK https://t.co/EkvqOKAqVJ
Paperback, 2022
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
War and Peace: Vol. one
Leo Tolstoy
Audrey Hepburn's test shots for King Vidor's WAR AND PEACE, 1956. Vidor’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epoch-defining novel plays tomorrow at 3pm! Don't miss the historical film of unsurpassed scope and depth: https://t.co/CWEcRm2LBu https://t.co/bgPnBEjdBs
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Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
@neonrated @Cinecitta LOST ILLUSIONS (dir. Xavier Giannoli) | Opens June 10 | 🎟️: https://t.co/BIU7ZMvBvK With this sweeping, sumptuous adaptation of one of Honoré de Balzac’s greatest novels, Giannoli crafts a surprisingly contemporary tale of corruption amidst an early form of “fake news.” https://t.co/CeA2IPNZ27
Hardcover, 2020
$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book