Independent Spirit celebrates the independent director. Featuring select short films by up and coming directors, Independent Spirit Short Film Collections take short films out of the film festival circuit and put them right into your living room. See where your favorite director started, or see where one is headed, Independent Spirit Short Film Collections give you a front row seat on these talented men and women. Volume One features the works of Daniel L. White: The Soldier – … Buy Independent Spirit – Short Film Collection Vol. One at Amazon
This disappointment from Jim Jarmusch stars Johnny Depp in a mystery-Western about a 19th-century accountant named William Blake, who spends nearly all his money getting to a hellish mud town in the old West and ends up penniless and doomstruck in the wilderness. A benevolent if goofy Native American (Gary Farmer) takes an interest in guiding Blake on a quest for identity in his earthly journey, but the film is really just a string of endless shtick about inbred woodsmen, dumb lawm… Buy Dead Man at Amazon
Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors’ bestselling Film Art: An Introduction (now in its eighth edition), concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference than competin… Buy Film History: An Introduction at Amazon
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