The Red Shoes by Pamela Hutchinson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to leave them with troubling questions. Representing the climax of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cel ...Show more
The Deer Hunter by Brad Prager
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence. Brad P ...Show more
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own ...Show more
The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat 33 1/3 by Lisa Whittington-Hill
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The Go-Go's debut album Beauty and the Beat was released on July 8, 1981. The album spent six weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard charts, produced two hit singles and sold more than two million copies making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time. Beauty and the Beat made the ...Show more
Madonna's Erotica 33 1/3 by Michael Dango
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to be a celebration of a sexual culture that had rapid ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
$55.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Patrick Stewart - Making It So - A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
$65.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, MAKING IT SO, ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$38.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
Holding the Note: Writing on Music by David Remnick
$43.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the ...Show more
Everything I Know About Books: An insider look at publishing in aotearoa by Edited by Odessa Owens and Theresa Crewdson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A wide range of publishers, illustrators, poets, publicists, designers and award-winning authors such as Ashleigh Young, Anahera Gildea, Michael Bennett, Paula Morris, Selina Tusitala Marsh discuss their writing. Covering a blend of genres, including advice, poems, listicles, creative insights, graphi ...Show more
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more