A conundrum among independent filmmakers, Cox has always done things his way. Appropriately, then, X Films communicates a tangible sense of filmmaking as adventure, more how-to than autobiography.

In this bracingly foul-mouthed and highly compelling memoir, producer/AD Robert Relyea recalls the last gasp of buccaneering, big-budget Hollywood filmmaking.

Possibly the greatest movie-related bathroom book of all time, "Have You Seen...?" has 1,000 alphabetical entries, each with a well-honed five hundred words that will have you running to your Netflix queue or yelling in dissent.

The world is not short of books about David Lynch, but none till now matches Greg Olson's complex, keen-eyed but sympathetic biography.

As this Taschen volume makes clear, the Master of Suspense remains appealing to cineastes young and old, with 50-plus features underscoring his timeless ingenuity.

Author Gwenda Young makes the case that from the silent era to the golden age, Clarence Brown deserves a place among the giants.

Director Ernst Lubitsch, who was idolized by Wilder and Welles, is brought into sharp focus.

The making of George Stevens' Texas-sized epic is recounted in Don Graham's meticulously chronicled book.

As the newly scaled down yet no less comprehensive Taschen book Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made demonstrates, Kubrick was nothing if not a completist.