Tony Palmer

Behind the Scenes shows how films are really made. Featuring multi-Oscar winning cameraman Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor), the first ever appearance together of the three knights of English theatre, Olivier, Gielgud and Richardson, plus Richard Burton in his last major role teamed up with Vanessa Redgrave and a host of other stars, this unique pictorial record captures all the behind-the-scenes mystery that goes into making a film.

Why Me? First Account for Me, are the memoirs of famed film director Tony Palmer. His vast filmography of over one hundred films ranges from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, to the famous portraits with and about Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas, André Previn, John Osborne, Leonard Cohen, Margot Fonteyn, Renée Fleming and Menuhin. His 7 hour 45 minutes film on Wagner, starring Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave, was described by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most beautiful films ever made”.

Bir kar firtinasi sirasinda dünyaya gelen Jane, 29 yasina kadar fark etmedigi ender bir yetenege sahiptir: Gerçek aski görme yetenegi. Zor bir çocukluk geçiren, yalniz ve umutsuz bir romantik olan Jane, bir gün gizemli bir kadindan bir mesaj alir. 30. dogum gününe kadar gün batimindan önce askin alti türünü tanimlamali ve tanimalidir, aksi takdirde hayatinin bundan sonrasinda korkunç sonuçlarla karsi karsiya kalacaktir. Tutkuyla yasanan ask Eros, oyun gibi yasanan ask Ludus, arkadasliktan dogan ask Storge, aklin yönettigi ask Pragma, inis çikislarla dolu ask Mania ve kosulsuz ask Agapi... Agapi, askin hiç kaybolmayan ve engel tanimayan bu alti türünü tahmin edilmesi imkânsiz sonlarla kalplerimize kaziyor. Yasadiklari zorluklara ragmen hayatin her alaninda var olan güçlü kadin karakterleriyle Türkiye’deki ve dünyadaki okurlari tarafindan çok sevilen Sarah Jio’nun sicak ve samimi anlatimiyla...

Julian Bream is recognised as one of the world's leading guitarists, some would say the greatest. He was certainly for many years Britain's senior ambassador as a guitarist and lutenist, touring more widely and more frequently than almost any other artist in the international arena. Bream also did incomparable work in the recording studio to establish both the guitar and the lute as concert instruments. Not content with his unique status as a performer, however, Julian Bream has always been actively concerned with new music - commissioning works from a stream of leading contemporary composers. Surprisingly for a man of his international reputation, Julian Bream was his own secretary. He planned his own concerts, made his own travel arrangements, drove himself around, checked his own lighting and carried his own baggage. At the same time, he was an avid amateur cricketer and country gardener - growing his own fruit and vegetables all year round. In 1981 this intriguingly self-contained man agreed to share some of the load. Tony Palmer travelled with him in Europe and America over several months, drawing out from the essentially private Julian Bream his views on his art and on his position in the world of music. The result is Julian Bream: a Life on the Road, where the Maestro discusses the history of his beloved guitar and its role as a solo instrument, as well as his relationships with giants of contemporary music. With self-deprecating wit, he gives a unique insight into all that he then felt about his life on the road: where he was going, what good he believed he did, why he carried on, how he 'did it' - the guitar, the lute, touring, recording, commissioning, 'the old musicke racket', his home. Daniel Meadows accompanied them, and his beautiful photographs add to this unusual and exhilarating picture of a self-made man - who built, out of nothing, his own unrivalled status as a man of music. The re-publishing of Palmer's acclaimed book - for so long out-of-print and thus a much sought-after collector's item - will be welcomed by music lovers and guitar aficionados around the world.

The Oz trial was the longest obscenity trial in history. It was also one of the worst reported. With minor exceptions, the Press chose to rewrite what had occurred, presumably to fit in with what seemed to them the acceptable prejudices of the times. Perhaps this was inevitable. The proceedings dragged on for nearly six weeks in the hot summer of 1971, when there were, no doubt, a great many other events more worthy of attention. Against the background of murder in Ulster, for example, the Oz affair fades into its proper insignificance. Even so, after the trial, when some newspapers realised that maybe something important had happened, trial and judgement by a badly informed press became the order of the day. A factual account was required. This revised 50th anniversary edition of The Trials of Oz includes new material by all three of the original defendants, the prosecuting barrister, one of the Oz schoolkids, and even the daughters of the judge. There are also many illustrations, including unseen material from Felix Dennis' own collection.

Emily knows her big brother, Tom, wants to leave Hillside Farm and go overseas to the war, but Emily doesn't want him to go. 'Everyone else is going, ' said Tom to Emily when their uncle was gone. 'That's not a good reason, ' said Emily. The Soldier's Gift is a moving story of one family's courage and endurance during the First World War, the terrible losses at Gallipoli and a time that changed Australia forever.

"Everyone else is going," said Tom to Emily when their uncle was gone. "That's not a good reason," said Emily. Emily knows her big brother, Tom, wants to leave Hillside Farm and go overseas to the war, but Emily doesn't want him to go. The Soldier's Gift is a moving story of one family's courage and endurance during World War I, the terrible losses at Gallipoli, and a time that changed Australia forever.