Author Archive for: ‘Kristin Thompson’

Yuri Tsivian, Ivan the Terrible. London: British Film Institute, 2002, (BFI Film Classics series) ISBN: 0 85170834 X 87 pp £8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing). Yuri Tsivian’s book on Ivan the Terrible is a strange and wonderful project dealing with a film that is already widely familiar. As Tsivian says, “The more we know the more we can see” …

Ian Pryor, Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. ISBN: 0312322941. 380 pp. US$24.95 (hb) (First published in 2003 by Random House New Zealand). Sean Astin, with Joe Layden, There and Back Again: An Actor’s Tale. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. ISBN: 0312331460 320 pp. US$24.95 (hb). As I write this …