Adam Nayman

David Fincher: Mind Games is the definitive critical and visual survey of the Academy Award– and Golden Globe–nominated works of director David Fincher. From feature films Alien 3, Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and Mank through his MTV clips for Madonna and the Rolling Stones and the Netflix series House of Cards and Mindhunter, each chapter weaves production history with original critical analysis, as well as with behind the scenes photography, still-frames, and original illustrations from Little White Lies' international team of artists and graphic designers. Mind Games also features interviews with Fincher's frequent collaborators, including Jeff Cronenweth, Angus Wall, Laray Mayfield, Holt McCallany, Howard Shore and Erik Messerschmidt. Grouping Fincher's work around themes of procedure, imprisonment, paranoia, prestige and relationship dynamics, Mind Games is styled as an investigation into a filmmaker obsessed with investigation, and the design will shift to echo case files within a larger psychological profile.

A heavily illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award–nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as a true auteur and among the foremost ?lmmaking talents of his generation. His ?lms have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with the ?nest actors of our time, including Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Ho?man. In Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks, Anderson’s entire oeuvre—from Boogie Nights (1997), There Will Be Blood (2007), and The Master (2012) to his music videos for Radiohead to his early short ?lms—is examined in illustrated detail for the ?rst time. Anderson’s in?uences, his style, and the recurring themes of reinvention, alienation, destiny, and ambition that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by ?rsthand interviews with Anderson’s closest collaborators and illuminated by ?lm stills, archival photos, original illustrations, and a vibrant, engaging design aesthetic. Masterworks is a tribute to the dreamers, drifters, and evil dentists who populate his world.

From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical, instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. In The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot, as he puts it, “some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness.” The book combines critical text—biography, close film analysis, and enlightening interviews with key Coen collaborators—with a visual aesthetic that honors the Coens’ singular mix of darkness and levity. Featuring film stills, beautiful and evocative illustrations, punchy infographics, and hard insight, this book will be the definitive exploration of the Coen brothers’ oeuvre.

- Despite its exceedingly poor theatrical and critical consensus during its 1995 release, Showgirls generated over $100M in the home video market and is one of MGM's top 20 all-time sellers. Consistently rated one of the worst films ever made, it is a cult classic which Rolling Stone called "The Greatest Stripper Movie Ever Made." - When it was originally released in 2014, It Doesn't Suck received wide acclaim from such publications as Las Vegas Weekly, The A.V. Club, Slate, and Paste Magazine. - Adam Nayman regularly tweets to his 4.3K followers. Showgirls is available to rent/buy on iTunes, and Amazon. - We are releasing this revised version of our 1st book in the series timed with the 10th installment. - At Winter Institute, independent booksellers in the U.S. expressed enthusiasm about ECW's Pop Classics series, especially its aesthetics for display in their stores.