Close-up: Cinema Books for Oscars Weekend 🎥
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Whether you’ve had the ceremony pencilled in for months or just enjoy the occasional cinema visit, celebrate Oscars weekend by delving into the vibrant worlds of some of your favourite filmmakers. To mark the occasion, we’re highlighting some of our extraordinary books by Oscar-nominated directors bringing their work from the screen to the page. 
Chloé Zhao, Jessie Buckley, Agata Grzybowska This dreamlike book combines Chloé Zhao’s cinematic storytelling with mesmerising writings by actor Jessie Buckley and Agata Grzybowska’s haunting on-set photography to create an immersive parallel telling of Zhao’s latest film Hamnet (2025). 
Yorgos Lanthimos This sculptural artist’s book unfolds an enigmatic narrative through photographs made around the sets and locations of Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest feature Bugonia (2025), further developing Lanthimos’s inimitable visual language. 
RaMell Ross RaMell Ross’s acclaimed book forms a radically reimagined visual narrative of the American South through a combination of photographs, mixed-media works, selected films, and texts by Ross himself, poet Tracy K. Smith, and more. 
Alejandro G. Iñárritu Stills, on-set photography, director’s notes, and production ephemera come together with new texts by Denis Villeneuve, Wendy Guerra, and others to offer a compelling view into the electrifying world of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s debut feature. 
Yorgos Lanthimos Yorgos Lanthimos’s bestselling book interweaves haunting photographs made on the set of Kinds of Kindness (2024) with poetic texts to form a new story rich with the tensions and unsettling atmospheres that Lanthimos has made his own. 
Sofia Coppola Coppola’s iconic first book features photographs and ephemera from her personal collection, including reference collages, annotated scripts, and more, to chart an intimate exploration of her work and methods across her eight films. 
Sofia Coppola (ed.) Revisiting Coppola's debut The Virgin Suicides (1999), which remains a cult classic twenty-five years on, the images in this volume by photographer Corinne Day capture the lush world created by Coppola with unprecedented intimacy. Header image © Agata Grzybowska, from Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream      MACK |
