Joe Dante

The legendary golf instructional, available again. This is, along with Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, THE book Golf professionals turn to. "Thirty years ago I was recommending Joe Dante's book The Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf as a must read for aspiring PGA professionals. What Dante said in '62 has influenced many of the game's finest teachers. Dante was a visionary."--Gary Wiren, author of New Golf Mind When published, The Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf radically changed the way many players thought about the golf swing. Dante's system showed how simple it was to improve one's game, and at the same time gave the golfer one of the most comprehensive analyses of swing mechanics ever published. Now, thirty-three years after its original publication, Main Street is proud to reissue this classic instructional. Dante begins by sweeping out all the misconceptions of the game. "If good golf is to be learned and the poor player is to improve, a purging must take place, painful as it may be." Dante discusses a few basics of grip and stance, and then he gets to the heart of his book, the four magic moves. As he reveals each of the moves, Dante focuses on the physical checkpoints so that any golfer can make sure that his or her swing is on the right track. The Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf is straightforward and easy to understand, yet unlike other golf books it is irreverent and audacious in its approach to mastering the game. The publication of this rediscovered classic is sure to establish Joe Dante's reputation as one of golf's greatest teachers.

Bold, controversial, irreverant, and even described as 'heretical', this unique guide to golf pulls no punches in exposing the golfing myths that sabotage your progress and hold you back from the golf improvement you desire. Golfing expert and champion, Joe Dante, has analysed the ineffective swing, breaking it down into four key errors that block the way to golfing improvement for many a keen golfer. If you are not seein the progress in golf you desire, the chances are you are falling victim to one, or all, of these fatal flaws in your swing. Each error is scienfifically broken down, so you can see immediately what you are doing wrong, and, more importantly, exactly what you need to do to correct it! Each of the errors, or 'fatal flaws' as Joe refers to them, is replaced with a corresponding 'magic move' that literally overrides the error, and sets you immediately back on to track for golf success. Winning Golf is based upon proven, scientific principles but presented in such a way that anyone can easily understand and implement the techniques. This unique guide is a must for anyone wanting to improve his or her golf!

In the often dreary landscape of Hollywood's blockbuster era, the cinema of Joe Dante has always stood out as a rare beacon of fearless originality. Blending humor with terror and trenchant political satire with sincere tributes to the moviegoing act itself, the "Dante touch" is best described as a free-for-all orgy of movies, memories and mischief. For the first time, this colourful universe--from Hollywood Boulevard to Gremlins to Small Soldiers and beyond--is comprehensively explored in an English language volume featuring a career-encompassing interview, new essays by Michael Almereyda, Jim Hoberman, Christoph Huber, Gabe Klinger, Violeta Kovacsics, Bill Krohn, Dusan Rebolj, John Sayles, and Mark Cotta Vaz, as well as a treasure trove of never-before-seen documents and illustrations.

Insightful interviews of horror legends George Romero, John Landis, Joe Dante, Brian Yuzna, and more, by former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue, Dave Alexander, about the scariest horror movies never made! Take a behind-the-scenes look into development hell to find the most frightening horror movies that never were, from unmade Re-Animator sequels to alternate takes on legendary franchises like Frankenstein and Dracula! Features art, scripts, and other production material from unmade films that still might make you scream--with insights from dozens of directors, screenwriters, and producers with decades of experience. Featured Interviews With: George A. Romero John Landis Joe Dante Vincenzo Natali Brian Yuzna William Lustig William Malone Buddy Giovinazzo Tim Sullivan Richard Raaphorst Ruggero Deodato Jim Shooter Bob Layton David J. Skal

Dante For Beginners takes the reader on a trip starting in hell and ending in heaven. The reader gets a quick introduction to Dante and his times. Next, the reader meets a sweet lass named Beatrice and samples a bit of his other literary offerings, such as the great feast, the Convivio. But then it’s on to the big one, the Commedia, and a canto by canto description of the entire work. Characters, ideas and situations are described as they happen—no searching through end notes, footnotes or field notes to distinguish Forese Donati, Dante’s pal, from his evil brother, Corso. The entire plan of the hereafter is simply mapped out. Dante For Beginners is a great vacation with history’s greatest tourist, Dante Alighieri.

Saggi - saggio (95 pagine) - Joe Dante, formatosi nella bottega del leggendario Roger Corman, è tra i registi hollywoodiani del fantastico più significativi degli anni Ottanta. Il grande regista Joe Dante è un appassionato esploratore del cinema, protagonista di grandi successi commerciali e abilissimo nel cucire film a basso costo. Un artista umano e spiritoso, nelle fantasie come nella morale, capace insieme di ferocia, di tenerezza e di satira morale. Un artigiano che maschera abilmente una cultura alta sotto i modelli dei generi popolari e gli effetti da film di serie B in un intelligente omaggio alle meraviglie di un cinema perduto. Joe Dante – Master of Horror è un saggio a cura di Luigi Boccia, scritto da Mario Rumor, Joe Godoy Gonzalez, Emanuele Crivello, Giuseppe Carradori, Lorenzo Ricciardi e Anna Silvia Armenise. La cover è di Giorgio Finamore. Luigi Boccia, scrittore, sceneggiatore e regista, ha lavorato per diverse case di produzione cinematografica tra le quali la Eagle Picture, La 7 e Rai. Tra i suoi libri La Janara (2007), Leonardo da Vinci e la finestra sul tempo (2014), La Notte chiama (2016), Scarescrow (2018). Ha curato diverse antologie e volumi per vari editori, ed è autore di saggi, tra i quali Licantropi e Chi è Pennywise?, Scrivere l’horror nel cinema e nella televisione. Per la Star Comics ha ideato con Sergio Stivaletti la serie a fumetti Factor-V. Per Delos Digital cura la collana Horror Story. È il fondatore del marchio editoriale Weird Book.

New York City, October 1962: The Cuban missile crisis threatens the world as a drug war consumes the mafia. Caught up in its midst is Davey Rossi, former lightweight champion and son of Mafia don Vince Rossi. As Davey trains for his comeback to regain the title, he learns of a secret kept by Vince and his brother Johnny--a betrayal that split the Rossi family and caused its tragic involvement in the long-buried wars between the Jewish and Italian gangsters of the 1920's and 30's. The past and its deadly mystery force Davey to enter the violent life he has tried to avoid. He is pitted against ambitious, cunning Mafiosi steeped in guile and treachery. Davey searches for Dolly Irving, the reclusive stage star of the 1920's who knew the mobsters of that glamorous, roaring decade. And he falls in love with Julie Alpert, a beautiful tax attorney whose covert agenda threatens to bring down the Rossi family. Told in a pitch-perfect voice, with a rich and varied cast, and set against the backdrop of the Kennedy brothers' vendetta against the Mafia, Thy Father's Son is a stunning novel of family loyalty, redemption, and the sins of the past that can only be expiated by vengeance.