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28 Days Laterby Alex GarlandISBN 0571216536 (0-571-21653-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwritingby William GoldmanISBN 0446391174 (0-446-39117-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting'Book summary:Now available as an ebook for the first time!
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated. [via]More editions of Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting:
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Almost Famousby Cameron CroweISBN 0571205690 (0-571-20569-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Famous'Book summary:The screenplay of the brilliant new film about rock 'n' roll journalism, from the writer/director of Jerry Maguire.[via]
Inspired by his own start in journalism as a teenage reporter for Rolling Stone, Cameron Crowe has created a coming-of-age story that is both funny and moving-and laced with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Set in 1973 and starring Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, and Noah Taylor, Crowe's new film tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy whose dream of becoming a rock journalist comes true when Rolling Stone sends him on tour with the up-and-coming rock band Stillwater-loosely based on Led Zeppelin-over the objections of his protective mother. Crowe brings the same wry humor he brought to Jerry Maguire as well as the brilliant evocations of teen life that animated his earlier cult film Fast Times at Ridgemont High to chronicle and celebrate a pivotal moment in rock history-and one teenage boy's place in it.More editions of Almost Famous:
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Blood Simple: The Screenplayby Joel Coen, Ethan CoenISBN 0312021682 (0-312-02168-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Simple: The Screenplay'Book summary:Director Joel Coen's and producer Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984, River Road Prods/Circle Releasing/Palace) is a contemporary noir thriller set in Texas. A taut, convoluted plot and imaginative direction made the independent release a word-of-mouth hit and established the Coen brothers' reputation for originality. Actors John Getz, Frances McDormand, and Dan Hedaya appear in the story in which a woman commits adultery, and her enraged husband hires a killer for revenge. Blackmail, violence, and mistaken assumptions lead to an edgy, exhilarating climax.[via]More editions of Blood Simple: The Screenplay:
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplayby Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana OssanaISBN 0743294165 (0-7432-9416-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay'Book summary:Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.
Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.
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Clerks and Chasing Amy: Two Screenplaysby Kevin SmithISBN 0786882638 (0-7868-8263-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Complete Book of Scriptwritingby J. Michael StraczynskISBN 1582971587 (1-58297-158-7)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Book of Scriptwriting'Book summary:Working writer/producer Straczynski has revised his 1981 text -- a standard in many institutions -- and brought it into the '90s, with updates on fluctuating markets, speculation about opportunities in CD-ROMs and anecdotage about Writers' Guild strikes that have occurred in the interval. A handy tome for the novice, since Straczynski covers much basic ground in key areas of writing for film, television, radio, animation and stage. Strongest in the movie/TV areas and also valuable for animation scribes, playwrights might note that their chapter is the thinnest; perhaps it was all apportioned according to what the various disciplines pay? [via]
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Hardcover, F & W Pubns Inc - The Complete Book of Scriptwriting: ISBN 0898795125 (0-89879-512-5)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns Inc - The Complete Book of Scriptwriting: ISBN 1582971587 (1-58297-158-7)
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The Complete Fawlty Towersby John Cleese, Connie BoothISBN 0306810727 (0-306-81072-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fawlty Towers'Book summary:The complete and unexpurgated scripts of one of the most celebrated comedy series ever. Published in its entirety for the first time and illustrated with a host of hilarious photographs, The Complete Fawlty Towers will appeal to the millions of fans who have suffered through endless PBS fundraisers waiting for the next episode -- and anyone who has survived a package holiday tour.
Fawlty Towers is the hotel of every traveler's nightmare. Basil Fawlty -- ill-tempered, henpecked, and conniving -- tries in vain to be master of his house under the disapproving and ever-watchful eye of his wife, Sybil. The hotel offers service by Manuel, the incompetent Spanish waiter whose feeble grasp of English makes for hilarious misunderstandings, and Polly, the unflappable chambermaid who is Fawlty Towers' only sane employee. Meals are scorched in the kitchen while adulterers consort upstairs and chaos reigns all around. For countless fans, Fawlty Towers is the best-loved bad hotel in the world, and with publication of The Complete Fawlty Towers they will all have a chance to relive its outrageous awfulness. [via]More editions of The Complete Fawlty Towers:
Crashby J.G. Ballard, David CronenbergISBN 0571191274 (0-571-19127-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Eat Drink Man Woman/the Wedding Banquet/Two Filmsby Ang LeeISBN 0879515686 (0-87951-568-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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El Tercer Hombreby Graham GreeneISBN 8420672807 (84-206-7280-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Tercer Hombre'Book summary:A novel and a film of suspense: When Carol Reed asked Graham Greene for a script for a suspense movie, in order not to change his work methods, the writer wrote a short novel where he developed the subject of the picture. This film, of course, is one of the greatest in the field, but the novel of Greene is also very interesting and is presented with great pride. [via]
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Elements of Style for Screenwritersby Paul ArgentiniISBN 1580650031 (1-58065-003-1)
Softcover, Lone Eagle Pub Co
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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Collected Screenplays: Raising Arizona/Blood Simple/Miller's Crossing/Barton Finkby Ethan CoenISBN 0571210961 (0-571-21096-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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Fargoby Joel Coen, Ethan CoenISBN 0571179630 (0-571-17963-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Fisher King: The Book of the Filmby Richard LagravaneseISBN 1557830983 (1-55783-098-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Four Films of Woody Allenby Woody AllenISBN 0394712293 (0-394-71229-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Films of Woody Allen'Book summary:Woody Allen's greatness as a director rests squarely on his stupendous talent as a writer. In the glory years from 1977 to 1980 he released his best--and best written--movies. Included in this volume are the scripts of Annie Hall, Allen's first mature film and the winner of the Best Picture Oscar; Interiors, his first serious work, a Bergmanesque treatment of a tortured family; Manhattan, his greatest and most characteristic movie, which concerns a writer's attempt to find true love in the comic wilderness of New York City; and Stardust Memories, his most satiric and personal piece, about the effects of fame on a film director who is standing at a crossroads in his life. [via]
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Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergmanby Ingmar BergmanISBN 0671678337 (0-671-67833-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Four Weddings and a Funeral: Four Appendices and a Screenplayby Richard CurtisISBN 0312143400 (0-312-14340-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Weddings and a Funeral: Three Appendices and a Screenplay'Book summary:Contemporary / British English Four Weddings and a Funeral - one of the most successful films from Britain. It's a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura's wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie...This Pack contains a Book and MP3 [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Jackson, Rolf KonowISBN 0393045196 (0-393-04519-6)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:The "Annotated Shakespeare" series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist. One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement. [via]
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Hamlet: By William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Jackson, Rolf Konow, Peter MountainISBN 0393315053 (0-393-31505-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hannah and Her Sistersby Woody AllenISBN 0394747496 (0-394-74749-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannah and Her Sisters'Book summary:The illustrated screenplay of Woody Allen's most successful film to date, which has already received higher praise and bigger boxoffice returns than Annie Hall. Photographs. [via]
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The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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Hiroshima Mon Amourby Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais, Richard SeaverISBN 0802131042 (0-8021-3104-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'Book summary:Au cours du tournage d'une coproduction sur la paix, une comédienne française noue une relation éphémère mais passionnée avec un Japonais. Sur cette mince intrigue, Duras est chargée par Alain Resnais d'élaborer le scénario et les dialogues d'un film, Hiroshima mon amour, titre étrange et poétique malgré la référence évidente aux atrocités de la guerre. Avec un art de l'ellipse parfaitement maîtrisé, Duras orchestre une danse sensuelle entre deux personnages qui luttent contre le temps. Lui refuse d'admettre que les atrocités d'Hiroshima ont eu lieu, Elle se tait sur son passé ; pourtant, ces fantômes ressurgissent en fragments, lambeaux d'un passé qui se superposent au moment présent. Les corps des amants se confondent peu à peu et Hiroshima se fond dans Nevers, cadre de la jeunesse de l'actrice marquée par l'opprobre parce qu'elle a aimé un jeune Allemand durant la guerre. Les gros plans sur les corps amoureux sont entrecoupés de scènes de foule et de détails d'une crudité sordide, comme si l'horreur devait, elle aussi et malgré tous les films sur la paix, lutter contre le déni pour se faire entendre. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
How to Write a Selling Screenplay: A Step-By-Step Approach to Developing Your Story and Writing Your Screenplay by One of Today's Most Successful Screenwriters and Teachersby Christopher Keane, Lauren MarinoISBN 0767900715 (0-7679-0071-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Hudsucker Proxyby Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam RaimiISBN 0571171907 (0-571-17190-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplayby Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Mark ZugISBN 0446670626 (0-446-67062-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay'Book summary:Until the recent announcement of the Will Smith/Alex Proyas collaboration scheduled for release in 2004, numerous attempts had been made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle, I, ROBOT, to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. In 1977, producers approached multiple award winning Harlan Ellison to take a crack at this 'impossible' project. He accepted, and produced an astonishing screenplay that Asimov felt would be 'The first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever made.' That screenplay is presented here in book format, brought to scintillating life by the illustrations of artist Mark Zug. After you read it, then decide: Is this not the greatest science fiction movie never made? [via]
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I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplayby Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Mark ZugISBN 1596870419 (1-59687-041-9)
Softcover, Ibooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay'Book summary:Numerous attempts had been made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle, I, Robot, to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. In 1977, producers approached multiple-award-winning author Harlan Ellison to take a crack at this impossible project. He accepted, and produced an astonishing screenplay that Asimov felt would be The first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever made. That screenplay is presented here in book format. [via]
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The Man Who Wasn't Thereby Joel Coen, Ethan CoenISBN 0571212506 (0-571-21250-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Wasn't There'Book summary:From the creators of Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?[via]
From the Coen brothers, "two of our most dependably provocative filmmakers" (Mike Clark, USA Today), comes a darkly funny thriller that harkens back to their earlier classics such as Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, and Barton Fink.
Set in 1950s California, the film stars Billy Bob Thornton as Ed, a mild-mannered barber whose wife, Doris (Frances McDormand), is having an affair with her department store boss, Big Dave. Although Ed is initially apathetic about his wife's adultery, his life is turned upside down when one of his customers tells him about "the biggest business opportunity since Henry Ford"-dry cleaning-and he decides to blackmail Big Dave for the venture capital to start a chain. From there things go horribly wrong: Dave discovers Ed's identity as the blackmailer and tries to strangle Ed, who winds up killing Dave in self-defense, yet, ironically, it's Doris who the police arrest for the murder. As Ed tries to figure out what to do next his world begins to unravel, piece by piece.
Full of the same kind of slow-burn character studies, biting humor, and pitch-perfect dialogue that their fans have come to love, the Coen brothers' latest film is sure to take a place among their finest work.More editions of The Man Who Wasn't There:
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The Marriage Scenariosby Ingmar BergmanISBN 0394714814 (0-394-71481-4)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage Scenarios'Book summary:1978 Pantheon trade paperback. ISBN:0394714814. Six marriage scenarios/partial film-scripts from Ingmar Bergman: Scenes from A Marriage, Face to Face, Autumn Sonata. Great for a movie buff. [via]
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Memento & Followingby Christopher NolanISBN 0571210473 (0-571-21047-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Monty Python and the Holy Grailby Monty PythonISBN 0749311428 (0-7493-1142-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Monty Python and the Holy Grailby Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry GilliamISBN 0413741206 (0-413-74120-6)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'Book summary:The first feature film by the Monty Python team is a mock-heroic tale set in mediaeval Britain. This screenplay edition contains just the script and is supplemented by 8 pages of b&w stills from the film. [via]
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail Bookby Graham Chapman, John CleeseISBN 0413773906 (0-413-77390-6)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail Book'Book summary:Join King Arthur, Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot, and brave Sir Robin on their holy quest from 1974. [via]
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Monty Python's Second Film: A First Draftby Graham ChapmanISBN 0413385205 (0-413-38520-5)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monty Python's Second Film: A First Draft'Book summary:This is the complete director's shooting script of the film of the same name, produced in facsimile from Terry Jones' copy, plus Terry Gilliam's storyboard drawings, correspondence concerning the naughty bits, the accounts for the film and other material. [via]
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My Beautiful Laundretteby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571202543 (0-571-20254-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette'Book summary:Described by Stuart Hall as "one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years," My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and timely film in the 1990s and early 2000s, and her exploration of the film itself is an original and entertaining achievement.[via]More editions of My Beautiful Laundrette:
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My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writingsby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571177387 (0-571-17738-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writings'Book summary:Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include "My Son the Fanatic". [via]
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My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Signby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571139817 (0-571-13981-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Sign'Book summary:The script of the screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in 1984. Includes other screenplays and journalistic pieces. [via]
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My Dinner With Andreby Wallace ShawnISBN 0802130631 (0-8021-3063-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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North by Northwestby Ernest LehmanISBN 0571201849 (0-571-20184-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Oscar and Lucindaby Laura JonesISBN 0571194702 (0-571-19470-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Flamingos Foreverby John WatersISBN 1560257016 (1-56025-701-6)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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In Pink Flamingos, Waters's muse and leading lady, Divine, a 300-pound cross-dresser who could turn your stomach in one scene and break your heart in the next, competes with her family for the title of "filthiest people alive"as readers will see, it's really anyone's game. Desperate Living is a perverse fairy tale featuring gun-toting lesbians, leather-clad castle guards, and a repulsive queen who has her own daughter gang-raped among other atrocities. Flamingos Forever is the unproduced sequel to Pink Flamingos, set fifteen years after the original, when the rivalry for "filthiest people alive" is revived; it was never filmed, Waters tells us, because by the time it was written, too many of the original cast had diedthis book is the only chance for Water's fans to read it.More editions of Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Flamingos Forever:
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Prospero's Booksby Peter GreenawayISBN 0941423603 (0-941423-60-3)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prospero's Books'Book summary:The magician Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, have been stranded for twelve years on an island The play opens as Prospero, having divined that his brother, Antonio, is on a ship passing close by the island, has raised a tempest which causes the ship to run aground. Three plots then alternate through the play. In one, Caliban falls in with Stephano and Trinculo, two drunkards, whom he believes to have come from the moon. They attempt to raise a rebellion against Prospero, which ultimately fails. In another, Prospero works to establish a romantic relationship between Ferdinand and Miranda; the two fall immediately in love, but Prospero worries that "too light winning [may] make the prize light", and compels Ferdinand to become his servant, pretending that he regards him as a spy. In the third subplot, Antonio and Sebastian conspire to kill Alonso and Gonzalo so that Sebastian can become King. They are thwarted by Ariel, at Prospero's command. Ariel appears to the "three men of sin" (Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian) as a harpy, reprimanding them for their betrayal of Prospero. Prospero manipulates the course of his enemies' path through the island, drawing them closer and closer to him. In the conclusion, all the main characters are brought together before Prospero, who forgives Alonso. He also forgives Antonio and Sebastian, but warns them against further betrayal. Prospero indicates that he intends to entertain them with the story of his life on the island. Prospero has resolved to break and bury his magic staff, and "drown" his book of magic, and in his epilogue, shorn of his magic powers, he invites the audience to set him free from the island with their applause. [via]
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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplayby Quentin TarantinoISBN 0786881046 (0-7868-8104-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Raising Arizonaby Joel Coen, Ethan CoenISBN 0312022700 (0-312-02270-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Royal Tenenbaumsby Wes Anderson, Owen WilsonISBN 0571215459 (0-571-21545-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Royal Tenenbaums'Book summary:This is the screenplay for the acclaimed film, directed by Wes Anderson. There were three extraordinary children in the Tenenbaum family; Chas Tenenbaum (Ben Stiller) was a financial expert and started buying real estate in his early teens; Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) was an acclaimed playwright and won a Pulitzer Prize in the 9th grade; Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) was a champion tennis player ranked 2nd in the world by the age 17. They were brilliant. They were famous. They were unlucky enough to be the children of a man named Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman). Now for the first time in 25 years, they're all living together under the same roof. After having largely gone their separate ways they're looking to mend fencesand themselves in the process.[via]More editions of The Royal Tenenbaums:
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Rushmoreby Wes Anderson, Owen WilsonISBN 0571200125 (0-571-20012-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rushmore'Book summary:Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial schemes that usually in failure. His personal life becomes similarly complicated when he falls for his elegant teacher, Rosemary Cross, and finds himself vying for her favor with Herman Blume-who is portrayed in the film by Bill Murray-the wealthy father of two of his classmates. Max ultimately proves himself a figure of some tenacity as he negotiates the minefield of love, desire, and adolescence.At the Toronto Film Festival, Screen International called Rushmore "a real charmer filled with surprise twists and emotions that avoid sentimentality . . . A little gem."[via]More editions of Rushmore:
Scenes from a Marriageby Ingmar BergmanISBN 0394493052 (0-394-49305-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Screenplayby Syd FieldISBN 156731239X (1-56731-239-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Screenplay'Book summary:A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic guide for a new generation of filmmakers, offering a fresh insider's perspective on the film industry today. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are easily understood guidelines to help aspiring screenwriters-from novices to practiced writers-hone their craft. Filled with updated material-including all-new personal anecdotes and insights, guidelines on marketing and collaboration, plus analyses of recent films, from American Beauty to Lord of the Rings-Screenplay presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the screenplay that will succeed in Hollywood. Discover: ?Why the first ten pages of your script are crucially important ?How to visually "grab" the reader from page one, word one ?Why structure and character are the essential foundation of your screenplay ?How to adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay ?Tips on protecting your work-three legal ways to claim ownership of your screenplay ?The essentials of writing great dialogue, creating character, building a story line, overcoming writer's block, getting an agent, and much more. With this newly updated edition of his bestselling classic, Syd Field proves yet again why he is revered as the master of the screenplay-and why his celebrated guide has become the industry's gold standard for successful screenwriting. [via]
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The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Scriptby David TrottierISBN 1879505843 (1-879505-84-3)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script'Book summary:How does a spec script differ from a shooting script? What kind of fasteners should one use to bind a script? How did the term MOS come to mean without sound? You'll find the answers to these pressing questions and much more in David Trottier's eminently usable Screenwriter's Bible. The avuncular Trottier--a writer-producer, script consultant, and seminar leader--has written a friendly guide through the Hollywood morass. He touts it as six books in one: it's "a screenwriting primer, a screenwriting workbook, a formatting guide, a spec writing guide, a sales and marketing guide, [and] a resource guide."
Much of Trottier's advice is common sense: "Don't write anything that cannot appear on the screen"; to keep casting options open, don't make your physical descriptions too specific; "don't say Ron Howard is looking at the project if he is not." But there are things to know about Hollywood that are, well, quirkier. Don't write the title of your script on the front cover or side binding; present action sequences using the "stacking action" style; in query letters and scripts alike, avoid "big blocks of black ink." Trottier's guidance--from character development and revision to queries and pitches--is invaluable. Getting in the door can seem impossible, but it's not, necessarily. "If you write a script that features a character who has a clear and specific goal," says Trottier, "where there is strong opposition to that goal leading to a crisis and an emotionally satisfying ending, your script will automatically find itself in the upper five percent."
(By the way, MOS is said to have "originated with German director Eric von Stroheim, who would tell his crew, 'Ve'll shoot dis mid out sound'"). --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Sense and Sensibilityby Emma Thompson, Lindsay Doran, Clive CooteISBN 1557042608 (1-55704-260-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sense and Sensibility'Book summary:Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. Fans of the film will treasure this beautiful volume that includes her screenplay, diaries of the writing and the filming, and many gorgeous color pictures from the film. [via]
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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Filmby Jane Austen, Emma Thompson, Lindsay Doran, Clive CooteISBN 1557042926 (1-55704-292-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film'Book summary:Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. Fans of the film will treasure this beautiful volume that includes her screenplay, diaries of the writing and the filming, and many gorgeous color pictures from the film. [via]
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Shakespeare in Loveby Tom Stoppard, Marc NormanISBN 0786884851 (0-7868-8485-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare in Love'Book summary:Tom Stoppard has always had an ear for the Bard, stretching back to his surreal and hilarious early plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoots Macbeth. For those who have already seen the film Shakespeare in Love, this screenplay offers a chance to savor Stoppard's exuberant collaboration with the renowned screenwriter Marc Norman. The result gives us, among many other things, a dog, Hamlet, Kit Marlowe, Elizabeth I, and probably one of the best screenplays in modern cinema based on Shakespeare.
The pace of the script, from its opening long shot of London in 1593 to the final shot of Viola walking off into her brave new world, is breathtaking. The verbal fireworks and Shakespearean borrowings are not only worthy of the Bard himself, but perfectly re-create the conditions of the Elizabethan theater. The jokes and allusions fly thick and fast, often straining the agility of even the most nimble Shakespeare scholar, but at the heart of the screenplay is both a compelling love story and an ingenious perspective on the inspiration behind both Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. A wonderful piece of writing--long may Shakespeare in Love keep the Bard in fashion! --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Stepford Wivesby Ira LevinISBN 0553290037 (0-553-29003-7)
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Taxi Driverby Paul SchraderISBN 0571144640 (0-571-14464-0)
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Telegraph Daysby Larry McMurtryISBN 0743250788 (0-7432-5078-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Telegraph Days'Book summary:Academy Award-winner Larry McMurtry offers his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove
Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write.
When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Once there, Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while the ever resourceful Nellie becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck. Nellie almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes to meet, and witness the exploits of Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday.
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The Third Manby Graham GreeneISBN 0140286829 (0-14-028682-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Man'Book summary:Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...[via] 
Three Films of Woody Allen : Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, the Purple Rose of Cairoby Woody AllenISBN 0394753046 (0-394-75304-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Trainspotting: A Screenplayby Irvine Welsh, John HodgeISBN 0786882212 (0-7868-8221-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trainspotting: A Screenplay'Book summary:Trainspotting is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. It is always nice to compare the book/screenplay or novel or whatever format the original is in, to the movie. As always things cut from the story when made into a movie - are in the book. [via]
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Trash Trio : Three Screenplaysby John WatersISBN 1560251271 (1-56025-127-1)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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Trash Trio: Three Screenplays Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Flamingos Foreverby John WatersISBN 0394759869 (0-394-75986-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Uplift the Race: The Construction of School Dazeby Spike Lee, Lisa JonesISBN 0671644181 (0-671-64418-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uplift the Race: The Construction of School Daze'Book summary:Spike Lee rises again. This time, he and Lisa Jones document his transition from struggling independent to mainstream filmmaker with the making of the Columbia Pictures film, School Daze. No longer working with a small cast and a painfully tight budget, Spike Lee and his crew find themselves working in a swirl of university politics, a cast of thousands, big musical production numbers and the not-insignificant pressures of coming up with a hit in the majors. He "uplifts the race" by demystifying the process of producing an entertaining commercial film that, at the same time, delivers a stinging - yet funny - critique on American culture. [via]
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When Harry Met Sallyby Nora EphronISBN 0679729038 (0-679-72903-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Harry Met Sally'Book summary:Rob Reiner's enormously funny and moving When Harry Met Sally ... -- a romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an American city, where the primary emotion is unrequited love -- is delighting audiences everywhere. Now, the complete screenplay is published. Written by Nora Ephron -- author of screenplays for Silkwood and Heartburn (from her own best-selling novel) -- When Harry Met Sally...is as hilarious on the page as it is on the screen. The book includes an introduction by the author. [via]
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Tradeby William GoldmanISBN 0375703195 (0-375-70319-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade'Book summary:Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as a valuable writer in Hollywood.
Fans of the two-time Oscar-winning writer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) have anxiously waited for this follow-up since his career serpentined into a variety of big hits and critical bombs in the '80s and '90s. Here Goldman scoops on The Princess Bride (his own favorite), Misery, Maverick, Absolute Power, and others. Goldman's conversational style makes him easy to read for the film novice but meaty enough for the detail-oriented pro. His tendency to ramble into other subjects may be maddening (he suddenly switches from being on set with Eastwood to anecdotes about Newman and Garbo), but we can excuse him because of one fact alone: he is so darn entertaining.
Like most sequels, Which Lie follows the structure of the original. Both Goldman books have three parts: stories about his movies, a deconstruction of Hollywood (here the focus is on great movie scenes), and a workshop for screenwriters. (The paperback version of the first book also comes with his full-length screenplay of Butch; his collected works are also worth checking out). This final segment is another gift--a toolbox--for the aspiring screenwriter. Goldman takes newspaper clippings and other ideas and asks the reader to diagnose their cinematic possibilities. Goldman also gives us a new screenplay he's written (The Big A), which is analyzed--with brutal honesty--by other top writers. With its juicy facts and valuable sidebars on what makes good screenwriting, this is another entertaining must-read from the man who coined what has to be the most-quoted adage about movie-business success: "Nobody knows anything." --Doug Thomas [via]
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Wildeby Richard Ellmann, Stephen Fry, Julian MitchellISBN 0752810421 (0-7528-1042-1)
Hardcover, Orion Media
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Wilde: Screenplayby Julian Mitchell, Stephen FryISBN 0787114111 (0-7871-1411-1)
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Withnail and I: The Screenplayby Bruce RobinsonISBN 0879516585 (0-87951-658-5)
Softcover, University of East Anglia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Withnail and I: The Screenplay'Book summary:Presents the screenplay of the classic cult film by Bruce Robinson, with an introduction by the director. [via]
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Writing Screenplays That Sellby Michael HaugeISBN 0062725009 (0-06-272500-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Scener Ur Ett aktenskapby Ingmar BergmanISBN 911731352X (91-1-731352-X)
Hardcover, Norstedt
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Das Endgultige Buch Der Spruche & Graffitiby Angelika FranzISBN 3453006836 (3-453-00683-6)
Hardcover, W. Heyne
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