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Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint

10 best books like Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint (Spike Lee): Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories, Being John Malkovich, Clerks & Chasing Amy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay, Fargo, The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume, Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Reservoir Dogs

Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories
AuthorWoody Allen
ISBN0394712293
My earliest familiarity with Woody Allen is the voice of Z in the animated classic, Antz (1998). More recently, I watched Magic in the Moonlight (2014) and Irrational Man (2015) because I think Emily Stone is brilliant and ravishing. I had never seen Annie Hall (1977), Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979),...
Being John Malkovich
AuthorCharlie Kaufman
ISBN0571205860
What do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hilarity, drama, and perhaps the most unique film of the 90s. Being John Malkovich, which stars John...
Clerks & Chasing Amy
AuthorKevin Smith
ISBN0786882638
Here in one volume are two screenplays by Kevin Smith, one of today's most original filmmakers. Clerks was the independent film success story of 1994, winning the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critics Week Award at Cannes, and the Filmmakers' Trophy at Sundance. Set in the everyday world...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay
AuthorGraham Chapman
ISBN0413741206
The first feature film by the Monty Python team is a mock heroic tale set in medieval Britain with lots of silly things going on besides. In a series of sketches and animations, the Pythons recount scenes from the Grail legend in which the knights forsake their chorus line can-can dancing in Camelot for...
Fargo
AuthorJoel Coen
ISBN0571179630
Fargo (Fargo, Script), Ethan Coen
Jerry Lundergaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into serious debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his wife. Jerry plans to get his rich father-in-law to pay the ransom--half of the money will be used to pay the...
The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume
AuthorEphraim Katz
ISBN0060742143
A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.

Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry....
Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever
AuthorDon Haskins
ISBN1401307914
Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer's movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western Miners

In 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that...
Steven Spielberg: A Biography
AuthorJoseph McBride
ISBN0306809001
Director, producer, and studio magnate, Steven Spielberg is the most successful filmmaker in movie history, responsible for such box-office blockbusters as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Jurassic Park, and Saving Private Ryan....
Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood
AuthorRudolph Grey
ISBN0922915245
This book was not what I was expecting. Which I probably should have expected given the subject.

Instead of a standard biography that follows chronologically through the live of Edward D. Wood, Jr, we are instead presented with a series of interviews from the people who knew him best. These...
Reservoir Dogs
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN0802136850
Quentin Tarantino's films have single-handedly revived and redefined American noir, bringing to Hollywood a new energy, irony, and cool. Tarantino has won awards and accolades around the world, earned a devoted following among critics, actors, and audiences, and paved the way for a new generation...
A History of Narrative Film
AuthorDavid A. Cook
ISBN0393978680
رغم أني أعطيته النجوم الخمس ...إلا أنني لا أظن أن الجميع سيستمتع به بقدر استمتاعي ...
ببساطه الكتاب يحكي عن السينما منذ بدايتها...منذ أول شريط سينمائي عرض...
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
AuthorPaul M. Sammon
ISBN0061053147
The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging,...
Cinematography for Directors: A Guide for Creative Collaboration
AuthorJacqueline B. Frost
ISBN1932907556
Well written as an overview but it doesn't surpass that limit. " visual References " and " The Color Palette " are the most valuable chapters, also the interviews - though it get very repetitive - but describes the director/cinematographer relationship well. The very disappointment was for the technical...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
AuthorDito Montiel
ISBN1560259604
Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking...
Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay
AuthorSyd Field
ISBN0440504902
Syd has some very useful things to say about the craft of screenwriting. His analysis of these four screenplays __ excellent choices by any measure __ is helpful. But as with most guide books to doing anything well, they are after the fact, and merely indicate what was done well and how that was achieved,...
All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present
AuthorAaron McGruder
ISBN0307352668

Well I do have to admit that the whole 'banned strips' section at the back was a bit of a letdown, with mostly nothing you haven't seen before. Clearly a publisher's gimmick to make people buy the book. But here's the thing, Andrews McMeel: why bother? Aaron McGruder is a genius ( Birth of a Nation notwithstanding)...
Nightmare Movies: A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films
AuthorKim Newman
ISBN0517573660
In 1968, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby brought a new slant to the horror film, bringing zombies and witchcraft into a contemporary setting, and much closer to home than the cardboard Transylvanias of earlier films. This work is a critical overview of...
This Is Orson Welles
AuthorOrson Welles
Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent...
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
AuthorVincent Lobrutto
ISBN0306809060
Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed filmsPath of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of the greatest American filmmakers. Yet, despite being hailed as “a giant” by Orson Welles, little...
Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script
AuthorGina Mayer
ISBN1848420390
At first glance, “Slumdog Millionaire”, written by Vikas Swarup, would appear to be a story about someone that wins a bunch of cash in the Indian Slum but, it is much more than that. “Slumdog Millionaire” is written in the perspective of a young boy named, Ram Mohammad Thomas. Suspected of cheating...
Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
AuthorWilliam Goldman
ISBN0747553173
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...
Magnolia: The Shooting Script
AuthorPaul Thomas Anderson
ISBN1557044090
Magnolia reads like a collection of prayers.
Unimpeachable logic.
Loss and longing woven beautifully into a blended metaphor.
I never turn away the chance to live within the allegory of these characters lives for a couple of hours. The same joy/ fulfillment invades me when I watch Dr....
Rashomon
AuthorAkira Kurosawa
ISBN0813511801
羅生門 = Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon (Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese period film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura. While the film borrows the...
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