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Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories

10 best books like Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories (Woody Allen): Woody Allen and Philosophy: [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?], Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint, Being John Malkovich, Jackie Brown, Clerks & Chasing Amy, William Goldman: Four Screenplays, Fargo, My Dinner With André, Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay, Magnolia: The Shooting Script

Woody Allen and Philosophy: [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?]
AuthorMark T. Conard
ISBN0812694538
Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films? And why should anyone care?
Focusing on different works and varied aspects of Allen's multifaceted output, these essays explore the philosophical undertones...
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
AuthorSpike Lee
ISBN0671682652
The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent...
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...
Jackie Brown
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN0786883499
JACKIE BROWN (2 hours 34 minutes)

Jackie Brown is in her mid-forties, but looks like she's in her thirties. She's a "knockout."

Tarantino continues to use the phrase, "beeline" on 146.

Variations of the n-word are used 29 times, mostly by Ordell. Jackie uses it sparingly,...
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...
William Goldman: Four Screenplays
AuthorWilliam Goldman
I remember my reaction when I heard a movie version was being made of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. I loved the book and was worried the screen adaptation wouldn’t live up to my expectations, as often happens. But the film turned out to be just as good as the book and now I know why. It’s because...
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...
My Dinner With André
AuthorWallace Shawn
ISBN0802130631
"My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life's meanings...
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay
AuthorBilly Wilder
ISBN0520218485
On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by...
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...
The Life Of Brian: Screenplay
AuthorGraham Chapman
ISBN0413741303
I was standing around at work in the communal pile of dirty dishes and disease-ridden mouldering food called a kitchen and there was a copy of the Sun newspaper open on one table and a woman I knew was looking down the list of BRITAIN'S FAVOURITE MOVIES which The Sun had printed that day between giant photos...
Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night/The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries/The Magician
AuthorIngmar Bergman
ISBN0671678337
s/t: Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries & The Magician
Ingmar Bergman has been acclaimed throughout the world as one of the most brilliant filmmakers of our time. This collection of screenplays for a quartet of his most distinguished films shows that he's also a writer...
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
AuthorMartin Scorsese
ISBN0786863285
كتاب گشت و گذاري با مارتين اسكورسيزي در سينماي امريكا
كتاب بسيار جالبي ميباشد كتابي در مورد تاريخ سينماي هاليوود و كارگردانان تاثير گذار ان.
اين كتاب...
The Complete Fawlty Towers
AuthorJohn Cleese
ISBN0679721274
The complete and unexpurgated scripts of one of the most celebrated comedy series ever. Published in its entirety for the first time and illustrated, The Complete Fawlty Towers will appeal to the millions of fans who have suffered through endless PBS fundraisers waiting for the next episode -- and...
Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay
AuthorBruce Robinson
ISBN0747538972
Withnail & I is one of my favourite films. It's a film unlike any other, & this screenplay is equally unique. In the opening few pages Bruce Robinson describes two rooms & their contents in beautiful, almost poetic, prose. Wonderful.
What follows (in my third or fourth reading of this...
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
AuthorStanley Cavell
Not only is this a jaw droppingly gorgeous book about the very sophisticated and enlightened Romantic Comedy of the early-mid 20th C...but I'll be doggone if it isn't the best book on MARRIAGE itself I've ever read.
We start with the premise that all the couples in the films he discusses are independent,...
5001 Nights at the Movies
AuthorPauline Kael
ISBN0805013679
She writes reviews that are alternatively scathing or hilarious, and often completely unpredictable. I do not remember when I first encountered her reviews, but once I did I was hooked. It is impossible to predict what she'll say about a movie. For example, a few first lines:

Man of La Mancha...
Taxi Driver
AuthorPaul Schrader
ISBN0571203159
1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an escape from his insomnia, his barren apartment and his gnawing sense of self-disgust, which threatens to erupt in revenge against the sordid, unlovely world through which he travels. When his tentative efforts...
Scorsese on Scorsese
AuthorDavid Thompson
ISBN0571178278
This book is filled with insights on Marty's filmmaking process. When I started reading this book, I decided to watch his films along the way. It was a slow but very fulfilling experience! While one may not like all of his films, one would still gain certain appreciation for these films having read his...
Quentin Tarantino: Interviews
AuthorGerald Peary
ISBN1578060516
Not since Martin Scorsese with Mean Streets in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino. In many ways, Tarantino is the paradigmatic 1990s success story: from high school dropout, toiling anonymously in a California video...
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