Jackie Brown

10 best books like Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino): Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint, Clerks & Chasing Amy, Fargo, Suicide Blonde, My Dinner With André, Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script, The Complete Fawlty Towers, Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay, Lost Highway, Hannah and Her Sisters

Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint

Author	Spike Lee
ISBN	0671682652

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...

Clerks & Chasing Amy

Author	Kevin Smith
ISBN	0786882638

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...

Fargo

Author	Joel Coen
ISBN	0571179630

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...

Suicide Blonde

Author	Darcey Steinke
ISBN	0802136648

Vanity Fair called this intensely erotic story of a young woman's sexual and psychological odyssey "a provocative tour through the dark side." Jesse, a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old, is adrift in San Francisco's demimonde of sexually ambiguous, bourbon-drinking, drug-taking outsiders. While...

My Dinner With André

Author	Wallace Shawn
ISBN	0802130631

"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...

Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script

Author	Michael Arndt
ISBN	1557047707

Here is the official screenplay book tie-in to the uproarious American family road comedy. Brazenly satirical yet deeply human, Little Miss Sunshine introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history. Meet the Hoovers, a motley six-member family who...

The Complete Fawlty Towers

Author	John Cleese
ISBN	0679721274

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

Author	Bruce Robinson
ISBN	0747538972

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...

Lost Highway

Author	David Lynch
ISBN	0571191509

Sitting on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, Fred Madison experiences a shattering headache. The next day, a dazed and confused Pete Dayton is found in Madison's cell. Dayton has no memory of how he came to be there. Madison has gone missing. What follows may be reality or it may...

Hannah and Her Sisters

Author	Woody Allen
ISBN	0394747496

Jesus, Woody Allen scripts have a helluva lot of description and direction in them!

HANNAH: (eating, nodding) H-H-Hello!
The score of classical music is in time with the following of Lee's stammers:
LEE: (agreeing, dusting, walking over to the piano) So I-I-I was thinking...
HANNAH:...

Gods and Monsters: Movers, Shakers, and Other Casualties of the Hollywood Machine

Author

Peter Biskind

"Here is Hollywood over the last three decades - the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans, and the occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career. Biskind began as a radical journalist and film critic, excavating...

Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike

Author	Tom Mes
ISBN	1903254418

Takashi Miike is known for mostly his more bizarre, violent, controversial output in the film world. Though interestingly, I don't think there exists a genre he's not attempted. At all. His film oeuvre literally spans the entire rainbow from extreme psychological bloodbaths to historical dramas...

What Next, Charlie Brown?

Author	Charles M. Schulz
ISBN	0232011400

Another cool collection of Peanuts comic strips. The opening strip is 8 frames long. And it features--YES--Charlie Brown kicking a football while Lucy holds it. One of the all-time great themes in the Peanuts world. Charlie Brown begins by saying "NO" in large capital letters when Lucy has obviously...

Seagalogy: a Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal

Author	Vern
ISBN	1845769279

Vern, the self-styled ‘outlaw film critic’, is known to millions for his hilarious reviews on the Ain’t It Cool News website, and is described by Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro as “equal parts Hell’s Angels and Pauline Kael... a national treasure!”

Now, finally, Vern is...

Talk Radio (TCG Edition)

Author

Eric Bogosian

“Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know.” -John Hellpern, New York Observer

“Gut-grabbing… the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting.” -Ben Brantley, New York...