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10 best books like Memento & Following (Christopher J. Nolan): Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America, Casablanca: Script and Legend, The Matrix: The Shooting Script, In Bruges, McSweeney's #32, Getting Away With It, Shivering Sands: Seven Years of Stories, Drinking and the World, Reservoir Dogs, Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting Script, Magnolia: The Shooting Script

Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America
AuthorNatasha Vargas-Cooper
ISBN0061991007
Ok, I admit it--I'm hooked on the TV series Mad Men. The Emmy-winning show offers a look back to what my life was like. Well, only in my imagination. Actually, I was just a pre-teenager, had never even been near New York city, was never, ever going to be able to fill out a dress like Joanie, and nobody I knew...
Casablanca: Script and Legend
AuthorHoward Koch
ISBN0879513195
Released in December 1942, Casablanca is the classic of all classic films, the enduring triumph of Hollywood's golden age. This volume contains the complete screenplay as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the Oscar-winning movie was made, by one of its writers, Howard Koch. Charles Champlin,...
The Matrix: The Shooting Script
AuthorLana Wachowski
ISBN1557044902
4 stars. This was awesome. The Matrix trilogy are some of my all time favorite films so to find this screenplay was pretty cool. It's such an innovative and iconic sci-fi series and it's impossible to deny it's impact. The Wachowski's completely changed the game with these films and the way stories can...
In Bruges
AuthorMartin McDonagh
ISBN0571242316
After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters.

While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next, the pair attempt to deal both...
McSweeney's #32
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1934781355
Because it seemed important to know in advance, we've dedicated Issue 32 to an investigation of the world to come--expect a set of near-future stories, written by the likes of Anthony Doerr, Heidi Julavits, and Salvador Plascencia, each of 'em unearthing a different corner of life in the year 2024....
Getting Away With It
AuthorSteven Soderbergh
ISBN0571190251
Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester are a generation apart, but theyshare a sense of humour and a passion for cinema. Soderbergh's freshman film, sex, lies and videotape, inaugurated a movementin US independent cinema. Lester's freewheeling work in the '60s and '70s (Help!, A Hard Day's Night,...
Shivering Sands: Seven Years of Stories, Drinking and the World
AuthorWarren Ellis
SHIVERING SANDS is a bit of an experiment: part Greatest Hits collection, part late-night ramblings, all crackling text transmissions sent down the wire from anywhere Warren Ellis had access to a computer and something to say. These essays, stories, music reviews, the occasional chemically-induced...
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...
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...
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....
The Usual Suspects
AuthorErnest Larson
ISBN0851708692
These BFI books are very addictive...

This is a fabulous examination of a film that deserves time and intellectual effort to be spent on it; what I really like about it is how it examines all aspects - the writer, the director, the influences, the performances - like the film itself all the pieces...
The Prestige - Screenplay
AuthorJonathan Nolan
ISBN0571235824
From film-maker Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins") and writer Jonathan Nolan (whose original short story 'Memento Mori' was the basis of "Memento") comes a mysterious tale of two magicians whose intense rivalry erupts into a life-long battle lethally fueled by obsession, deceit,...
Skywalking: The Life And Films of George Lucas
AuthorDale Pollock
ISBN0306809044
Filled with revelations about the origins and making of American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, this only full-length biography of filmmaker and cinematic visionary George Lucas has been updated with a substantial new chapter that discusses...
They Live
AuthorJonathan Lethem
Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international...
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...
Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic
AuthorDan Auiler
ISBN0312264097
Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo--in which obsessve ex-cop James Stewart pursues troubled loner Kim Novak throughout San Francisco--is one of the most dissected, discussed, and revered movies of all time. Now, for the first time, the story of this remakable film is revealed. Writing with the...
The Dark Knight
AuthorDennis O'Neil
ISBN0425222861
Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.

Allied with both the police department and the district attorney's office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City.

But one man dares to mock Batman's...
بیست و یک گرم
AuthorGuillermo Arriaga
ISBN9643127664
اون زمان فیلما سخت گیر میومدن مخصوصن تو شهرستان . برای همین فیلم نامه میخوندم . اونموقع خیلی فیلم خوبی بود و همینطور فیلم قبلیش عشق سگی . ایناریتو توی عشق سگی...
Inception: The Cobol Job
AuthorJordan Goldberg
LINK FOR READING ONLINE -رابط للقراءة المباشرة
https://www.scribd.com/doc/34412711/I...
At the beginning of my reading of this storyboard I was confused and I did not understand where i am!,Because I have not read the preceding sections of the series, But after a...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script
AuthorCharlie Kaufman
ISBN1557046107
In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a fascinating interview.

Kaufman also provides commentary on...
life.love.beauty
AuthorKeegan Allen
ISBN1250065704
Ingram and Publishers Weekly bestseller!

"This book takes you on a photographic voyage through my life so far." -Keegan Allen

Keegan Allen is currently known to fans of the ABC Family hit television series, Pretty Little Liars. He has also appeared in numerous independent films...
Fantastic Four: The Master of Doom
AuthorMark Millar
ISBN0785133704
Shorts (562-565). The first four issues do a great job of focusing on family: not just the Richards, but also Ben and his girl, and even Reed's only cousin. This is what the FF is all about; I'm glad that Millar got to write a bit of downtime amidst his big stories (and also that he got to offer a bit of a coda for...
Good Will Hunting
AuthorMatt Damon
As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't...
Kinski Uncut
AuthorKlaus Kinski
ISBN0140255362
This book ... is amazing. It's pure uncut megalomania. According to this book, not only is Klaus Kinsky the smartest guy in the room, he also has sex with almost every single woman that gets mentioned. This is not an exaggeration. His thinking about himself is so bombastic, egomaniacal, and inflated...
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