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10 best books like Rushmore (Wes Anderson): Django Unchained, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges, Being John Malkovich, Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay, Goodfellas: Screenplay, Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay, Magnolia: The Shooting Script, The Prestige - Screenplay, Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script

Django Unchained
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
If the movie had your curiosity, then this graphic novel will have your attention!

This is not just a mere adaptation of the movie, but the very first draft of the script that Quentin Tarantino envisioned. While the true essence of the story is same, there are tons of cool new scenes, backstories,...
The Big Lebowski
AuthorJoel Coen
ISBN0571193358
The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski-alias The Dude-attempts to seek recompense for the despoliation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman-a situation that goes from bad to worse due...
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...
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...
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...
Goodfellas: Screenplay
AuthorNicholas Pileggi
ISBN0571162657
'As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.'

Henry Hill grows up in the 1950s, in a Brooklyn neighbourhood where Italian-American gangsters walk tall in the streets, commanding the respect of their peers. Young Henry dreams that one day he too might be a professional...
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....
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,...
Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script
AuthorMichael Arndt
ISBN1557047707
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...
Girl, Interrupted: Screenplay based on the book
AuthorJames Mangold
Set in the changing world of the 1960s, the motion picture Girl Interrupted is the searing story of Susanna, a young woman who finds herself at a mental institution for troubled young women. Susanna's 'short rest', prescribed by a psychiatrist she had met just once, becomes a strange journey into Alice's...
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...
Sunset Boulevard
AuthorBilly Wilder
ISBN0520218558
Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together...
Eyes Wide Shut & Dream Story
AuthorStanley Kubrick
ISBN0446676322


NOTE: This is a review of the film, rather than of reading of the screenplay itself, and how it differs from Arthur Schnitzler’s novella, Dream Story, which I’ve reviewed in detail HERE.

It was Stanley Kubrick’s final film, in 1999, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who...
The Seinfeld Scripts: The First and Second Seasons
AuthorJerry Seinfeld
ISBN0060953039
Jerry. George. Elaine. Kramer. We've followed their misadventures for nearly ten years on Thursday nights. Here, finally, are the scripts of the first two seasons that will take you back to the beginning of Seinfeld.

Featuring the first 17 episodes ever aired, The Seinfeld Scripts contains...
Batman Begins: The Screenplay
AuthorChristopher J. Nolan
ISBN0571229948
Batman Begins, directed by the award-winning Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), unveils the untold origins of the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham City. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight...
Annie Hall: Screenplay
AuthorWoody Allen
ISBN0571202144
Source: http://www.sparknotes.com/film/annieh...

Largely considered Woody Allen’s greatest and best-loved film, Annie Hall was released in 1977 to wide critical and commercial success. The film, which Allen cowrote, directed, and starred in, tells the story of a failed romance...
The Apocalypse Now Book
AuthorPeter Cowie
ISBN0306810468
The making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic, based on unprecedented access to his private archives


The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said simply, "There...
The Wes Anderson Collection
AuthorMatt Zoller Seitz
Wes Anderson is one of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, Anderson is known for the visual artistry, inimitable tone, and idiosyncratic characterizations that make each of his films—Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic...
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