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10 best books like The Annotated Godfather (Jenny M. Jones): Memento & Following, Casablanca: Script and Legend, In Bruges, William Goldman: Four Screenplays, Goodfellas: Screenplay, Rushmore, Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror, The Prestige - Screenplay, Eyes Wide Shut & Dream Story, The Seinfeld Scripts: The First and Second Seasons

Memento & Following
AuthorChristopher J. Nolan
ISBN0571210473
Christopher Nolan's Memento is an intricate, original, fascinating thriller, hailed by Philip French of the Observer as 'one of the year's most exciting pictures'. Its protagonist Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a puzzle, even to himself. He sports the trappings of an expensive lifestyle, yet he lives in...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Rushmore
AuthorWes Anderson
ISBN0571200125
Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial...
Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror
AuthorMichael Mallory
ISBN0789318962
From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these...
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,...
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...
Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories
AuthorPeter Hanson
ISBN0061855928
Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch...
Alien Vault: The Definitive Story of the Making of the Film
AuthorIan Nathan
ISBN0760341125
For over thirty years, audiences have been simultaneously captivated and appalled as the spaceship Nostromo is invaded and its crew stalked by a terrifying parasitic creature. From the gore of the infant alien bursting from Kane’s chest to the mounting claustrophobia as Ripley discovers the monster...
The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made
AuthorDavid Hughes
ISBN1845767551
What if I Am Legend had been directed by Ridley Scott, and had starred Arnold Schwarzenegger? What if James Cameron had directed Spider-Man?

This groundbreaking book, now fully updated and revised, tells the story of legendary unmade films. What would Terry Gilliam’s Watchmen have...
Conversations with Scorsese
AuthorRichard Schickel
ISBN0307268403
Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, The Departed, The Aviator, Shutter Island: these are just a few of the critically acclaimed films, startling experimental works, and spectacular commercial blockbusters with which Martin Scorsese has forever enriched...
Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
AuthorJudith B. Kerman
ISBN0879725109
This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, especially the film's relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by...
30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want to Go to There
AuthorWilliam Irwin
ISBN0470575581
A fascinating exploration of the philosophy behind NBC's hit TV series, 30 Rock With edgy writing and a great cast, 30 Rock is one of the funniest television shows on the air--and where hilarity ensues, philosophical questions abound: Are Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy ethical heroes? Kenneth redefines...
Poker: The Real Deal
AuthorPhil Gordon
ISBN0689875908
Like a secret society, poker has its own language and customs -- its own governing logic and rules of etiquette that the uninitiated may find intimidating. It's a game of skill, and playing well depends on more than just a good hand or the ability to hide emotion. The first step toward developing a style...
A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman
AuthorRobert Phillip Kolker
ISBN0195123506
In this twentieth-anniversary millennial edition, Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the cinematic representation of culture by updating and revising the chapters on the directors discussed in the first edition-- Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and Steven Spielberg--...
The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
AuthorJ.W. Rinzler
ISBN0345431383
This is it–the climax of the greatest science fiction movie epic of all time, and Star Wars fans can venture behind the scenes for all the fascinating details. From the first story discussions to the final stages of post-production, The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is an exclusive, unprecedented...
Grindhouse: The Sleaze-Filled Saga of an Exploitation Double Feature
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN1602860149
Join directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez as they resurrect the blood-soaked, sex-fueled exploitation double features of the "grindhouse" circuit. Together with cast and crew, Tarantino and Rodriguez chronicle the making of not one but two motion pictures: Quentin Tarantino's Death...
The Stanley Kubrick Archives
AuthorChristiane Kubrick
ISBN3822822841
The first book to explore Stanley Kubrick's archives is also the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date Part 1: The films In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: ?It's not a message I ever intended to convey in...
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made
AuthorAlison Castle
ISBN3836523353
The fascinating tale of Kubrick’s unfilmed masterpiece

Now available in an unlimited, single-volume edition!

For 40 years, Kubrick fans and film buffs have wondered about the director's mysterious unmade film on Napoleon Bonaparte. Slated for production immediately following...
Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific War
AuthorPeter G. Tsouras
ISBN0345490169
In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents–chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside–that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the...
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