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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

8 best books like The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Michael Ondaatje): Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade, Scorsese on Scorsese, Making Movies, Conversations with Wilder, On Directing Film, In the Blink of an Eye, The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
AuthorHoward Schultz
ISBN1605292885
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its...
Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
AuthorWilliam Goldman
ISBN0747553173
Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as...
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...
Making Movies
AuthorSidney Lumet
ISBN0679756604
lumet's an interesting guy to think about if one decides to make a film -- the guy's made some of the best films of our time. but for me, lumet provides a cautionary tale of what not to become.

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Conversations with Wilder
AuthorCameron Crowe
ISBN0375709673
In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.

Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs,...
On Directing Film
AuthorDavid Mamet
ISBN0140127224
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition...
In the Blink of an Eye
AuthorWalter Murch
ISBN1879505622
In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of...
The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco
AuthorJulie Salamon
ISBN0306811235
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking."--Newsweek


When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were...
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