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Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)

10 best books like Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh) (John Hodge): Porno, Memento & Following, The Annotated Godfather, Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint, In Bruges, Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories, Being John Malkovich, Jackie Brown, Young Adam, Clerks & Chasing Amy

Porno
AuthorIrvine Welsh
ISBN8433972618
In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a...
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...
The Annotated Godfather
AuthorJenny M. Jones
ISBN1579127398
This fully authorized, annotated, and illustrated edition of the complete screenplay of The Godfather presents all the little-known details and behind-the-scenes intrigue surrounding the landmark film.

The Godfather is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made, from its...
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
AuthorSpike Lee
ISBN0671682652
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...
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...
Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories
AuthorWoody Allen
ISBN0394712293
My earliest familiarity with Woody Allen is the voice of Z in the animated classic, Antz (1998). More recently, I watched Magic in the Moonlight (2014) and Irrational Man (2015) because I think Emily Stone is brilliant and ravishing. I had never seen Annie Hall (1977), Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979),...
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...
Jackie Brown
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN0786883499
JACKIE BROWN (2 hours 34 minutes)

Jackie Brown is in her mid-forties, but looks like she's in her thirties. She's a "knockout."

Tarantino continues to use the phrase, "beeline" on 146.

Variations of the n-word are used 29 times, mostly by Ordell. Jackie uses it sparingly,...
Young Adam
AuthorAlexander Trocchi
ISBN0802139779
Joe is a drifter who works as a hired hand on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the story opens, he finds the corpse of a young woman drifting downstream. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes apparent that Joe knew...
Clerks & Chasing Amy
AuthorKevin Smith
ISBN0786882638
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...
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...
The Truman Show: The Shooting Script
AuthorAndrew Niccol
ISBN1557043671
Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is the unwitting star of a nonstop, 24-hour-a-day documentary soap opera called The Truman Show, with every moment of his life broadcast to a worldwide audience. Everyone around him is an actor. He is a prisoner...
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...
American Beauty: The Shooting Script
AuthorAlan Ball
ISBN1557044236
On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax.

Captivated by Jane's...
Fargo
AuthorJoel Coen
ISBN0571179630
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...
The Cucumber King
AuthorChristine Nöstlinger
Just when you think you've read every possible children's book plot...you run across The Cucumber King. I've just finished another of Christine Nöstlinger's 1001 Children's Books You Must Read books, the innocuous-sounding (it's far from that) Fly Away Home, so I knew enough about Nöstlinger...
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...
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AuthorDustin Lance Black
ISBN1580818897
George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Martin Sheen lead an all-star cast in a powerful portrait of an American civil rights struggle, written by Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) and directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men). In November 2008, California's Proposition 8 stripped the freedom...
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