Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
9 best books like Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade (William Goldman): Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s, Scorsese on Scorsese, Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Conversations with Wilder, You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again, The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco
Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World
| Author | David Koenig |
| ISBN | 0964060523 |
The first in-depth, unauthorized look at the creation and operation of the world's most popular vacation destination. The author of the best-selling Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland reveals how Walt Disney's City of Tomorrow evolved into a sprawling resort where?despite extraordinary...
| Author | Otto Friedrich |
| ISBN | 0520209494 |
If you were going to have only one book on Hollywood, this is it. Beyond essential. Beyond ... well anything. Any book that combines the Marx Brothers with Thomas Mann with Howard Hughes with Brecht with Sam Goldwyn with ... It just goes on and it's one great story after another.
The key thing is...
| Author | David Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571178278 |
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...
| Author | Sharon Waxman |
| ISBN | 0060540184 |
The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries of moviemaking and announced to the world that something exciting was happening in...
| Author | Michael Ondaatje |
| ISBN | 0375709827 |
The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.
It was on the...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
| Author | Cameron Crowe |
| ISBN | 0375709673 |
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,...
| Author | Julia Phillips |
| ISBN | 0571216234 |
Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of The Sting. She went on to work with two of the hottest young directorial talents of the era: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) and Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the...
| Author | Julie Salamon |
| ISBN | 0306811235 |
"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...
