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William Goldman: Four Screenplays

10 best books like William Goldman: Four Screenplays (William Goldman): The Annotated Godfather, Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories, Being John Malkovich, Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay, The Truman Show: The Shooting Script, Goodfellas: Screenplay, Fargo, Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay, Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker, Magnolia: The Shooting Script

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker
AuthorAnthony Lane
ISBN0375714340
Anthony Lane on Con Air—

“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about...
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....
Chinatown
AuthorRobert Towne
ISBN0571202241
1930s Los Angeles. Jake Gittes is a successful 'bedroom dick': a private eye specialising in cases of marital infidelity. Paradoxically he might also be the last truly ethical man in a corrupt town. Lured into an investigation of the death-by-drowning of City Water Commissioner Hollis Mulwray, Gittes...
Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night/The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries/The Magician
AuthorIngmar Bergman
ISBN0671678337
s/t: Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries & The Magician
Ingmar Bergman has been acclaimed throughout the world as one of the most brilliant filmmakers of our time. This collection of screenplays for a quartet of his most distinguished films shows that he's also a writer...
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
AuthorMartin Scorsese
ISBN0786863285
كتاب گشت و گذاري با مارتين اسكورسيزي در سينماي امريكا
كتاب بسيار جالبي ميباشد كتابي در مورد تاريخ سينماي هاليوود و كارگردانان تاثير گذار ان.
اين كتاب...
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 Hateful Eight
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino returns with his most infamous, most brilliant, most masterful screenplay yet...

At the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue...
How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make
AuthorDenny Martin Flinn
ISBN1580650155
I looked at over a dozen books giving advice on how to write a screenplay for a feature film before I chose "How Not to Write a Screenplay." The other books were filled with fluffy, meaningless encouragement like "Before you turn in your Oscar-winning script..." My eyes couldn't roll back far enough into...
Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
AuthorSharon Waxman
ISBN0060540184
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...
Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read
AuthorMichael Hauge
ISBN1932907203
After attending a horrible pitch workshop, this book saved my pitch, just in time for a writer's conference. Hauge is correct when he says his templates and guidelines are a place to START, that you really have to tweak your pitch and add YOU to it. So when I pitched to a combined 5 producers and agents I had...
Setting Up Your Shots: Great Camera Moves Every Filmmaker Should Know
AuthorJeremy Vineyard
ISBN0941188736
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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...
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