Adventures in the Screen Trade

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455525464
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Enter Hollywood's inner sanctums in this gosippy and honest book, named one the top 100 film books of all time by The Hollywood Reporter, by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Primcess Bride. No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films . . . .into the plush offices of Hollywood producers . . ..into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.."

Adventures in the Screen Trade

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455525464
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Wait Till Next Year

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553282269
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
The big names and big games are all in this story of the 1987 New York Baseball Season. Two pros pool their talents for an inside ticket to a season's worth of legends and louses. "Read the book Steinbrenner and a host of other sports notables will want to burn. It's a beauty".--Elmore Leonard.

Adventures in the Screen Trade

Author: William Goldman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780751505771
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.

Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade

Author: William Froug
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Unlocks the mysteries of commercially successful screen drama.

Which Lie Did I Tell?

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307764796
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of All the President's Men, The Princess Bride, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, here is essential reading for both the aspiring screenwriter and anyone who loves going to the movies. If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in Misery, it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work in Maverick didn't make the final cut, William Goldman gives you the straight truth. Why Clint Eastwood loves working with Gene Hackman and how MTV has changed movies for the worse,William Goldman, one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood today, tells all he knows. Devastatingly eye-opening and endlessly entertaining, Which Lie Did I Tell? is indispensable reading for anyone even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.

Adventures in the Screen Trade

Author: William Goldman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780446383868
Category : Motion picture authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description

The Right Stuff

Author: Tom Charity
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1839020458
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
This study places 'The Right Stuff' in the historical context of the political history of the Space Race. It explores director Philip Kaufman's subversive adventurism, his mastery of cinematic form, and the way in which the film combines the mythology of the Western with counter-cultural concerns.

Somebody

Author: Stefan Kanfer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400078040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three. Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer looks at each of Brando’s films over the years—from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001—offering deft and insightful analysis of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling performances. And, finally, Kanfer brings into focus Brando’s self-destructiveness, ambivalence toward his craft, and the tragedies that shadowed his last years.

Richard Attenborough

Author: Sally Dux
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526111780
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Richard Attenborough’s film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux’s book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work behind the camera, she explores his initial role as a producer, including his partnerships with Bryan Forbes in Beaver Films (1959–64) and with Allied Film Makers (1960–64). As we know, Attenborough went on to direct twelve films, many of which achieved great acclaim, most notably Gandhi, which won eight Academy Awards in 1982 Attenborough is most renowned for his biographical films including Young Winston, Cry Freedom, Chaplin and Shadowlands, which helped to establish the genre within British cinema. Although his work has often attracted controversy, particularly regarding the representation of individuals and historical events, his films are noted for extracting acclaimed performances from unknown actors such as Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), while maintaining his moral and thematic concerns.