Collected Screenplays

Author: Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571142668
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
Since his death in 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky has become increasingly recognized as one of the great masters of world cinema. In his films, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker and The Sacrifice, Tarkovsky defined a new way of looking at the world. His non-realistic, highly-charged images are a continuing source of inspiration - not only for a new generation of film-makers, but also for poets, musicians and painters. This volume collects his great works for the first time in one volume, as well as three of his unproduced screenplays. This material provides a unique glimpse into the way Tarkovsky's vision evolved from the printed text to its final form on celluloid. The book also contains an extended essay by film critic and historian Ian Christie, who places Tarkovsky's work in the context of Soviet film-making practice.

Collected Screenplays

Author: Paul Schrader
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Paul Schrader is US cinema's hardcore intellectual. This title collects three of his finest screenplays, Taxi Driver, American Gigolo and Light Sleeper, that form a kind of triptych devoted to a single, soulful character.

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1

Author: Ethan Coen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571210961
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 537

Book Description
These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink--an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood--is a masterful culmination of these themes.

The Dark Knight Trilogy

Author: Christopher Nolan
Publisher: Opus Books
ISBN: 1623160006
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description
(Book). At nearly six hundred pages, The Dark Knight Trilogy , a behemoth of script and storyboards, captures on the page the dark mythic expanse of the cinematic Batman. These definitive, vibrant film blueprints published on the heels of the final film's closely guarded release are destined to be enshrined on every fan's bedside table, studied in universities, and emulated by filmmakers.

American Gigolo

Author: Timothy Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440002185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
American gigolo Julian Kay speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an executive. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a husband of a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect.

Five Screenplays

Author: Preston Sturges
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520055640
Category : Motion picture plays
Languages : en
Pages : 856

Book Description
Five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema."

Hanif Kureishi

Author: Hanif Kureishi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571214334
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
This title contains a collection of the screenplays written by Hanif Kureishi.

The West Wing Script Book

Author: Aaron Sorkin
Publisher: Newmarket Shooting Scripts
ISBN: 9781557044990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description

Blood Simple

Author: Joel Coen
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312021689
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Director Joel Coen's and producer Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984, River Road Prods/Circle Releasing/Palace) is a contemporary noir thriller set in Texas. A taut, convoluted plot and imaginative direction made the independent release a word-of-mouth hit and established the Coen brothers' reputation for originality. Actors John Getz, Frances McDormand, and Dan Hedaya appear in the story in which a woman commits adultery, and her enraged husband hires a killer for revenge. Blackmail, violence, and mistaken assumptions lead to an edgy, exhilarating climax.

The Proust Screenplay

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571160976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Early in 1972 the film director Joesph Losey asked Harold Pinter if he would work on a screen adaptation of Marcel Proust's famous sequence of novels A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. He agreed and after a year's work the result is this book.