Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
By: Brian Raftery
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of …
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By: Peter Biskind
4.12
Format: None pages,
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2. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
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3. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
By: Peter Biskind
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines the S… read more
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4. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
By: Mark Harris
4.10
Format: None pages,
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5. The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
By: Julie Salamon
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking" ( Newsweek ), now the basis for the … read more
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6. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
7. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
8. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
By: Kyle Buchanan
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more
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9. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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10. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
By: Joanna Robinson
4.22
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more
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11. Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic funnymen who ruled '80s Hollywood—Bill Murray, Steve Mart… read more
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"Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck". If you can't say it, you can't do it."-Nick de Semlyen, Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
12. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
By: Melissa Maerz
4.40
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took… read more
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"Richard Linklater: First, we became a midnight film. We would play for an entire year at certain theaters. They would turn it into a mini-concert where you go in the theater and you could smell the p…"-Melissa Maerz, Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
13. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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14. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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15. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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16. Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
By: Brian Raftery
4.07
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of … read more
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17. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
By: Sam Wasson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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18. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television
By: Peter Biskind
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more
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19. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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20. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
By: Thea Glassman
3.84
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Lif… read more
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21. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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