Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
By: Oliver Stone
4.10
Format: 373 pages, ebook
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about…
Want to Read $ 14.39"No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
"Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
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1. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
By: Philip Caputo
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series T… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
2. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir
By: William Friedkin
4.13
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The Fren… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- film
- media tie in
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
4.12
Format: None pages,
This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more
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- history
- biography
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
4. The Kid Stays in the Picture
By: Robert Evans
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with … read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- media tie in
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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6. Raylan
By: Elmore Leonard
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash cr… read more
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7. Adventures in the Screen Trade
By: William Goldman
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more
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8. Dispatches
By: Michael Herr
4.22
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- nonfiction
"for years now there had been no country here but the war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
9. 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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- history
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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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
11. 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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- biography
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- film
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
12. The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film
By: W.K. Stratton
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton’s definitive history of the making of The W… read more
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- history
- biography
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
13. 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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- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- media tie in
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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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- history
- biography
- film
- media tie in
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
By: Sam Wasson
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more
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- history
- biography
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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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- history
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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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- biography
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
By: Glenn Kenny
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For the thirtieth anniversary of its premiere comes the vivid and immersive history behind Martin S… read more
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" Irwin Winkler did not share the credit of “Producer."-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
"Barbara De Fina said that Irwin Winkler was, and has been, “ nothing but nasty "-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
"Who found the material, who pursued the material and how, who bought the material, whose account is true or accurate: these might not seem consequential questions now. But they have definite implicat…"-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
19. Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
By: Oliver Stone
4.10
Format: 373 pages, ebook
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- war
- media tie in
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
"Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change."-Oliver Stone, Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
20. Life's Work: A Memoir
By: David Milch
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiabl… read more
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- memoir
- film
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
By: Isaac Butler
4.26
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE N… read more
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- biography
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook