Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
By: Glenn Frankel
4.23
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scene…
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1. Midnight Cowboy
By: James Leo Herlihy
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Joe Buck, naively charming Texan cowboy, seeks his fortune in the Big Apple, but encounters Ratso R… read more
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2. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
By: Mark Harris
4.10
Format: None pages,
Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 19… read more
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3. 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
4. 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
5. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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6. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- history
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7. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Philip Gefter
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more
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12. 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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13. 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
14. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- history
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15. 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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16. Hilma af Klint: A Biography
By: Julia Voss
4.29
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter … read more
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17. Kubrick: An Odyssey
By: Robert P. Kolker
4.26
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more
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18. From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
By: Scott Meslow
4.03
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tra… read more
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19. The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
By: Luke Mogelson
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accele… read more
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20. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
By: Glenn Frankel
4.23
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scene… read more
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21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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