Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
By: Mark Seal
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of…
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1. 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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2. The Making of the Godfather
By: Mario Puzo
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Audio
In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to… read more
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3. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
By: Stephen Rebello
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Stephen Rebello's groundbreaking book offers the complete inside story on the making of Alfred Hitc… read more
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4. The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
By: Mario Puzo , Peter Bart , Robert Thompson
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon. Almost fifty … read more
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"Life is so beautiful"-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
"Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes."-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
5. The Fortunate Pilgrim
By: Mario Puzo
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and s… read more
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6. 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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7. 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
8. 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
9. The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
By: Ron Shelton
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely enterta… read more
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10. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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
14. Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos
By: Michael Imperioli
4.22
Format: 509 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I will be reading and rereading Woke Up This Morning ....These r… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
By: Mark Seal
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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
24. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
By: Michael Benson
4.40
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, this is the definitive story of the mak… read more
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"If you can describe it, I can film it."-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
"In a 1972 story titled “The Big Space Fuck,"-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
"What we want is a smashing theme of mythic grandeur."-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
"As for HAL singing “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two),"-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
25. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
By: Charles Elton
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more
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26. A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More
By: Paul Hirsch
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
"For its sheer excellence, diversity, and cultural impact, Paul Hirsch's filmography speaks for its… read more
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27. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando
By: William J. Mann
4.09
Format: 736 pages, ebook
Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly B… read more
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28. Secrets of the Force: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars
By: Edward Gross
3.79
Format: 554 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The Fifty-Year Mission and So Say We All , comes the first and only comprehensi… read more
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29. THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING SUSPECT NO. 1: The Man Who Got Away
By: Lise Pearlman
4.16
Format: 573 pages, Kindle Edition
In the depths of the Depression, millions worldwide followed every twist and turn of the Lindbergh … read more
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30. Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob
By: Gianni Russo
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality… read more
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31. 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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