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1l_aurens
Okt. 22, 2006, 5:24 pm

Hellow, fellow cine-fans! I'm wondering if any of you have a favorite book on a single, or a few, films. I'm asking because I'm writing one at the moment and have very few *good* models for organizing it; how do you structure something that doesn't have a natural chronology (where do you talk about the themes as opposed to the directing, etc) and wanted to know what you all thought. Has a book about a single film every struck you as a compulsive read in itself?

2lilithcat
Okt. 22, 2006, 5:53 pm

Other than screenplays, one book that springs to mind is Katharine Hepburn's The Making of The African Queen.

3VictoriaPL
Bearbeitet: Jun. 15, 2007, 3:35 pm

I found Future Noir : The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon to be very interesting.

(thanks for the help with the touchstone, skippersan)

4skippersan
Jun. 15, 2007, 12:32 pm

VictoriaPL: The title in the database has the problem. If you out a space before the colon, it will probably work.

l_aurens: I liked Adventures in the Screen Trade : a personal view of Hollywood and screenwriting by William Goldman. It talks about different styles of screenwriting and directing, and how they can clash. It also includes a complete draft of one of Goldman's screenplays (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).

5marise
Bearbeitet: Jun. 15, 2007, 8:01 pm

The Prince, the Showgirl and Me: six months on the set with Marilyn Monroe and Olivier.
Picture by Lillian Ross, originally a series of articles she wrote for the New Yorker about John Huston making the film "Red Badge of Courage."
Both entertaining books, as was the Hepburn book mentioned by lilithcat.

6KromesTomes
Jun. 15, 2007, 1:41 pm

The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon was excellent ... might be especially interesting to folks here as it's specifically about making a book (Bonfire of the Vanities) into a movie.