FilmBooks A-M
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
In 1983 William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade first hit the bookstores and ever since it has become a handbook for Hollywood screenwriters or anyone trying to understand the movie business. The book explores Goldman’s amazing career as novelist and screenwriter while exposing the Hollywood movie-making machine. Read the rest of this entry »
All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
If there is a new favorite madman in my life it is Lloyd Kaufman. This book was impossible to stop reading. Kaufman’s story is that of many struggling filmmakers who fail early and stop producing, only he doesn’t stop. The story of Kaufman’s career and the formation of Troma Studios is one of inspiring determination, a great love of cinema and a whacked out sense of creativity and audience savvy. Read the rest of this entry »
Conversations with Wilder
After reading this book I not only had a new-found appreciation for directing legend Billy Wilder, but also for journalist, director, author Cameron Crowe.Conversations with Wilder is the record of a series of interviews that Crowe conducted with Billy Wilder during the time he was also writing his personal bio-pic “Almost Famous”. The book depicts [...]
