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March 2010
At the Movies
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George Lucas's Blockbusting
A Decade by Decade Survey of Timeless Movies
Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success
Alex Ben Block
A comprehensive look at 300 of the most financially and/or critically
successful motion pictures of all time, many made despite seemingly
insurmountable economic, cultural, and political challenges set against the
prevailing production, distribution, exhibition, marketing, and technology
trends of each decade in movie business history. $29.99
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Star:
How Warren Beatty Seduced America
Peter Biskind
Peter Biskind offers this candid biography of Hollywood legend Warren
Beatty, based in part on new interviews with colleagues and intimates
as well as Beatty himself. Biskind examines Beatty's dual and often
dueling status as Hollywood legend and notorious womanizer without
letting either subsume the other. $30.00
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Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies
A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie
Ever Made
Michael Adams
Featuring a cast of thousands and firsthand interviews with bad movie
aficionados, from Leonard Maltin and David Sedaris to John Waters and Eli Roth, this odyssey charts one intrepid critic as he watches hundreds of
dreadful tapes and DVDs in every conceivable genre. $13.99
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Screen Epiphanies:
Filmmakers on the Films That Inspired Them
Geoffrey Macnab
In this unique volume, thirty five leading international filmmakers explain
their reasons for pursuing a career in the movie industry, and reveal the film
moments that stayed with them long after they left the movie theater. $29.00
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Tales from the Script
50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories
Peter Hanson and Paul Robert Herman
Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating
collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how
they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they
transformed their ideas into box office blockbusters and how they
earned accolades and Academy Awards. $15.99
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Kazan on Directing
Elia Kazan
This remarkable book, drawn from Elia Kazan's notebooks, letters,
interviews, and autobiography, reveals his method: how he uncovered
the "spine," or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms
of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his
production. $17.95 |
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