 | David Lean: A Biography by Kevin Brownlow
Buy used from: £4.84 The ultimate biography of one of the most enigmatic figures in modern cinema. If you are going to read one book on one great Director make it this one. .
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 | Rosebud: Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
Buy used from: £0.01 Inspiring, Moving, compelling and magical. This book gives an almost mystical account of one of the true innovators in modern cinema
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 | Stanley Kubrick: A Biography by John Baxter
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £1.71 There are many books on Kubrick but this is the most complete account of his films and his life I have read. Shows the human face behind the myth.
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 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly documents one of the most exciting periods in cinema. How Biskind has avoided being sued is anyone's guess.
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 | Lynch on Lynch (Directors on Directors) by David Lynch
Buy used from: £0.10 A brave attempt to get Lynch to explain his work. Succeeds in getting inside the mind of one of modern America's cultural icons.
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 | Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death by Christopher Frayling
Buy new: £16.00 / Used from: £10.00 Exhausting but affectionate biog of the father of Spaghetti westerns.
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 | "Godfather" Book by Peter Cowie
Buy new: £9.70 / Used from: £0.01 The best of The Godfather books. Coppola's war with Paramount on 1 and 2 is brilliantly documented. It is easy to see why the films have become landmarks in American cinema.
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 | Cronenberg on Cronenberg (Directors on Directors) by David Cronenberg
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £2.71 In these compelling interviews, Cronenburg gives us a rare insight into what motivates him as a Director. His thoughts are as weird and disturbed as the films themselves.
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 | "If They Move... Kill 'Em!": The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle
Buy used from: £12.20 Forthright and brutal. Peckinpah is portrayed as a womanizing, hard drinking mad genius who let his career go down in flames. The book is unsparing in its treatment of one of Hollywoods true mavericks
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 | The Battle of "Brazil": Terry Gilliam V Universal Pictures - The Fight to the Final Cut of a Film Classic (Applause Screenplay Series): Terry Gilliam ... Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut by Jack Mathews
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £8.29 One of the finest Director versus the studio accounts ever written. Even if you don't like the film you'll admire Gilliam's courage and audacity.
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 | Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £3.99 Wonderful insight into the Hollywood machine. Will either put you off working in the movies or have you booking your flight to LA within the first few pages.
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 | Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors) by Terry Gilliam
Buy new: £7.35 / Used from: £3.45 Another Gilliam book but funnier because it comes from the horses mouth. The Baron Munchausen chapter shows how bizarre and breathtaking film-making can be.
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