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Not a pure film book, but Mara Wilson’s excellent memoir recounts her early experiences as a child actor, and how that conflicted with the personal tragedy she was going through at the same time. Films greenlighted on his watch include The Terminator, The Silence Of The Lambs, Cliffhanger, and Sleepless In Seattle. One day, I was talking to a screenwriting student at my school, and I mentioned that I would love to see more stories about grief and multicultural experiences and she mentioned that she had just written a feature that incorporates exactly both those things. Staying faithful to Irvine Welsh’s intense and graphic book wouldn’t have served the interests of film. From the heady heights of heading up Paramount in the 1970s, to a fast fall from the top fuelled by excess, Robert Evans has quite a tale to tell.

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On Directing Film helps explain the conception of ideas, how they move through the business pipeline and how to seize opportunities. But the 2017 film is a better watch all-round, and went on to become the highest grossing horror movie of all time. An unofficial guide to the putting together of the Back To The Future films, albeit with enough access to key personnel to give it a bit of extra lift. One of those stories comes to life in this biographical drama about Billie Holliday as she's targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics. Contributions come from the likes of Frank Darabont, the late Nora Ephron, William Goldman and Shane Black, amongst many others.Fox’s voice is engrained through Lucky Man, and it’s a rounded, moving and very human piece of work. Denis Villeneuve ( Blade Runner 2049) is the perfect director to bring this trippy, terrifying, totally unique vision to life. But it’s most haunting for the stories of what it’s like being a child star, with a very pushy parent. The same style permeates Hellraisers, his charting of the movie and drinking careers of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed.

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Johann Hari's Chasing the Screamis a fascinating look at some of the most horrific stories from the War on Drugs, undermining everything we think we know about that campaign.This upcoming film by director Antoine Fuqua reimagines the premise as a man (Wahlberg) begins to realize he's hallucinating his past lives.

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It is a stunning adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, with director Denis Villeneuve cementing himself as one of the greatest sci-fie directors around. Not ostenisbly a movie book, Don Hahn’s Brain Storm is nonetheless bursting with movie anecdotes, of particular interest to animation fans. He shows you how to approach the script, how to direct actors, how to communicate with cinematographers, how to collaborate with producers, and how to edit your project for maximum effectiveness. Not only may you find a new passion but you may also uncover a hidden talent that you weren’t even aware of. When shown on television in 1979, the adaptation of John le Carré’s much-admired Cold War spy thriller ran to 315 minutes over seven episodes.Wiseguy, by journalist Nicolas Pileggi, is a celebrated work of non-fiction that told the story of mobster-turned-FBI informant Henry Hill and his life in and around the Lucchese family for 25 years. Still, there’s nothing like getting a director’s take on the process of filmmaking — and no one has put it to the page with more warmth and wisdom than the late, great Lumet ( Dog Day Afternoon, Network, 12 Angry Men), whose wonderfully conversational guidebook strolls leisurely through development, technique, editing, and working with actors.

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As a manager and producer, he had access to lots of behind the scenes stories, and he shares many of them, from a slightly different perspective than many others can offer. sees producer Art Linson taking us through his world of movie-making, and the difficulties that lie wherein.I was producing a short film and needed a cinematographer so I asked my cinematography instructor to recommend some students in his department that may be a good fit for the project. Margaret Mitchell’s novel ran to an incredible 1,037 pages and the film is similarly unstinting in its devotion to telling the story, clocking in at nearly four hours. But the bonus here is in the proverbial margins, as Hahn offers tips and examples from across his movie making career. Netflix acquired the rights to the filmin November 2020, after it originally debuted at Sundance in 2018.