Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

My Movie Business: A Memoir

John Irving · 176 pages

I Want It Now! a Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Julie Dawn Cole · 250 pages

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans · 480 pages

An autobiographical account of the life and times of Robert Evans, Hollywood producer who worked on Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Marathon Man, Chinatown The Cottonwood Club and many other films.

There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale - A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Lord of the Rings

Sean Astin, Joe Layden, Joe Layden

Lynch on Lynch

David Lynch, Chris Rodley · 304 pages

With Nails: The Film Diaries Of Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant · 320 pages

Woody Allen on Woody Allen

Stig Bjorkman, Woody Allen · 312 pages

Woody Allen on Woody Allen is a unique self-portrait of this uncompromising filmmaker that offers a revealing account of his life and work. In a series of rare, in-depth interviews, Allen brings us onto the sets and behind the scenes of all his films. Woody Allen on Woody Allen is punctuated with his memories and opinions: afternoon movie-watching while growing up in Brooklyn; anecdotes about the

An Unsuitable Boy

Karan Johar, Poonam Saxena · 352 pages

xiii, 216 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

Bruce Campbell · 324 pages

My Week With Marilyn

Colin Clark

Adventures in the Screen Trade

William Goldman · 425 pages

Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.

Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

Richard Ayoade · 320 pages

"Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself"--Publisher's description.

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell · 279 pages

"In 2003, an independent film called The Room--starring and written, produced, directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau--made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as "like getting stabbed in the head," the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

Rob Lowe · 344 pages

A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.

Hitchcock

François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott · 311 pages

Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director

Lloyd Kaufman, Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga · 329 pages

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

David Gilmour · 247 pages

"I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss." --- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls"If all sons had dads like David Gilmour, then Oedipus would be a forgotten legend and Father's Day would be a worldwide film festival."--Sean Wilsey, author of Oh

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)

Emma Thompson · 287 pages

It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive

Mark Kermode · 336 pages

Reel life adventures of a film obsessiveTo avoid fainting, keep repeatingIt's only a move..only a movie..only a movie..only a movieIf you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage expose of the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your formative years a

Twilight Director's Notebook : The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer

Catherine Hardwicke · 163 pages

In this intimate book, readers will follow visionary director Catherine Hardwicke through the creative process that went into transforming Stephenie Meyer's breathtaking novel into box office gold. Discover the inside secrets on wardrobe, storyboard sketches, behind-the-scenes photographs, personal notes about Catherine's favorite scenes, and much more.

Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

Robert Rodriguez · 294 pages

Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988

Michael Palin · 666 pages

This second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful 'Monty Python's Meaning of Life'.

James Cameron's Titanic

Ed W. Marsh, Douglas Kirkland, James Cameron · 192 pages

Describes the monumental efforts that went into the creation of the major motion picture that re-created the final voyage of the "ship of dreams," otherwise known as the Titanic.

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

Paul Fischer · 353 pages

"A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, [this book] offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today"--Amazon.com.