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Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez Staff Pick Robert Rodriguez threw down seven thousand dollars on his debut film El Mariachi, but you only need to spend a fraction of that to get all the insights that he learned. Anybody who's seen his later films (Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) will know... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri Staff Pick If you begged me to give you the title of one "how-to" book on the topic of screenwriting and wouldn't give up until I told you, then it would have to be this classic introduction to the craft. Often used as a textbook in screenwriting classes, Lajos... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Staff Pick Arguably the most talented filmmaking siblings around, the Coens have blessed the cinema with their unique blend of dark humor, kinetic insanity, and mid-western values. To open one of their screenplays is to behold some of the finest screenwriting... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays Volume 2: The Hospital, Network, Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky Staff Pick In many ways Chayefsky's work has melded the diametrically opposed concepts of the studio driven era of the '50s with the emergence of the new Hollywood in the '60s and '70s. Starting in television, Chayefsky made an impact with his 1953 teleplay Marty... (read more) Your price: $21.50 New - Trade Paper
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Human Nature: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either case... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking in Pictures: The Making of Matewan by John Sayles Staff Pick Before you even begin to write your screenplay you need to know how to visualize it. Thinking in Pictures is more than just John Sayles's account of what it took to make his intellectually satisfying film Matewan — it is also a primer for the would-be... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either case... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die by Tom Moon Staff Pick Like the kid in high school who always made mix tapes, Tom Moon has compiled an authoritative cross-section of music, from classical composers to modern electronica artists, in 1,000 Recording to Hear before You Die. Each of his selections features not... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Adaptation: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Which Lie Did I Tell? : More Adventures in the Screen Trade (00 Edition) by William Goldman Staff Pick "Nobody knows anything." William Goldman has given us these three simple words to sum up the backroom chatter and deal making that goes on between studio executives trying to figure out why one movie becomes a hit and another tanks. Of course there is no... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman Staff Pick "Nobody knows anything." William Goldman has given us these three simple words to sum up the backroom chatter and deal making that goes on between studio executives trying to figure out why one movie becomes a hit and another tanks. Of course there is no... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Framework: A History of Screenwriting in the American Film by Tom Stempel Staff Pick My favorite anecdote from this history of screenwriting is about Columbia studio head Harry Cohn. The story goes that one afternoon Cohn was walking past the writer's building on the Columbia lot. When he heard no sound of keys tapping through the open... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Being John Malkovich (Faber and Faber Screenplays) by Charlie Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either case... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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