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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin  
Powells.com Staff Pick At times uproarious, often sentimental, and always laced with the wit and charm we've come to expect from Steve Martin, this is a warm and enjoyable portrait of his life in stand-up from childhood to his last show in 1981. Recommended by Ann, Powells....
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Art of Dramatic Writing Rev Edition
by Lajos Egri
Powells.com 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...
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Chocolat (Tie-In)
by Joanne Harris
Powells.com Staff Pick An enchanting novel about a small French village turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolatier, Vianne, and her daughter. Insistent upon opening a chocolate shop just before Lent, Vianne turns the local priest into her archenemy. As...
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick In the nineties, while Americans were looking to cloying John Gray to explain the differences between men and women, the Brits were having a much better time learning about the foibles of gender from two of their best satirists. Taken together...
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight...
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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
Powells.com 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...
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman
Powells.com 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...
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating exploration of the art of film editing (among other pursuits) in the form of extended conversations between acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Oscar-winning film editor Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now...
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Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation
by Chris Turner
Powells.com Staff Pick The best book yet about the most enduring television show of its generation. Chris Turner had me cracking up out loud, over and over again. Recommended by Dave, Powells.com...
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The Whole Equation: A History of Holywood
by David Thomson
Powells.com Staff Pick Borrowing its title from Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, this anecdotal history uses Chinatown as a template for the good and ill in the film industry, and covers the seamy, sordid, fascinating story of how a little desert town became what we know today as...
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Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters
by Jacques Boyreau
Powells.com Staff Pick "In the world of movies, my favorites have always been exploitation films. As a kid, I was fascinated by the lurid ads in our hometown newspaper of the movies playing at local theatres and drive-ins. I was lucky enough to have a father who enjoyed and...
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The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
by David Thomson
Powells.com Staff Pick Borrowing its title from Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, this anecdotal history uses Chinatown as a template for the good and ill in the film industry, and covers the seamy, sordid, fascinating story of how a little desert town became what we know today as...
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Little Children (Movie Tie-In)
by Tom Perrotta
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-N-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't know much about film, but I can keep up with the best Hollywood gossipers. In an attempt to elevate and justify my shameful interest in the lives of celebrities, I found a terrific book. Easy Riders Raging Bulls begins with Hollywood in bad...
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman
Powells.com 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...
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating exploration of the art of film editing (among other pursuits) in the form of extended conversations between acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Oscar-winning film editor Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now...
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Music of Chance (90 Edition)
by Paul Auster
Powells.com Staff Pick The Music of Chance is a well-crafted story about taking risks — and what can happen if you lose. A driver picks up a hitchhiker and convinces him to go play some poker against two rich eccentrics in Pennsylvania. Things don't go well for the...
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Thinking in Pictures : Making of Matewan (87 Edition)
by John Sayles
Powells.com 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...
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Little Children
by Tom Perrotta
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the...
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The Alchemy of MirrorMask
by Dave McKean
Powells.com Staff Pick Inspired by fantasy classics Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean created their own imaginative epic, MirrorMask. This exquisite volume presents artist/director McKean's photographs, concept sketches, storyboards, production...
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