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Faber & Faber Annie HallScreenplay
Book SynopsisNew York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and tie. But they shared a self-deprecating sense of humour, plus certain deep-seated neuroses, and love soon blossomed. Alvy supported Annie''s hopes for a singing career and encouraged her to broaden her talents. But ironically, her increasing self-assurance, coupled with Alvy''s obsession with death and his seeming inability to enjoy himself (''Life is divided between the horrible and the miserable''), spelt trouble for their affair.Annie Hall is a bittersweet comedic masterpiece, rich in irony, invention, romantic insights and classic Woody Allen one-liners. It won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture of 1977.
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Faber & Faber Diner FF Classics
Book SynopsisBaltimore 1959, and a gang of male friends in their early twenties reconvene for the wedding of their pal Eddie. Boogie is the hustler of the group, a trainee hairdresser mired in gambling debts. Shreevie is the elder statesman, already married (albeit tetchily) to Beth. Fenwick is the reckless trust-fund prankster; Modell the straight-faced jester; Billy the thoughtful intellectual.The sole obstacle barring Eddie''s marriage is that he has decreed that his fiancée Elyse must first pass a taxing quiz on pro-football trivia; and there''s the rub. On the threshold of adulthood, the guys remain happiest hanging out together in the neighbourhood diner, feasting on sodas and French fries in gravy, shooting the breeze about pop records, first dates and schoolboy pranks. Maturity, responsibility and real red-blooded women are the challenges they truly fear.Like the other two entries in Barry Levinson''s ''Baltimore trilogy'' (Tin Men and Avalon), Diner
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Faber & Faber The ExorcistScreenplay
Book SynopsisGeorgetown, Washington D.C., 1973. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience ''difficulties'' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan''s plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan''s distorted fetures and speech. On Karras''s recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . .William Peter Blatty scripted this version of his own best-selling novel for director William Friedkin, and was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay of 1973. This publication also includes the texts of the film''s legendary ''lost scenes'' and excise
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Faber & Faber Shallow Grave Screenplay FF Classics
Book SynopsisSet in the appropriately Gothic surroundings of contemporary Edinburgh, Shallow Grave presents a trio of affluent characters whose feckless lives are disrupted when they discover the corpse of their recently arrived flatmate, plus a suitcase bulging with money beneath his bed. The stage is thus set for a morality play about friendship and filthy lucre. The story balances on a knife-edge between ebullience and violence as the forces of destruction gather to claim their greedy victims.Shallow Grave won the Alexander Korda award for Best British Film of 1994, and established the partnership of writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald, director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor - a partnership to be renewed triumphantly the following year on Trainspotting.
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Faber & Faber Star Wars Screenplay FF Classics
Book SynopsisThe phenomenal success of George Lucas''s first Star Wars trilogy quite simply revolutionized the cinema; but what sets Lucas''s films apart from their legion of imitators is the quality of their screenplays. Lucas originally intended this trilogy to be a single film, but the epic scope of the story (combining hi-tech, sci-fi cinephilia with elements of Arthurian myth and mysticism) demanded that it be split into three.The first panel of the triptych is A New Hope. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, young Luke Skywalker leads a dull, isolated existence on his uncle''s homestead. One day, two androids, C3PO and R2D2, show up bearing a message from Princess Leia, the leader of the rebel forces engaged in a struggle against the vicious tryranny of the Empire - as personified by the rasping presence of Darth Vader. The message leads Luke to realize his heritage as a Jedi Knight. He sets out on a wild adventure across the galaxy and, together with Leia and
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Faber & Faber The Return of the Jedi Screenplay FF Classics
Book SynopsisThe most popular series of movies in the history of cinema, the Star Wars trilogy altered forever our notion of what the movies could do.Return of the Jedi is the trilogy''s concluding section. With its myriad peculiar creatures, it seems, at first, to be a lighter film than the others. However, as its subtle narrative unfolds, it becomes apparent that the centre of the trilogy is not Luke Skywalker but Darth Vader, and it is his redemption that forms the culmination of this epic story. The power of this conclusion excites curiosity about how someone who began so idealistically could have turned to the dark side of the Force - the story of which will be revealed in the next three instalments to the Star Wars saga . . .
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays 1 The Servant Pumpkin Eater
Book SynopsisThere is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate skill and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other authors, make the three volumes of his screenplays (of which this is the first) a collective masterclass in screenwriting.Included in this collection are the screenplays for The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Last Tycoon and Langrishe, Go Down.
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays 2 The Gobetween Proust
Book SynopsisThere is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate craftmanship and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other writers, makes the three volumes of his collected screenplays a masterclass in screenwriting.This second volume includes The Go-Between, another of his unforgettable collaborations with Joseph Losey, his adaptation of Russell Hoban''s novel Turtle Diary, his remarkable Proust Screenplay, as well as Victory and Reunion. The volume contains a new introduction by the author.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Collected Screenplays Blood SimpleRaising ArizonaMillers CrossingBarton Fink
Book SynopsisThis title contains a collection of the screenplays written by Joel and Ethan Coen. The plays include, "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink".
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays My Beautiful Laundrette
Book SynopsisHanif Kureishi''s cinematic storytelling embraces a wide spectrum of characters from all classes and nationalities, depicting them with compassion, humour and relish, though never fighting shy of controversy. This volume comprises four of Kureishi''s screenplays.My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)1980s London, and Sammy and Rosie share an ''open'' marriage, strings of lovers, and a bohemian existence amidst inner-city turmoil. Sammy''s
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays Faber Screenplays
Book SynopsisFrom his early days as a playwright, David Hare has moved deliberately between stage, film and television, over the years building up a repertoire of work, most of which seeks to capture the changing feelings of contemporary life. Now, for the first time, some of Hare''s best, and most characteristic, screenplays are collected together in a single volume, confirming his status as one of Britain''s most passionate and versatile writers of fiction.This volume also contains an illuminating introduction by the author.
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Faber & Faber The Hours
Book SynopsisThe Hours is David Hare''s screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is contemplating suicide. And in present-day New York, a hostess, Clarissa Vaughan, is planning a party for her friends. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel Mrs Dalloway - inextricably link the lives of three very different women.
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Faber & Faber Apocalypse Now Redux
Book SynopsisIn May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a 'work in progress' cut of his film, Apocalypse Now, at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d'Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001 Coppola introduced a new version - wholly re-edited from the original raw footage - that included forty-nine minutes of never-before-seen footage: Apocalypse Now Redux.Apocalypse Now relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate 'with extreme prejudice' a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.
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Faber & Faber Me Im Afraid of Virginia Woolf A Day Out Sunset
Book SynopsisAlan Bennett is the acknowledged master of the television play. This vintage collection of his work from the 1970s illustrates his skill and mastery of the medium from the beginning. Perceptive, poignant, truthful and very funny, the work here gives as much enjoyment in the reading as it did in the viewing, and provides a welcome addition to the Bennett canon.The television plays included are A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Me, I''m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Green Forms, The Old Crowd and Afternoon Off. This volume contains a new general introduction by Alan Bennett, as well as the original preface by Lindsay Anderson to The Old Crowd.A companion volume of Alan Bennett''s work from the late 1970s and early 1980s is published as Rolling Home.
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Faber & Faber The Mother
Book Synopsis''Kureishi''s screenplay is one of his most focused and engaging since My Beautiful Laundrette.'' Allan Hunter, Screen InternationalAt sixty-five years of age, May fears that life has passed her by - that she has become just another invisible old lady whose days are more or less numbered. When she and her husband travel down from the north to visit their grown-up children in west London, she finds them characteristically inattentive. But then her husband''s unexpected death pulls the ground from under her, and she subsequently embarks on a passionate affair with Darren, a man half her age, who is renovating her son''s house and sleeping with her daughter, Paula. In the midst of this tumultuous situation, May begins to understand that it can take a lifetime to feel truly alive.
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Faber & Faber Notes on a Scandal
Book SynopsisThis unsettling black comedy about private passion and public shame is based on Zoe Heller''s acclaimed novel, adapted for the screen by celebrated dramatist Patrick Marber (Closer). When art teacher Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) arrives at a London comprehensive she catches the keen eye of her older colleague Barbara Covett (Judi Dench). Barbara is not the only one drawn to Sheba, who then begins an illicit affair. Barbara is the keeper of Sheba''s secret, but can she be trusted?
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Faber & Faber Breaking and Entering
Book SynopsisIn this intimate relationship drama, set in multi-cultural London, Anthony Minghella unites an award-winning cast, many of whom have shone in his previous films.
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Faber & Faber Atonement
Book SynopsisATONEMENTTHE SHOOTING SCRIPTScreenplay by Christopher HamptonBased on the novel by Ian McEwanIntroduction by Christopher HamptonA Newmarket Shooting Script Series Book 30 Colour photos in a colour insertThe official screenplay book tie-in to the adaptation by screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for Dangerous Liaisons) of Ian McEwan''s best-selling 2002 novel, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland) opposite Academy Award-nominated Keira Knightley, directed by Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice), coming from Focus Features in December. Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony
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Faber & Faber In Bruges
Book SynopsisAfter a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters.While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next, the pair attempt to deal both with their feelings over the botched killing and their differing attitudes towards this curious, otherworldly place they''ve been dumped in (''Bruges is a shithole.'' ''Bruges is not a shithole''), until the call from Harry finally comes through, and all three men are enmeshed in a spiral of bloody violence that few will get out of alive.This jet-black comedy marks the feature-film debut of writer/director Martin McDonagh, award-winning author of such plays as The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman, and the film Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for the Best Live-Action Short Film.The film stars Colin Farrel
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Faber & Faber Inside Llewyn Davis Screenplays
Book SynopsisInside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a disaffected girlfriend, his father''s dementia, the suicide of his musical partner, and the loss of his friend''s cat . . .Suffused with the music of the time, the film is an emotional journey inside the soul of Llewyn Davis.
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Faber & Faber Directing Herbert White
Book SynopsisIn Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart''s poem, Herbert White. Though the main character, Herbert White, is a necrophiliac and a killer, the poem - and the film - are an expression of life''s isolation and loneliness. A poem became a film.In the rest of book, Franco uses poems to express what he feels about film: about acting; about the actors he admires - James Dean, Marlon Brando, Sean Penn; about the cult of celebrity and his struggles with it; about his teenage years in Palo Alto, and about mortality prompted by the death of his father.These preoccupations are handled with a simplicity and directness that recalls the work of Frank O''Hara.
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Faber & Faber The Double
Book SynopsisInspired by Dostoyevsky''s short story, The Double tells the story of Simon, a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon''s exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon''s horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.
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Faber & Faber Hail Caesar
Book SynopsisHail, Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair, no sin he cannot make right. His powers are tested, though, when production on the studio's most expensive picture ever---biblical epic Hail, Caesar!---is halted by the kidnapping of its star. The kidnappers are a mysterious gaggle seeking not just ransom but the destruction of everything Eddie Mannix lives for, and everything he lives by. . .
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Faber & Faber Dunkirk
Book SynopsisChristopher Nolan's previous films have reflected the uncertainties of the twentieth-first century. With Dunkirk, Nolan has gone back into the past and brought to life one of the momentous events of the twentieth-century the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, telling the tale by land, sea, and sky.Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea, they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.The film features a prestigious cast, including Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, and newcomer Fionn Whitehead, with Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy.The screenplay is accompanied by a conversation about the film between Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan,as well as selected storyboards.
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Faber & Faber Isle of Dogs
Book SynopsisWes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl''s Fantastic Mr Fox.He now displays his unique wit and playful visual sense in an action-filled saga of Samurai dogs.
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Faber & Faber Victoria Abdul The Screenplay
Book SynopsisVictoria & Abdul tells the extraordinary true story of Queen Victoria's relationship with Abdul Karim, her Muslim manservant, who travelled from India to present a ceremonial medal as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee but within months became her personal teacher of Urdu and dedicated spiritual advisor. The unprecedented and unlikely friendship caused meltdown within the royal household, the ensuing battle royale pitting the Queen against the court and her entire family. Through the prism of a highly unusual love story, Lee Hall's Victoria & Abdul, based on the book by Shrabani Basu, explores race, religion, power and the farce of empire through the prism of a highly unusual love story.
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Faber & Faber Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Book SynopsisAfter months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town''s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing''s law enforcement threatens to engulf the town.Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comedic drama from Martin McDonagh.The film won Best Motion Picture Drama and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes 2018, and the Best Film and Best Original Screenplay awards at the 2018 BAFTAs.
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Faber & Faber To Provide All People A Poem in the Voice of the
Book SynopsisShould be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To Provide All People is the intimate story of the NHS in British society today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers. Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth.Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays
Book SynopsisPaul Auster's novels have earned him the reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' He has also brought this sense of invention to the art of screenwriting, producing Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost.Smoke tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths. Blue in the Face is a largely improvised comedy directly inspired by Smoke. In Lulu on the Bridge, jazz musician Izzy Maurer is accidently hit with a bullet during a performance in a New York club, propelling him on a strange and frightening journey. The Inner Life of Martin Frost follows the unsettling experiences that befall a writer who borrows a friend's country house.The volume also contains production notes, as well as interviews with Paul Auster about his work in film.
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Faber & Faber The French Dispatch
Book SynopsisTHE FRENCH DISPATCH brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.
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Faber & Faber The Banshees of Inisherin
Book SynopsisThe screenplay of the latest macabre and haunting comedy from the writer of In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.Winner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022.What is he, twelve? Why doesn''t he want to be friends with you no more?1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it''s the rift between old drinking pals Pádraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action.''Simply perfect . . . a bleakly funny yet often unutterably poignant drama that consistently recalls the best of Beckett. . . . It is proper art.'' The Times''Quietly magnificent.'' Variety
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Faber & Faber Four Films
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Faber & Faber Rules of Engagement
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Faber & Faber Isle of Dogs
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Faber & Faber The French Dispatch
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Faber & Faber The Phoenician Scheme
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Faber & Faber Honey Dont DriveAway Dykes
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Samuel French Ltd Rising Damp
Book SynopsisWhen Student Alan moves into an attic flat, he does not expect to find it already inhabited by someone else. They mysterious Philip claims to be the son of an African chief with ten wives waiting for him back home, but his presence is the least of Alan''s worries.-1 woman, 3 men
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Samuel French Inc Play it Again Sam
Book SynopsisComedy Characters: 3 male, 8 female Interior Set Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart's technique...Bookish and insecure with women, Allan's hero, Bogey comes to the rescue, with a fantastic bevy of beauties played out in hilarious fantasy sequences. Fixed up by friends with gorgeous women, he's so awkward that even Bogey's patience is tried. Allan mostly resembles a disheveled, friendly dog and this is what ultimately charms his best friend's wife, Linda into bed. It's a tough life, making it in the world of beautiful people but if you can't be a hero it helps to have one...Hilarious...a cheerful romp. Not only are Mr. Allen's jokes and their follow ups, asides and twists audaciously brilliant, but he has a great sense of character.-The New York Times A funny, likeable comedy that has a surprising amount of wistful appeal.-New York Post
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Samuel French Inc Our Town
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Random House USA Inc The Church of Baseball
Book SynopsisLA TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking.This book tells you how to make a movie—the whole nine innings of it—out of nothing but sheer will.” —Tony Gilroy, writer/director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne LegacyThe only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball.—Annie in Bull DurhamBull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner’s leading-man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and The Church of Baseball attempts to capture why.From organizing a baseball camp for the actors and rewriting key scenes while on set, to dealing with a short production schedule and overcoming the challenge of filming the sport, Shelton brings to life the making of this beloved American movie. Shelton explains the rarely revealed ins and outs of moviemaking, from a film’s inception and financing, screenwriting, casting, the nuts and bolts of directing, the postproduction process, and even through its release. But this is also a book about baseball and its singular romance in the world of sports. Shelton spent six years in the minor leagues before making this film, and his experiences resonate throughout this book.Full of wry humor and insight, The Church of Baseball tells the remarkable story behind an iconic film.
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University of Queensland Press Is That You Ruthie The Play
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Manchester University Press Francois Truffaut French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisAfter making an initial impact with his first film "Les 400 Coups", the French film director Francois Truffaut went on to make 23 films in 26 years. This appraisal of his work provides a socio-political contextualization, and gives an overview of his films and film-making methods.Table of ContentsPrefaceLes Mistons: an introduction1. The Context: Cinema Saved my Life2. A Career in Cinema3. The Genre Films4. Magic Mothers: The Sexual Politics of Truffaut’s Films5. Where is the Father? Masculinity and Authorship6. The Definitif and the Provisoire (The Absolute v. the Provisional)FilmographyBibliography
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Manchester University Press Contemporary French Cinema
Book SynopsisThis introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage film; thrillers; war movies; Cinema-du-Look; representations of sexuality; and women film-makers.Table of Contents1. Introduction: histoire/s du cinema.2. Documentary, History, Nationality since 1968.3. Representations of Sexuality.4. Women’s Cinema.5. The polar: France and Hollywood.6. Cinema du look: la nouvelle nouvelle vague.7. Conclusion: France and Hollywood.Glossary, Filmography and Bibliography.
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Manchester University Press Agnes Varda French Film Directors French Film
Book SynopsisAgnes Varda, one of the major French film-makers of the last 40 years, is here celebrated by Alison Smith, by examining both the early films and the later successes, such as "Sans toit ni loi" (1985), "Jane B. par Agnes V." (1987) and "Jacquot de Nantes" (1991).Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Cinécriture and the power of images2. People and places3. Women's images and self-images4. Time and memory5. Performance, audience and actorsConclusionFilmographyBibliography
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Manchester University Press Luc Besson French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisLuc Besson is considered one of the hottest international properties to emerge from the new wave of French film directors in the 1980s. This is a study of Besson's film-making career to date, placing the films within their socio-historical and political context.Table of Contents1. Luc Besson the emerging filmmaker2. Besson in context3. Violence as performance4. Constructing subjectivity in the absence of the father and the motherAfterword
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Manchester University Press Coline Serreau French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisColine Serreau’s third film, Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby) was the most successful French film of the 1980s. She was already known in France for her major contribution to feminist documentaries with the acclaimed Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent?, and is now a key figure in French cinema and drama.Table of ContentsColine Serreau, May 1968 and the 1970s in France; rebel with causes - Coline Serreau and politics 1972-1996; from the age of light to the limelights - Coline Serreau and intertextuality; women's laughter from utopia to science fiction - comedies and humour; family matters and maters - questioning gender roles.
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Manchester University Press Diane Kurys French Film Directors Series
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the cinema of Diane Kurys describes her unsentimental reconstructions of the lives of girls and women in post-war France which established her as a real presence in contemporary French film-making. It traces her career from actress to author-director-producer of her own films.Table of ContentsList of platesSeries forewordIntroduction1. Diabolo menthe2. Cocktail Molotov3. Coup de foudre4. Un Homme amoureux5. La Baule les pins6. Après l'amour7. A la folieConclusion: Diane Kurys' authorial signatureFilmographySelected bibliographyIndex
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