Collected Screenplays

Author : Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571142668
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Screenplays written by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1999 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his death in 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky has become increasingly recognized as one of the great masters of world cinema. In his films, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker and The Sacrifice, Tarkovsky defined a new way of looking at the world. His non-realistic, highly-charged images are a continuing source of inspiration - not only for a new generation of film-makers, but also for poets, musicians and painters. This volume collects his great works for the first time in one volume, as well as three of his unproduced screenplays. This material provides a unique glimpse into the way Tarkovsky's vision evolved from the printed text to its final form on celluloid. The book also contains an extended essay by film critic and historian Ian Christie, who places Tarkovsky's work in the context of Soviet film-making practice.

Author : Paul Schrader
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Screenplays written by Paul Schrader and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Schrader is US cinema's hardcore intellectual. This title collects three of his finest screenplays, Taxi Driver, American Gigolo and Light Sleeper, that form a kind of triptych devoted to a single, soulful character.

Author : Preston Sturges
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520055640
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Screenplays written by Preston Sturges and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema."

Author : Timothy Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780440002185
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Gigolo written by Timothy Harris and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American gigolo Julian Kay speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an executive. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a husband of a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect.

Author : Christopher Nolan
Publisher : Opus Books
ISBN 13 : 1623160006
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Knight Trilogy written by Christopher Nolan and published by Opus Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). At nearly six hundred pages, The Dark Knight Trilogy , a behemoth of script and storyboards, captures on the page the dark mythic expanse of the cinematic Batman. These definitive, vibrant film blueprints published on the heels of the final film's closely guarded release are destined to be enshrined on every fan's bedside table, studied in universities, and emulated by filmmakers.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802136466
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proust Screenplay, The written by Harold Pinter and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written. With fidelity to Proust's text, the screenplay is an extraordinary re-creation by one of the leading playwrights of our time. It is, in its way, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary writers united across more than half a century and two different cultures by a special concern for time and memory.

Author : Ethan Coen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0571210961
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1 written by Ethan Coen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink--an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood--is a masterful culmination of these themes.

Author : Peter Markham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000173895
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay written by Peter Markham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director’s craft. Drawing on seventeen years of teaching filmmaking at a graduate level and on his prior career as a director and in production at the BBC, Markham shows how the filmmaker can apply rigorous analysis of the elements of dramatic narrative in a screenplay to their creative vision, whether of a short or feature, TV episode or season. Combining examination of such fundamental topics as story, premise, theme, genre, world and setting, tone, structure, and key images with the introduction of less familiar concepts such as cultural, social, and moral canvas, narrative point of view, and the journey of the audience, What’s The Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay applies the insights of each chapter to a case study—the screenplay of the short film Contrapelo, nominated for the Jury Award at Tribeca in 2014. This book is an essential resource for any aspiring director who wants to understand exactly how to approach a screenplay in order to get the very best from it, and an invaluable resource for any filmmaker who wants to understand the important creative interplay between the director and screenplay in bringing a story to life.

Author : Joel Coen
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312021689
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Simple written by Joel Coen and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1989-03-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director Joel Coen's and producer Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984, River Road Prods/Circle Releasing/Palace) is a contemporary noir thriller set in Texas. A taut, convoluted plot and imaginative direction made the independent release a word-of-mouth hit and established the Coen brothers' reputation for originality. Actors John Getz, Frances McDormand, and Dan Hedaya appear in the story in which a woman commits adultery, and her enraged husband hires a killer for revenge. Blackmail, violence, and mistaken assumptions lead to an edgy, exhilarating climax.

Author : Robert Riskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520205253
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Screenplays written by Robert Riskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected six of the best Riskin scripts: Platinum Blonde (1931), American Madness (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), and Meet John Doe (1941). All of them were directed by Capra, and although Capra's work has been amply chronicled and celebrated, Riskin's share in the collaboration has been overlooked since his death. McGilligan provides the "backstory" for the forgotten half of the team, indispensable counterpoint to the director's self-mythologizing autobiography--and incidentally the missing link in any study of Capra's career. Riskin's own career, although interrupted by patriotic duty and cut short by personal tragedy, produced as consistent, entertaining, thoughtful, and enduring a body of work as any Hollywood writer's. Those who know and love these vintage films will treasure these scripts. McGilligan's introduction offers new information and insights for fans, scholars, and general readers.