[nice clean copy, virtually as new except for a short closed tear at the bottom of the front cover]. This issue contains the following screenplays, accompanied by interviews with their respective writers: GET SHORTY (Scott Frank); TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett); A LITTLE PRINCESS (Richard LaGravenese & Elizabeth Chandler); GEORGIA (Barbara Turner). The Keynote Essay is "That Big Bad Wolf Called Criticism" by Darnell Martin. View More...
[nice clean copy, virtually as new, light handling wear only]. Complete screenplays in this issue are: ROSEWOOD (Gregory Poirier), with an interview with Poirier; BREAKING AWAY (Steve Tesich), along with a brief biography of Tesich and an interview with the film's director, Peter Yates; SCREAM (Kevin Williamson), plus interviews with Williamson and director Wes Craven; and NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Ernest Lehman), with an interview with Lehman. This issue also includes the entire list of 34 films for which the Writers Guild of America, west, had issued "corrected credits" (to right the wro... View More...
[very nice copy, tiny surface-scraping at lower left-hand corner of front cover, so inconspicuous you wouldn't have noticed it if I'da kept my big mouth shut]. Complete screenplays in this issue are: THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan); MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Waldo Salt); TELLINGS LIES IN AMERICA (Joe Eszterhas); ONE CRASH, THREE ACCIDENTS (the 1997 Student Screenplay Competition winner, by Jason Greiff). Following the usual format, each script is followed by interview(s) with either the writer or other creative personnel. (In the case of MIDNIGHT COWBOY, screenwriter Salt having died in 1987, there... View More...
[nice clean copy, no significant wear apart from a diagonal crease at the upper right corner of the front cover]. A "theme" issue of sorts, with two of the three complete screenplays -- ELECTION (by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor) and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (by Stewart Stern) -- providing a cross-generational justification for the "Dangerous Teens" heading at the top of the front cover; additionally, the Keynote Essay, by Molly Haskell, is called "Teen Power." The third script, while not teen-themed, is "dangerous" in a different way: THE BIRDS by Evan Hunter. ... View More...
[nice clean copy, virtually as new with just a tiny bit of wear along spine, faint diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover]. Complete screenplays in this issue: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich, including an essay by the former and an interview with the latter); LIVING OUT LOUD (by Richard LaGravenese, also interviewed); and GODS AND MONSTERS (by Bill Condon, also with interview). There are also articles on screenwriting in "pre-Code Hollywood" (by Lee Server), and on the work of production designer Tony Walton. The Keynote Essay is "Movie P... View More...
[edgewear to covers, some weakness at front hinge, rubbing/scuffing to covers, some creasing in rear cover]. (Classic Film Scripts) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Translation of the director's original shooting script for the film which secured a measure of immortality for the luminous Louise Brooks -- even though, unbeknownst to her (or anyone else), her film career would come to a grinding halt only a few years later. The film was controversial (and much-censored) upon its original release, and so this script is probably the closest approximation of Pabst's full, unexpurgated version. Inc... View More...
[moderate external rubbing and a bit of edgewear; binding (stapled wraps) is firm]. (B&W photographs) The full scenario, in French, for Jean Renoir's 1937 anti-war classic. Includes: full credits, numerous scene stills, a selection of contemporary press commentaries on the film, and an introductory article by Erich von Stroheim, "Ma Première Rencontre avec Jean Renoir" ("My First Meeting with Jean Renoir"). Also in this issue are briefer treatments of two additional films: Dominique Delouche's short film about Edith Stein (including an interview with Delouche) and Hiroshi Te... View More...
[nice clean copy, virtually as new with just some minor external handling wear]. (Universal Filmscripts Series: Classic Horror Films, Volume 13) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Facsimile reproduction of the original shooting script and pressbook for the 1931 Universal horror classic, accompanied by extensive background information about the conception and production of the film (by Philip J. Riley and George Turner). Also includes reproductions of pages from the manuscript of the Bram Stoker novel and of the first treatment for the film, by novelist Louis Bromfield (unfortunate... View More...
[a lovely, as-new copy]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The screenplay for the acclaimed 1985 film, based on the novel by Manuel Puig, about "two men -- one a political prisoner, the other a homosexual window dresser -- [who] share a Latin American jail cell" and despite seemingly having nothing in common, find a way "to help each other survive the abuse and terror of prison." The book also includes an essay on independent filmmaking by David Weisman, producer of the movie, which received four Academy Award nominations. (William Hurt won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.) View More...
[bottom corners very slightly bumped, otherwise as new; minimal rubbing to jacket]. (Color photographs) Includes forewords by director Sonnenfeld ("The Aliens Are Us") and producers Parkes & MacDonald ("Filming an Urban Legend"), plus a 60-page section on the making of the film, and "The Official Agent's Manual for Men in Black." View More...
[rubbing/scuffing to covers, modest edgewear]. (Classic Film Scripts) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) This volume, containing the screenplays for two classic von Sternberg/Marlene Dietrich vehicles, betrays this series' auteurist prejudices: the name of the actual screenwriter of both films, Jules Furthman, is omitted from the title page, which proclaims the pair to be "two films by Josef von Sternberg." This is the sort of thing that causes Writers Guild members to grind their teeth in their sleep. View More...
[minor bumping in vicinity of spine ends, otherwise a tight clean copy with minimal wear; jacket moderately edgeworn, small tear and a bit of paper loss at top of spine, soiling to rear panel]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series) Series (B&W photographs) Typically excellent entry in this screenplay series, with an erudite introduction by historian Bernard F. Dick, discussing the "factual, anecdotal and mythical" history of this classic film. In addition to the screenplay itself (annotated by the editor), the volume includes a healthy selection of frame blow-ups from the film. ... View More...
[no discernible wear to book; jacket shows only light surface- and edge-wear]. (The MGM Library of Film Scripts) Series (B&W photographs) In their second M-G-M outing, Groucho, Harpo and Chico (now permanently Zeppo-less) take on the medical profession, with Groucho as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a horse doctor posing as the medical director of a sanitarium. Both the original script and the dialogue and action from the film as released are presented, it sez here, "because the final film differs so much from the script." (As with all the books in this series, the hardcover printings are m... View More...
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