Film Studies, Film History, and Film Biographies I Have Read

Submitted by allegheny on Sat, 02/26/2005 - 07:37
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  1. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Peter Biskind)
  2. Filmmaker's Handbook
  3. Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist (Walter Bernstein)
  4. Practical Cinematography (Paul Wheeler)
  5. Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and The Legend (Francis Ford Coppola & James V. Hart)
  6. Star Wars, Episode 4: THe New Hope Script (George Lucas)
  7. Blockbuster Video Guide to the Movies-1995
  8. The COmplete Films of John Wayne (Mark Ricci, Boris Zmijewsky, Steve Zmijewsky)
  9. Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever-1999
  10. The Book of Video Lists (Tom Wiener)
  11. Behind The Oscar: The Secret History of The Acadamy Awards (Anthony Holden)
  12. Box Office Hits: Hollywood's Most Successful Movies (Susan Sackett)
  13. The Films of Steven Spielberg (Douglas Brode)
  14. Marlon Brando (Alan Frank)
  15. The Complete Films of James Cagney (Homer C. Dickens)
  16. The Complete Films of Clark Gable (Gabe Essoe)
  17. The Complete Films of Cary Grant (Intro by Charles Champlin, Author: Donald Deschner)
  18. The Godfather Movies: A Pictorial History (Gerald Gardner and Harriet Modell Gardner)
  19. Sound for Film and Television (Tomlinson Holman)
Author Comments: 

1. Warren Beatty was a babe-magnet and Dennis Hopper was either high or strung-out or ranting on the set of Easy Rider.
2. The 180 DEGREE RULE: A camera rule in conjunction that set ups an imaginary 180 degree line that the camera/viewer should not cross. Ex. If you film two people in a dialogue scene, you shoot one person's dialogue from the right side or over the other person's left shoulder, and likewise shoot the other person from the left side or over their partner's right shoulder. You only break the line if you have a cutaway shot or if a third party enters the scene.
3. Zero Mostel's anger and bitteness during his blacklisting was almost violent. Ward Bond was a vicious, Hollywood watchdog for the HUAAC.
4. Rule of Thirds: an rule of camera framing that cuts the action on screen into thirds, like an imaginary tic-tac-toe board over the picture.
5. Count Dracula in the Original novel really was killed with a Bowie Knife.
6. I always wanted to read they part of Hans Solo.
7. Hamlet (Franco Zefferilli) ***, Hamlet (Olivier) ****. I don't buy it.
8. John Wayne: 148 films (?) Born Winterset,Iowa 1907. Best Actor nominee-1949 (Sands of Iowa Jima), Best Actor-1969 (True Grit). Died from lung cancer June 11, 1979, age 72.
9. Hamlet (Zefferilli) 3 1/2 Bones, Hamlet (Olivier) 4 bones--That's more like it. Hamlet (Branagh) 4 bones...say wha?
10. The Outlaw: Directed by Howard Hughes. Starring bosumy Jane Russell, was banned at first because of Jane's cleavage and a lusty roll-in-the-hay that she did with Billy-The-Kid.
11. George C. Scott once referred to the Oscars as a Bingo. John Ford holds the record for winning the most Best Directing Oscars (4).
12. The Towering Inferno was the Biggest Grosser of 1974 ($52 Million) Blazing Saddles was the second biggest grosser of 1974($17.8 Million)
13. Loved making model airplanes when he was a kid, Many times, has his hero wearing some sort of hat or head-gear: Indiana Jones, Jaws, Always, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, 1941, E.T.
14. Has a period in his career with a series of poor films called The Locust Years.
15. Cagney was the 1942 Best Actor Oscar Winner (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
16. Gable was the Best Actor Oscar Winner for Actor-1934 (It Happened One Night)
17. Grant was an acrobat and circus performer from Bristol, England, before he moved to Hollywood and began his film career, which helped him perform many stunts on his movies.
18. Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Ryan O'Neal, David Carradine, Martin Sheen, Dean Stockwell, and Tony LoBianco were choices to play Michael Corleone at one point.