IanTwentyWhat are your favourite books about movies?
Zorro@IanTwenty the two books about the industry by William Goldman (Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid) are brilliant!
Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell?
UKFilmNerdThe Making of Moon revealed just how lucky that film was in getting made and the tricks they used along the way to save money. Very interesting.
If you’re a Tremors fan, I highly recommended Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors by Jonathan Melville. He’s also written A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander but I haven’t started that one yet.
There’s a series of books called The Definitive Visual History and I have ones about Back to the Future, Die Hard and Ghostbusters. Recommended, they also have paper reproductions in their pages. So for example, Die hard has the photos of John Mclanes family that you only glimpse in the background.
Anything by the late J. W. Rinzler it’s recommended. Huge coffee table style books that cover the subject films in wonderful detail and contain photos never seen before.
I have the making of Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Alien and Aliens.
Finally, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner. Another detailed book that covers the original film, all the different editions up to the Final Cut and more. Fascinating read.
grrgyleGreat recommendations, thanks!
Sentient LoomSeagalogy. It’s about the Steven Seagal movies, documenting the recurring themes, ad-libbed speeches, overkill violence. It’s really so much fun. Makes his movies even more fun to watch.
I really liked As You Wish, by Cary Elwes (Princess bride) and If China could kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (Evil dead, burn notice) but I’m not sure if those qualify.
If Chins Could Kill definitely qualifies
‘Australia at the Movies’ by David Stratton, Australia’s most famous film critic who recently passed away.
Ayoade on Top
Blurb:
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin-crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top, starring Gwyneth Paltrow
His other one The Grip of Film is good too, recommend the audio versions of both
If you like John Waters it is worth reading Shock Value