The Silver Screen

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Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard 4.25 avg rating — 358 ratings
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The Great Movies
The Great Movies 4.26 avg rating — 2,572 ratings
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies 3.61 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema
The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema 4.16 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Memo from David O. Selznick
Memo from David O. Selznick 4.13 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary
Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary 4.14 avg rating — 182,141 ratings
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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography 3.63 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film 3.81 avg rating — 3,549 ratings
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Leading Ladies: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era
Leading Ladies: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Era 4.28 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film
Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film 4.14 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards
Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards 4.32 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film 4.46 avg rating — 13,253 ratings
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Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity 3.43 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Me: Stories of My Life
Me: Stories of My Life 3.81 avg rating — 15,988 ratings
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James Cameron's Titanic
James Cameron's Titanic 4.37 avg rating — 4,917 ratings
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Leading Men: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actors of the Studio Era
Leading Men: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actors of the Studio Era 4.24 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Jaws Log
The Jaws Log 4.22 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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Black Narcissus: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide
Black Narcissus: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait 4.08 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive 4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Casablanca: Script and Legend
Casablanca: Script and Legend 4.41 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema
Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema 3.86 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making 4.24 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
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501 Movie Directors
501 Movie Directors 3.97 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Swimming with Sharks
Swimming with Sharks 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa
Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Life Itself
Life Itself 3.92 avg rating — 6,630 ratings
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100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember: But Probably Don't
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember: But Probably Don't really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 4.18 avg rating — 73,023 ratings
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Hollywood
Hollywood 3.81 avg rating — 27,013 ratings
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood 4.14 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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Lynch on Lynch
Lynch on Lynch 4.27 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels 4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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I, Toto: The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto
I, Toto: The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto 4.11 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Lost in the Shadows: The Story of the Lost Boys
Lost in the Shadows: The Story of the Lost Boys 4.49 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut 4.48 avg rating — 9,065 ratings
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Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir
Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir 4.21 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Last Year at Marienbad
Last Year at Marienbad 4.15 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating — 4,938 ratings
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Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night/The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries/The Magician
Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night/The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries/The Magician 4.44 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Garbo
Garbo 4.02 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow 4.10 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Mommie Dearest
Mommie Dearest 3.67 avg rating — 11,365 ratings
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The Million Dollar Mermaid
The Million Dollar Mermaid 3.87 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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The Films of Akira Kurosawa
The Films of Akira Kurosawa 4.31 avg rating — 543 ratings
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When the Lights Go Down: Film Writings, 1975-1980
When the Lights Go Down: Film Writings, 1975-1980 4.30 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game 4.10 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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Goddess
Goddess 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Ghost in the Music (Norton Paperback Fiction)
A Ghost in the Music (Norton Paperback Fiction) 3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Alt.Film Journal! How I Made A Low-Budget Indie Film for $32,000
Alt.Film Journal! How I Made A Low-Budget Indie Film for $32,000 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Making The Elephant Man: A Producer's Memoir
Making The Elephant Man: A Producer's Memoir 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn 3.92 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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You Can't Fall Off the Floor: And Other Lessons from a Life in Hollywood
You Can't Fall Off the Floor: And Other Lessons from a Life in Hollywood 3.67 avg rating — 124 ratings
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El Diablo es una mujer
El Diablo es una mujer 3.72 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History
The Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History 3.85 avg rating — 113 ratings
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There Are No Small Parts: 100 Outstanding Film Performances with Screen Time of 10 Minutes or Less
There Are No Small Parts: 100 Outstanding Film Performances with Screen Time of 10 Minutes or Less 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Shine: A Powerful 4-Step Plan for Becoming a Star in Anything You Do
Shine: A Powerful 4-Step Plan for Becoming a Star in Anything You Do 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Karoo
Karoo 3.85 avg rating — 2,052 ratings
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Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Western Movies
Encyclopedia of Western Movies 4.53 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A History of Narrative Film
A History of Narrative Film 4.12 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Acting for the Camera
Acting for the Camera
by: Tony Barr
4.04 avg rating — 431 ratings
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A Midwinter's Tale: The Shooting Script
A Midwinter's Tale: The Shooting Script 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings
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All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made! 3.87 avg rating — 704 ratings
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What Makes Sammy Run?
What Makes Sammy Run? 4.09 avg rating — 3,368 ratings
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TITANIC MEMORIES: The Making of A Night to Remember
TITANIC MEMORIES: The Making of A Night to Remember 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002
Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life
Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life 3.57 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Player
The Player 3.54 avg rating — 593 ratings
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JAWS: Memories from Martha's Vineyard
JAWS: Memories from Martha's Vineyard 4.64 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre
The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
by: M.G. Lord
3.55 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History
Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History 3.85 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film
The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6)
Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6) 4.22 avg rating — 75,281 ratings
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The Art of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow
The Art of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow 4.19 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The War Film
The War Film 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sanford Meisner on Acting
Sanford Meisner on Acting 4.20 avg rating — 3,111 ratings
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501 Movie Stars
501 Movie Stars 3.67 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Hollywood Jewels: Movies, Jewelry, Stars
Hollywood Jewels: Movies, Jewelry, Stars 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist 4.20 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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Uggie, the Artist: My Story
Uggie, the Artist: My Story 3.93 avg rating — 186 ratings
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We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film
We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film 3.68 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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The Actress (Rita Farmer Mysteries, #1)
The Actress (Rita Farmer Mysteries, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 507 ratings
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I Just Kept Hoping
I Just Kept Hoping 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film 3.91 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Stanwyck
Stanwyck 3.61 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (Women’s Media History Now!)
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (Women’s Media History Now!) 2.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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I'll Be in My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors
I'll Be in My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors 4.11 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
by: Rob Lowe
3.87 avg rating — 83,930 ratings
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The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet
The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet 4.07 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 3.87 avg rating — 14,311 ratings
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The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love
The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love 3.56 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story
Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story 4.16 avg rating — 2,154 ratings
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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir 4.27 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind 3.82 avg rating — 4,686 ratings
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Hollywood and the American Historical Film
Hollywood and the American Historical Film 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley 4.17 avg rating — 9,895 ratings
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