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Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
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Haywire: A Memoir
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3.90 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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Film as a Subversive Art
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Wishful Drinking
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3.82 avg rating — 92,869 ratings
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Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
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The Moon's a Balloon
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4.10 avg rating — 8,373 ratings
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A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond
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4.05 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir
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4.19 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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David O. Selznick's Hollywood
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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
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4.27 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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4.40 avg rating — 101,986 ratings
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Cassavetes on Cassavetes
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4.46 avg rating — 698 ratings
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The Star Machine
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4.06 avg rating — 896 ratings
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The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM- and the Miracle of Production No. 1060
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4.11 avg rating — 702 ratings
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
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4.35 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age: At the American Film Institute
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4.38 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation
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4.25 avg rating — 87 ratings
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By Myself
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Valley of the Dolls
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3.86 avg rating — 76,761 ratings
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Spike Lee's Gotta Have It - Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking
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Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
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3.90 avg rating — 2,567 ratings
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My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
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3.88 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
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Montgomery Clift: A Biography
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4.02 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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Hollywood: The Oral History
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4.03 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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Hawks on Hawks
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4.21 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Scorsese on Scorsese
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4.10 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
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4.19 avg rating — 5,458 ratings
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Mommie Dearest
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3.67 avg rating — 11,498 ratings
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A Life in Movies
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4.33 avg rating — 107 ratings
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George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992
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4.55 avg rating — 112 ratings
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5001 Nights at the Movies
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4.26 avg rating — 400 ratings
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85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards
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4.36 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema
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3.70 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste
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4.39 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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4.27 avg rating — 17,398 ratings
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Film Form & The Film Sense
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4.04 avg rating — 467 ratings
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The Great Movies
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4.26 avg rating — 2,608 ratings
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
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Something Like an Autobiography
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My Autobiography
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4.03 avg rating — 8,245 ratings
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My Last Sigh
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4.31 avg rating — 3,811 ratings
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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
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4.15 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Studio
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3.83 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Godard on Godard: Critical Writings
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4.06 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Notes: On the Making of "Apocalypse Now"
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4.04 avg rating — 397 ratings
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
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3.92 avg rating — 890 ratings
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The Devil Finds Work: Essays
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4.25 avg rating — 2,712 ratings
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
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3.87 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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The Citizen Kane book
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3.99 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Cinema Speculation
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4.04 avg rating — 14,329 ratings
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This Is Orson Welles
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4.26 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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Sculpting in Time
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4.50 avg rating — 6,451 ratings
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
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4.12 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 25,041 ratings
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Naming Names
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3.82 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Life Itself
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3.92 avg rating — 6,701 ratings
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Lulu in Hollywood
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Notes on the Cinematographer
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4.19 avg rating — 3,546 ratings
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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
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4.24 avg rating — 718 ratings
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
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The Name Above The Title
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4.21 avg rating — 613 ratings
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HIT AND RUN HOW JON PETERS AND PETER GUBER TOOK SONY FOR A RIDE IN HOLLYWOOD
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3.80 avg rating — 602 ratings
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
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4.10 avg rating — 3,767 ratings
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
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3.81 avg rating — 3,577 ratings
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Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors
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4.34 avg rating — 518 ratings
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What is Cinema? Volume I
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4.13 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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Postcards from the Edge
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3.62 avg rating — 18,632 ratings
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Play It As It Lays
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3.90 avg rating — 89,381 ratings
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Agee on Film, Vol. 1: Essays and Reviews
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The Player
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Picture: A Story About Hollywood
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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
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Memo from David O. Selznick : The Creation of Gone with the Wind and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer's Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks by David O. Selznick (2000-03-07)
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4.13 avg rating — 242 ratings
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
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4.21 avg rating — 8,361 ratings
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The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
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4.06 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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The Love of the Last Tycoon
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3.63 avg rating — 13,805 ratings
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Conversations with Wilder
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4.29 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
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4.19 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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Goldwyn: A Biography
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3.97 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate
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4.01 avg rating — 998 ratings
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide
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4.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 6,718 ratings
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The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
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4.27 avg rating — 683 ratings
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The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
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4.03 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Mike Nichols: A Life
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4.48 avg rating — 3,427 ratings
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
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3.82 avg rating — 633 ratings
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The Day of the Locust
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The Parade's Gone By...
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What Makes Sammy Run?
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
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4.26 avg rating — 4,814 ratings
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Making Movies
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4.29 avg rating — 9,850 ratings
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Elia Kazan: A Life
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4.12 avg rating — 425 ratings
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
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3.40 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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4.01 avg rating — 777 ratings
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I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965
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4.14 avg rating — 726 ratings
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
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3.97 avg rating — 5,281 ratings
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
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4.12 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
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