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Edgar Howard Wright is an English director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilization of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes.
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Broken Greek
WINNER OF THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2021
Pete Paphides - 2021-06-10
Edgar Wright
2021-06-03T08:55:30.000Z
Halfway through this book and LOVING it.      source
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One Two Three Four
The Beatles in Time
Craig Brown
Edgar Wright
2021-04-16T07:13:29.000Z
Adored Craig Brown’s brilliant ‘One Two Three Four: The Beatles In Time’. Funny, fascinating and beautifully structured with many detailed and engrossing tangents. Much like Mark Harris’ book on Mike Nichols, my reading slowed in the last few chapters as it didn’t want it to end.      source
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A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away
My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits―Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission
Paul Hirsch - 2019-11-05
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A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of Paul Hirsch, the Oscar-winning film editor who worked on such classics as George Lucas’s Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, Brian De Palma’s Carrie and Mission: Impossible, H...
Edgar Wright
2021-04-09T17:09:34.000Z
@PeterAPeel Loved that book.      source
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Susan J. Fowler
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Jews Don’t Count
David Baddiel - 2021-04-20
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Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you.It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel’s contention that one type of racism has been left out of this fight. In his unique combination of reasoning, ...
Edgar Wright
2021-03-31T10:31:14.000Z
Will add to the chorus of great reviews for @Baddiel's 'Jews Don't Count'; a fascinating, thought provoking and thorough account of the biases, blind spots and hypocrisies of progressives. The book is literally a longer conversation than what can be said on Twitter. A must read.      source
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Mike Nichols
A Life
Mark Harris - 2021-02-02
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A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came BackMike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he ...
Edgar Wright
2021-03-24T19:14:09.000Z
NB. This book, along with 'Five Came Back' and 'Pictures At A Revolution' prove that @MarkHarrisNYC is one of the very best writers on film, and I just want him to live forever so he can write all the film books.      source
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Susan J. Fowler
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Five Came Back
A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Mark Harris - 2015-02-24 (first published in 2014)
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In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified. In Five Came Back, he achieves something larger and even more remarkable, giving us the untold story of how...
Edgar Wright
2021-03-24T19:14:09.000Z
NB. This book, along with 'Five Came Back' and 'Pictures At A Revolution' prove that @MarkHarrisNYC is one of the very best writers on film, and I just want him to live forever so he can write all the film books.      source
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Them
Adventures with Extremists
Jon Ronson - 2003-01-07 (first published in 2001)
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From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists...
Edgar Wright
2021-01-21T15:43:22.000Z
'Them: Adventures With Extremists' by @jonronson is 20 this year. I'm not sure there's been a non-fiction book that was more of an ominous bellwether of what was to come... Required reading then, and shockingly ahead of its time, now.      source
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Nigella Lawson
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Rebel without a Crew
Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodriguez - 1996-09-01 (first published in 1995)
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In Rebel Without a Crew, famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Sin City 2, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide ...
Edgar Wright
2020-07-19T18:45:24.000Z
@paniq Great book. What really inspired me to pick up a camera and start making shorts was this UK doc back in 1988...      source
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Clive Barker's Books of Blood
Volume One (Movie Tie-In)
Clive Barker - 2020-09-29 (first published in 1984)
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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HULU ORIGINAL FILMRediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hellraiser series.Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker com...
Edgar Wright
2020-05-05T19:19:19.000Z
@jamie_graham9 I loved the Books Of Blood.      source
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The Books of Blood - Volume 6
Clive Barker - 2013-03-31
Edgar Wright
2020-05-05T19:19:19.000Z
@jamie_graham9 I loved the Books Of Blood.      source
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Seduction
Karina Longworth - 2018-11-13
Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
David Bowie by Dylan Jones
Caddyshack by Chris Nashawaty
Dolce Vita Confidential by Shawn Levy
The Show That Never Ends by David Weigel
Never a Dull Moment by David Hepworth
Hard-Boiled Hollywood by Jon Lewis
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Lonely Boy by Steve Jones
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer
Tinseltown by William J. Mann
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses by Chris Nashawaty
Shock Value by Jason Zinoman
Buzz by Jeffrey Spivak
Members Only by Paul Willetts
Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris
Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday by Kim "Howard" Johnson
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Who the Hell's in It by Peter Bogdanovich
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
On Writing by Stephen King
Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Books of Blood by Clive Barker
Clive Barker's Books of Blood by Clive Barker
Books of Blood Volume V by Clive Barker
Books of Blood Volume Two by Clive Barker (Signed)
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger