false 30949 3 0 male Sucha Beskidzka 1906/06/22 2002/03/27 246964 0520218485 9780520218482 1 <![CDATA[Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173112595m/246964.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173112595s/246964.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246964.Double_Indemnity_The_Complete_Screenplay 4.41 78 Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, Double Indemnity is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The film received almost unanimous critical success, garnering seven Academy Award nominations. More than fifty years later, most critics agree that this classic is one of the best films of all time. The collaboration between Wilder and Raymond Chandler produced a masterful script and some of the most memorable dialogue ever spoken in a movie.
This facsimile edition of Double Indemnity contains Wilder and Chandler's original -- and quite different -- ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction contextualizes the screenplay, providing hilarious anecdotes about the turbulent collaboration, as well as background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 1377 4.05 18112 1448 2000 971714 0520218558 9780520218550 2 <![CDATA[Sunset Boulevard]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179905213m/971714.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179905213s/971714.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971714.Sunset_Boulevard 4.18 39 Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography." The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.
This facsimile edition of Sunset Boulevard makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction provides an intriguing array of background details about Wilder, the film's casting and production, and the lives of those connected to what has become a classic.]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 1999 461298 0571194095 9780571194094 2 <![CDATA[The Apartment]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174956527m/461298.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174956527s/461298.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/461298.The_Apartment 4.24 37 ]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 1998 138334 3822847429 9783822847428 1 <![CDATA[Some Like It Hot]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138334.Some_Like_It_Hot 4.04 24 Includes:

Interviews with Billy Wilder, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and others

Complete facsimile of the screenplay with film stills from every scene

Excerpts from the script's first draft

Behind-the-scenes photos

Original promotional materials from all around the world

Annotated/illustrated Billy Wilder filmography

]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 9426 3.93 81 5 35049 4.54 70 7 1986 3717128 0 <![CDATA[زندگي خصوصي شرلوك هلمز]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215781424m/3717128.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215781424s/3717128.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3717128._ 3.95 19 30949 4.23 235 10 680770 3.95 19 0 1384 918071 0520218566 9780520218567 0 <![CDATA[The Lost Weekend: The Complete Screenplay]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179442147m/918071.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179442147s/918071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918071.The_Lost_Weekend_The_Complete_Screenplay 3.83 12 The Lost Weekend swept the 1945 Academy Awards, with nominations for Best Film Editing, Score, and Black and White Cinematography, and Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. It also received numerous awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes. Based on the novel by Charles Jackson, a work that many in Hollywood had thought unfilmmable because of its relentless grimness, The Lost Weekend was one of the first films to explore the devastating effects of alcoholism. Ray Milland was cast against type as Don Birnam, a writer plagued by depression and self-doubt who, as his alcoholism progresses, slips into a horrifying downward spiral of lying, begging, stealing, and madness. Milland's riveting performance won him an Oscar. Jane Wyman also delivers a powerful performance as his faithful girlfriend, Helen St. James, whose selfless love offers Birnam a hope of redemption.
This facsimile edition of The Lost Weekend not only reveals the genius of the film but also illuminates how the script stands alone as a rare, wonderful piece of writing. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction looks at the transformation from novel to film and examines Wilder and coauthor Charles Brackett's methods as collaborators. Readers will gain important insights into the craft of screenwriting, and the personality and methods of one of Hollywood's greatest directors.]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 2000 971717 0520218574 9780520218574 0 <![CDATA[Stalag 17]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179905232m/971717.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179905232s/971717.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971717.Stalag_17 4.62 8 Stalag 17 (1953), the riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, was adapted from the Broadway play directed by José Ferrer in 1951. Billy Wilder developed the play and made the film version more interesting in every way. Edwin Blum, a veteran screenwriter and friend of Wilder's, collaborated on the screenplay but found working with Wilder an agonizing experience.
Wilder's mordant humor and misanthropy percolate throughout this bitter story of egoism, class conflict, and betrayal. As in a well-constructed murder mystery, the incriminating evidence points to the wrong man. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction enriches the reading of Stalag 17 by including comparisons with the Broadway production and the reasons for Wilder's changes.]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 1999 769663 1578064449 9781578064441 3 <![CDATA[Billy Wilder: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178200958m/769663.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178200958s/769663.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769663.Billy_Wilder_Interviews 3.80 5 Wilder, born in 1906, fled from Nazi Germany and established himself in America. Starting with a celebrated 1944 Life magazine profile, the book traces his progress from his Oscar-winning hey-day of the 1940s to the 1990s, in which he is still witty, caustic, and defiant.

Often playful and sometimes outrageous, but just as often very serious, Wilder details his rise as a Berlin cub reporter to a fledgling screenwriter in Hollywood's "Golden Age." He tells the stories behind his brilliant direction of such classics as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Seven-Year Itch (1955),Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960), among others.

A dazzling raconteur, Wilder gives the scoop on the royalty of cinema, from the maddening magic of Monroe to the uncanny empathy of frequent alter ego Lemmon. Though his natural tendency is to spin marvelous anecdotes on the subject of show business, Wilder also delivers penetrating and instructive observations on his craft. On screen, his special blend of cynicism and romanticism was always expressed in a style that avoided showiness.

Billy Wilder: Interviews includes in-depth profiles, spirited Q&A's, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work. Taken together, the interviews form an unofficial memoir of a sophisticatedartist once described by a colleague as the most unusual and amusing man in Hollywood.

]]> 30949 4.23 235 10 47342 3.73 11 3 2002 461299 0910278083 9780910278089 0 <![CDATA[The Apartment and the Fortune Cookie: Two Screenplays]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/461299.The_Apartment_and_the_Fortune_Cookie_Two_Screenplays 5.00 2 30949 4.23 235 10 258775 5.00 3 0 1971 7181767 9646900194 0 <![CDATA[نینوچکا (فیلمنامه)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258885383m/7181767.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258885383s/7181767.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7181767 5.00 1 30949 4.23 235 10 664400 3.38 8 1