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I've read
GWTW by Gavin Lambert
FUTURE NOIR (making of BLADE RUNNER)
some book about the making of SUPERMAN by a guy who was an actor in the Smallville scenes
Bob Balaban's diary about making CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Are there any other "making of..." books about movies that you can recommend?
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I don't know if this is true or if I'm making it up, but I think I've got one about the making of EXORCIST 2: THE HERETIC. If I'm wrong, there should be a book about the making of Boorman's troubled, misunderstood masterpiece.
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I loved Future Noir.
My first two "making of" books, purchased when I was something like 12, lo these many decades ago, were Making of Star Trek http://amzn.to/9Edo0C and The Trouble with Tribbles http://amzn.to/aAPvn9. Both are terrific and I actually reread them a couple years back.
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I loved Future Noir.
My first two "making of" books, purchased when I was something like 12, lo these many decades ago, were Making of Star Trek http://amzn.to/9Edo0C and The Trouble with Tribbles http://amzn.to/aAPvn9. Both are terrific and I actually reread them a couple years back.
Oh wait. You asked about movies. D'oh!
I've never read but almost purchased many times over the years the making of 2001 http://amzn.to/aroJFH.
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I loved Future Noir.
My first two "making of" books, purchased when I was something like 12, lo these many decades ago, were Making of Star Trek http://amzn.to/9Edo0C and The Trouble with Tribbles http://amzn.to/aAPvn9. Both are terrific and I actually reread them a couple years back.
Oh wait. You asked about movies. D'oh!
I've never read but almost purchased many times over the years the making of 2001 http://amzn.to/aroJFH.
There were also a couple of Trek movie :"making of books. One for ST:TMP ttp://amzn.to/dBVBCt, one for Wrath of Khan http://amzn.to/90iY5q and one for Shatner's Folly, er, I mean Star Trek V http://amzn.to/cejreQ.
And Walter Koenig did his own making of ST:TMP http://amzn.to/dab101.
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Sorry to keep bombarding you with stuff, but my shelves are full of this kind of thing.
For instance, Roger Moore's diary about Live and Let Die http://amzn.to/bHPRoA.
Okay, I'll stop now.
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By: GoldsmithFan (Member)
"And I don't know if it's also the same one he was thinking of or not, but Once Upon A Galaxy: A Journal of The Making of the Empire Strikes Back, by Alan Arnold, is excellent. Probably out-of-print, but worth tracking down."
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Yeah, that was the title. It goes into detail about the breakdown between Lucas and Kirschner, wherein Kirschner ended up ignoring most of Lucas' commands/instructions and stuck to his own perceived plan. The name Charles Lippincott is in my mind, did he provide all the stills for the book or something?
Once Upon A Galaxy http://amzn.to/dqlTWP
I'll go find my copy and check for Lippincott...
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Yeah, that was the title. It goes into detail about the breakdown between Lucas and Kirschner, wherein Kirschner ended up ignoring most of Lucas' commands/instructions and stuck to his own perceived plan. The name Charles Lippincott is in my mind, did he provide all the stills for the book or something?
I looked through my copy real quick. There are two sections of behind-the-scenes photos and they're all credited to different people, but I didn't see Lippincott's name on any of them.
Ditto...
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I loved Future Noir.
My first two "making of" books, purchased when I was something like 12, lo these many decades ago, were Making of Star Trek http://amzn.to/9Edo0C and The Trouble with Tribbles http://amzn.to/aAPvn9. Both are terrific and I actually reread them a couple years back.
Oh wait. You asked about movies. D'oh!
I've never read but almost purchased many times over the years the making of 2001 http://amzn.to/aroJFH.
I just remembered that I have read this one. It is GREAT, and I'm sorry I don't still have my copy. You should get it, TNG.
If you like these sorts of books (and it sounds like you do) it really is an absorbing read.
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Jul 20, 2010 - 1:46 PM
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I read a lot of these 'making of' movie books when I was younger. One of the most informative and fascinating, from a filmmaker's perspective, was John Boorman's book about the making of "The Emerald Forest":
"Money Into Light: A Diary"
By John Boorman
http://www.amazon.com/Money-into-Light-John-Boorman/dp/0571137725
I enjoyed this one, which had a real fly-on-the-wall feel:
"The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark"
by Derek Taylor
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Raiders-Lost-Ark/dp/0345297253
Here's that book Kev mentioned about Superman, which was more gossipy:
"The Making of Superman The Movie"
by David Mark Petrou
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Superman-Movie-Michael-Petrou/dp/0446825654
This one was very candid and gave me a better appreciation of the movie, which I did not like so much, but it's based on the correspondence between Peter Hyams and Arthur C. Clarke which was quite novel for its day as email:
"The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010"
by Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Hyams
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/arthur-c-clarke/odyssey-file.htm
Clarke also published a truly fascinating account of his experience with Stanley Kubrick, which is crammed full of unused concepts and extracts from abandoned screenplay scenarios:
"The Lost Worlds of 2001"
by Arthur C. Clarke
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Worlds-2001-Arthur-Clarke/dp/0451125363
And another book I treasure on that topic is this little paperback, which is more like a scrapbook of the film, from soup to nuts, including some fascinating letters to the director from early fans:
"The Making of Kubrick's 2001"
by Jerome Agel
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Kubricks-2001-Jerome-Agel/dp/0451071395
I do agree with the folks above that Carl Gottleib's "The JAWS Log" is one of the best, and I know he has updated it recently; but I also read another book published at the same time by a local Martha's Vineyard resident:
"The Making of the Movie JAWS"
by Edith Blake
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Movie-Jaws-Edith-Blake/dp/0345248821
Lots to chew on there!
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