A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
£9.30
The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve.
In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first film—starring Elvis—in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, he produced a string of provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era.
This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts, casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards. Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes readers behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.
“Charming and anecdote packed . . . popcorn for movie nerds.” —Newsweek
“A deftly written recollection of an eventful and happy life in a precarious and, frankly, insane business; a remarkably clear-eyed look behind the scenes of moviemaking.” —Kevin Kline
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Additional information
| Publisher | ABRAMS Press (7 May 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 7453 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 308 pages |
by Nolly
Excellent read I recommend it.
by mr carlos mangani
Very entertaining.
by pmov
After reading this book, the overriding impression I get is that Irwin Winkler is a much better film producer than he is an author. This is a by-the-numbers, chronological run-through of behind-the-scenes stories of the making of a wide-range of well-known (and less well-known) movies. Winkler’s inside scoop on so many key productions can’t help but make this moderately interesting but the delivery is flat, there’s no sense of personality or warmth and I found the endless name-dropping and pointless sidebars ultimately a little tiresome and self-aggrandising.
by jim
Irwin Winkler takes us on a stroll through his career as a Hollywood producer and director. The book is thankfully short of biographical content and gets straight to the movies. We learn so much about each film from the great success of the Rocky franchise to Winkler’s enduring collaboration with Martin Scorsese. With a career spanning 50 years there are many great anecdotes here from behind the scenes, and Irwin Winkler tells them very well.
by raymond
A lot of ‘how great I am’ but fascinating as to how movies are put together and the egos that are involved in movie making.