 | The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose by Woody Allen
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.43 You can't watch him or read him without being influenced in some way.
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 | Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $0.01 His latest book.
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 | Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman (Modern Library Humor and Wit) by S.J. Perelman
Buy new: $23.08 / Used from: $3.89 I wish he was my dad.
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 | Modern Romance
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.40 Funnier than you realize. Watch his first three movies and his early appearances on Johnny Carson and then tell me the guy isn't a comic genius.
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 | Real Life
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.20 His first film.
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 | Lost in America
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $4.99 His third and arguably his best.
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 | Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business by David Mamet
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $1.98 A complete original
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 | On Directing Film by David Mamet
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.42 His advice on filmmaking
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 | Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.23 This will probably anger you in some way.
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 | True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $1.98 This too
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 | South of the Northeast Kingdom (National Geographic Directions) by David Mamet
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $0.01 His essays are some of the best work he's done.
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 | Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges
Buy new: $40.50 / Used from: $3.28 The first "writer-director" and maybe the best. From 1940 to 1948 he wrote and directed somewhere around seven pictures and there wasn't a clunker in the bunch. The Coen brothers learned everything they know from him.
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 | Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words by Preston Sturges
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.97 Half of this is probably a lie but holy crap what a story!
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 | Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink by Ethan Coen
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.20 The Coen brothers. They took the Sturges formula and almost made it better.
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 | Raising Arizona
Buy used from: $4.25 |
 | Miller's Crossing
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.97 |
 | Barton Fink
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.64 |
 | The Hudsucker Proxy
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.95 |
 | Fargo (Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $1.37 |
 | The Big Lebowski (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $5.50 |
 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.84 |
 | The Man Who Wasn't There
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.98 |
 | The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $7.75 I wish he was my eccentric, rich uncle.
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 | A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
Buy used from: $6.90 Ben Hecht is the greatest writer you've never heard of.
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 | Herzog on Herzog by Werner Herzog
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $9.50 This guy is a f*#king alien. I'm not even going to try to describe this nutjob but I'm forever changed for having watched his films and listened to him speak.
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 | Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: A Film Legacy
Buy used from: $32.20 |
 | Werner Herzog Collection
Buy new: $54.99 / Used from: $24.35 |
 | Wim Wenders Collection (The American Friend/Lightning Over Water/Notebook on Cities and Clothes)
Buy used from: $8.89 Another of the "New German Cinema" filmmakers whose films and writings have had a major impact on me.
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 | The Wim Wenders Collection, Vol. 2
Buy used from: $71.99 |
 | Wim Wenders: On Film: Essays and Conversations by Wenders Wim
Buy used from: $15.00 |
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