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The Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner
4.19 average rating, · 24.7k ratings
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Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarantino
4.03 average rating, · 15.3k ratings
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
François Truffaut
4.47 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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Making Movies
Sidney Lumet
4.29 average rating, · 10.5k ratings
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Peter Biskind
4.14 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
William Goldman
4.13 average rating, · 8.6k ratings
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Casino
Nicholas Pileggi
4.06 average rating, · 8k ratings
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My Story
Marilyn Monroe
4.06 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodríguez
4.19 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me
Ralph Macchio
4.03 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Something Like an Autobiography
Akira Kurosawa
4.13 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris
4.48 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
Sam Wasson
4.10 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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Lynch on Lynch
David Lynch
4.28 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Magic Lantern
Ingmar Bergman
4.08 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
Nick de Semlyen
4.11 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Matt Singer
4.04 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog
4.04 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
Chris Taylor
4.20 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Herzog on Herzog
Paul Cronin
4.47 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
Ed Zwick
4.00 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud
Shaun Considine
4.19 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman
4.03 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Burton on Burton
Tim Burton
4.09 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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