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Filmmaker Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Book Cover for: Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?, Magnus Vinding

Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?

Magnus Vinding
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

Penny Lane talks with Lauren Wissot about her #SXSW2023 premiering doc, "Confessions of a Good Samaritan," #effectivealtruism and donating her own kidney. https://t.co/8SYPkdE8Ud https://t.co/QWIMsWGYT1

Paperback, 2018

$6.15Member price:$3.08 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Affliction, Russell Banks

Affliction

Russell Banks
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

R.I.P. Russell Banks, whose novels include “The Sweet Hereafter” and “Affliction,” the basis of films by Atom Egoyan and Paul Schrader. https://t.co/XpkmHSsjpx

Paperback, 2013

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Asteroid City, Wes Anderson

Asteroid City

Wes Anderson
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

Vadim Rizov on Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City," which premiered tonight in Cannes. https://t.co/0ulmgtkFvc

Hardcover, 2023

$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Levels of Life: A Memoir, Julian Barnes

Levels of Life: A Memoir

Julian Barnes
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

@alyssaharad Julian Barnes’s “Levels of Life”

Paperback, 2014

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Confess, Fletch, Gregory McDonald

Confess, Fletch

Gregory McDonald
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

A fantastic interview of "Confess, Fletch" director Greg Mottola by @vrizov that will be especially of interest to fans of Gregory Mcdonald and those curious about adaptation history. Plus, Mottola's wisdom on shooting comedy, 30 day schedules, etc. https://t.co/fzwFtPFKR0

Paperback, 2018

$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Euphoria, Lorraine McLeod

Euphoria

Lorraine McLeod
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

Costume designer and producer Heidi Bivens ("Inland Empire," "Spring Breakers," "Euphoria" and, upcoming, "The Idol") talks to @Abbey_Bender about her new @A24 book, "Euphoria Fashion," working w/ Korine and Lynch, and more. https://t.co/yCdPkwC0tv https://t.co/3uWbqcUEez

Paperback, 2012

$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Apolonia, Jamie McGuire

Apolonia

Jamie McGuire
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

Compelling interview of filmmaker Lea Glob (the @tribecafilmfest premiering "Apolonia, Apolonia," about the figurative painter Apolonia Sokol) by Lauren Wissot. https://t.co/gCZWV0TW0h

Paperback, 2014

$9.45Member price:$4.72 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin

My Winnipeg

Guy Maddin
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

Kelly Reichardt's crankily sublime "Showing Up" opens today. There are many interviews! Read ours, w/ Guy Maddin, for extended appreciations of Jim Broadbent + George Kuchar, Mast Books meetings, "My Winnipeg" and riffs on teaching + health insurance. https://t.co/Fxgbf731aJ

Paperback, 2005

$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

Of all the Filmmaker newsletters that went out in 2021, one got the most response: this one on why screenwriters should read George Saunders's "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life." https://filmmakermagazine.com/112170-newsletter-of-the-year-why-screenwriters-should-read-george-saunderss-a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-in-which-four-russians-give-a-master-class-on-writing-reading-and-life/#.Yc4YGy-B1ZM

Paperback, 2022

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Honor society: surprisingly dark high school comedy, Christopher B. Romero

Honor society: surprisingly dark high school comedy

Christopher B. Romero
Filmmaker MagazineFilmmaker Magazine

21-year-old Australian actor Angourie Rice, currently starring in "Honor Society," is @Peter_Rinaldi's guest on the Back to One podcast. Among the topics, her literary podcast, "The Community Library," and how that has informed her script reading. https://t.co/EyPYlxN5xO

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