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Silver City and Other Screenplays


By John Sayles


Filmmaker legend John Sayles has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. This collection of his greatest work includes Sunshine State, the Oscar-nominated Passion Fish and his new film for the election year, Silver City.

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Left in the Dark

Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001

By Stuart Klawans


In 2007, The Nation's Stuart Klawans won a National Magazine Award for his sharp and revelatory film writing. This selection of reviews and essays from The Nation--as well as the New York Times, The Village Voice, Film Comment and other journals--spotlights some of his best work.

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Cinema Nation

The Best Writing on Film From The Nation, 1913-2000

By Carl Bromley and Stuart Klawans



"A fine collection of sensitive film writing from one of the first homes to serious film writing in America." --Film Comment
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I'd Hate Myself in the Morning

A Memoir

By Ring Lardner, Jr.



In this lively memoir, Ring Lardner, Jr recalls his strange existence as a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of the studio system--an existence made stranger by membership in the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party.
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