Kubrick
An Odyssey
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Perry Daniels
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The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.
The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years.
Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick's archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other private papers plus new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, private, public, and working life. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey investigates not only the making of Kubrick's films, but also about those he wanted (but failed) to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I.
Revealingly, this immersive biography will puncture the controversial myths about the reclusive filmmaker who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century
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Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success, when he was only thirty. Through Zoetrope’s experimental, communal utopia, Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking. Now, more than fifty years later, despite myriad setbacks, the visionary filmmaker’s dream persists, most notably in the production of his decades-in-the-making film and the culmination of his utopian ideals, Megalopolis.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator was awful
- By Cyrus Nowrasteh on 12-17-23
By: Sam Wasson
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The Friedkin Connection
- A Memoir
- By: William Friedkin
- Narrated by: William Friedkin
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18
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Friedkin Connection takes listeners from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today. William Friedkin offers a candid look at a thrilling era of Hollywood cinema, when traditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative; when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdown.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exorcist, French Connection Director Insightful, Truthful in Memoir
- By AlexBenBlock on 03-30-25
By: William Friedkin
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Yes: The Tormato Story
- By: Kevin Mulryne
- Narrated by: Kevin Mulryne
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The music of Yes indelibly shaped the original sound of progressive rock. But the true tale of this landmark band goes well beyond headline-making albums like Fragile and Close to the Edge. In this book, Kevin Mulryne tells the absorbing story of the final Yes album of the 1970s, Tormato, uncovering myriad fascinating twists and turns for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating read.
- By Preston M. Frazier on 10-20-23
By: Kevin Mulryne
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The Future Was Now
- Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
- By: Chris Nashawaty
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1982, eight science fiction films were released within six weeks of one another. E.T., Tron, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, The Thing, and Mad Max: The Road Warrior changed the careers of some of Hollywood's now biggest names―altering the art of movie-making to this day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story about an incredible year in sci fi film making.
- By Jesse Poole Van Swol on 10-04-24
By: Chris Nashawaty
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Cinema Speculation
- By: Quentin Tarantino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Quentin Tarantino
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans—and all movie lovers—could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A letdown I didn't see coming.
- By polycow on 11-03-22
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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
- My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
- By: Ed Zwick
- Narrated by: Ed Zwick
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Though there are many factors behind such success, including luck and the contributions of his creative partner Marshall Herskovitz, he’s known to have a special talent for bringing out the best in the people he’s worked with, notably the actors. In those intense collaborations, he seeks to discover the small pieces of connective tissue, vulnerability, and fellowship that can help an actor realize their character in full.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic, Sobering & Full of Grace
- By David_Leah Wiley on 02-17-24
By: Ed Zwick
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Film Studies, Second Edition
- An Introduction
- By: Ed Sikov
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active listener and critic. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, lighting, the use of color and sound, and narrative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely read.
- By Dewey Gallegos on 08-12-23
By: Ed Sikov
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Making Movies
- By: Sidney Lumet
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards. Making Movies is an honest and unflinching look at the business and craft of movie making. Lumet's book reveals the ingredients for the potion that brings movie magic to life and assures one thing: you will never look at movies the same way again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Clearly a genius but material dates
- By M. Rogers on 08-31-19
By: Sidney Lumet
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Switched On
- Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution
- By: Albert Glinsky, Francis Ford Coppola - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contraption unexpectedly became a sensation-suddenly everyone wanted a Moog. The Moog's gamechanging sounds saturated sixties counterculture and burst into the disco party in the seventies to set off the electronic dance music movement. Bob had singlehandedly founded the synth industry and became a star.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book. Annoying narration.
- By Momo on 02-24-23
By: Albert Glinsky, and others
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Where I Was From
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- By Darwin8u on 11-04-15
By: Joan Didion
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The River of Consciousness
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren, Kate Edgar
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important but Less Interesting
- By Michael on 11-16-17
By: Oliver Sacks
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Down and Dirty Pictures
- Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film
- By: Peter Biskind
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 23 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Down and Dirty Pictures chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines - the Sundance Film Festival and Miramax Films - that have powered them. Peter Biskind profiles the people who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For the independent film lover!
- By natalie on 08-26-14
By: Peter Biskind
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Lou Reed
- The King of New York
- By: Will Hermes
- Narrated by: Will Hermes
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed’s living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed’s life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Biography I’ve Ever Read
- By Sammy Criscitello on 11-21-24
By: Will Hermes
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Here Comes the Sun
- The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison
- By: Joshua M. Greene
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Joshua Greene, who studied meditation with the legendary Beatle George Harrison, draws on personal remembrances, recorded conversations, and firsthand accounts to create a moving portrait of Harrison's spiritual life, his profound contribution to the Beatles' music, and previously unpublished anecdotes about his time with music legends Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great read
- By Joshua Deal on 12-14-20
By: Joshua M. Greene
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
- The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
- By: Foster Hirsch
- Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, Cinemascope and Vistavision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios, the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating from start to finish
- By Steve C. on 02-01-25
By: Foster Hirsch
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
- By: William Goldman
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the best-selling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic in the field stands up
- By Jenny Jenkins on 01-01-24
By: William Goldman
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- Kevin Walters
- 11-10-24
Kubrick the genius
Here is Stanley Kubrick in all his insufferable glory: The insurance claim filing, Big Mac eating, eccentric, obsessive, warm-hearted, credit-grabbing, doting dad, penny pinching maestro who tortured writers, actors, film crews, and basically anyone who got between him and his vision who was just a Jewish kid from the Bronx who liked to take photos. This is a fantastic book. That said, if you were playing a drinking game and taking a shot every time the authors used the phrase “And so Kubrick returned to ‘Tromme Novella…’” you would need emergency medical attention.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-30-25
Great, We’ll Researched Biography!
Although the first several years into Kubrick life are slow, this book, it picks up as it gets into his more popular movies and his eccentric behavior (he’s super cheap).
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- Anonymous User
- 09-16-24
Great walk through the work of a great artist
I watched all of the feature films, mainly in chronological order, with this great audiobook as a companion. A real fine journey!
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- TaoSatori
- 10-19-24
Well balanced
Think it did justice to the person Stanley was beyond his craft and the narrator was easy on my ears so I enjoyed knowing more about Kubrick
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- Jeffrey Boutwell
- 01-10-25
unflinchingly honest
a penetrating and compassionate look at a complex, demanding, obsessive, and brilliant filmmaker whose images will remain totems of 20th century culture, read with elan by Perry Daniels.
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- Kris
- 08-30-24
The Ultimate Biography
No detail is missing! Whether this is your first or fifth book on Stanley K, there will be something new and enlightening for you to savor here.
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- Saurav Mohapatra
- 09-19-24
Really awesome window into the mind of Kubrick
This is worth the long listen time -- a scintillating and engrossing journey into the mind of one of the greatest filmmakers.
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- NotHappy
- 08-01-24
Well done glimpse into the elusive Kubrick
Very much worth the time to any Kubrick or Movie fan. Perhaps the silver lining to such a tragic loss of Stanley right after her eyes wide shut is the fact that he went to sleep that night with a smile on his face. God bless you, Stanley! Until we see you again. Cheers
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- Robert
- 08-29-24
StanTastic!
Fascinating man
Fascinating movies
Fascinating to learn how the two made one another
Recommend highly
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- P. C. Jorgensen
- 07-30-24
Comprehensive and detailed
Marvelous research gives light to a genius of film, taking apart the myths and adding humaneness to Kubrick. Narrator is perfect: direct and declarative.
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