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    A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
    A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
    A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
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    A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood

    Written by Irwin Winkler

    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray

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    The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, and Creed. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve.

    In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first film-starring Elvis-in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, he produced a string of provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era.

    This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts, casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards. Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes listeners behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 18, 2019
    ISBN9781630157487

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    • 5/5
      A fantastic listen for anyone who's interested at all in the history of movie making. I couldn't stop listening once I started! Would recommend to anyone who loves movies...
    • 5/5
      A Perfect Film Book. Einkler has been in the film industry for 50 years. He was there as the major studios began to fall, and big business took over, and for the last 5 decades has ridden an impressive wave of hit films. From arthouse through to Rocky and Creed he's produced and directed iconic films. Some great behind scenes stories and anecdotes. Do the right thing and give Stallone the rights to Rocky!

      It's a good to see a book that takes a look at the business side of films too. This takes in the impact of multinationals, corporations, streaming etc and they have affected the film business.

      Lively narration.

    • 4/5
      Interesting look at the film industry from the point of view of a producer - getting financing and distribution as well as casting, script, director. And then the finance people may want one big name star over another. I also found it interesting that when Winkler first arrived at MGM, Louis B Mayer's office was still intact as if he was returning even though he had been gone for a long time. My only point of disagreement with Winkler, and I am among the few, is I feel, like Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, is overrated. I no longer bother to watch his films and feel sorry for someone who must have grown up in an atmosphere where every other word is a cuss word. I don't need or want to hear that.