Pre-Owned Pictures at a Revolution : Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover) 9781594201523

from reenum

Harris takes a fascinating look at the making of five different movies. We see the wrinkles behind all the glossy stars of days gone by, such as Rex Harrison's racism, Warren Beatty's uneasy leap into producing, and Sidney Poitier's struggle against racism and fame in America.

from captbunzo

My first thoughts on reviewing this book were not terribly positive as I truly had a lot of trouble really getting into the book in the first place. So I set it down for a couple of months. With the arrival of the summer film season, I picked "Scenes From A Revolution" up again and found it a rea...

from hardlyhardy

"As in the case with most Academy Awards ceremonies, there was less symbolism to be extracted from the evening than morning-after analysts might have imagined, and even that applied only to the Academy's taste in movies, not to the country's." -- Mark Harris, "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movie...

from theanalogdivide

Mark Harris' book is a chronicle of Hollywood casting off its Production Code-chrysalis and emerging as a completely different beast. With overlapping dialogue and storylines, the book moves much like the films foreshadowed in this singular cinematic year.

from iamza

Fascinating look behind the scenes at the personalities and tribulations involved in the making of the five Oscar nominees for Best Film in 1968. As someone who knows little about film history, I was amazed by how quickly I was drawn into the behind the scenes intrigues and shenanigans. Mark Harr...