Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
by Mark Harris
Recommended by Edgar Wright
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Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clydeand through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever....
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Filmmaking, Most Recommended Books, and Art.
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Edgar Wright
“Books: Pictures At A Revolution, Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood, Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine & Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley, Hollywood Babylon (and then Karina Longworth podcast that fact checks it) x”
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