Books, 10/25.

"[J]ust as Match Point opened up Allen to a new generation of moviegoers and brought him a return to critical relevance, so too should Eric Lax's Conversations With Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking," writes Tod Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. "Compiled over 36 years of interviews, conversations and experiences one could only glean from gaining Allen's confidence and respect, Conversations is essential reading for aspiring filmmakers and those who wish to eventually put finger to keyboard in hopes of telling a story, but it is no less intriguing for simple cinephiles." And for the New York Press, Eric Kohn talks with Lax.

"There have been thousand of books about actors and hundreds about directors, but you can practically count the number of books about screenwriters on two hands. This latest is the best - by far." In the New York Observer, Scott Eyman reviews Marc Norman's What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting.

Bookforum points to the Introduction to Shyon Baumann's Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art.

Posted by dwhudson at October 25, 2007 2:14 PM