A Life in Movies, Irwin Winkler
A Life in Movies, Irwin Winkler
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A Life in Movies
Stories from 50 years in Hollywood

Author: Irwin Winkler

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Irwin Winkler

Irwin Winkler is an American film producer, writer, and director. He is the recipient of numerous American and international honors.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry

Irwin Winkler started out as a summer-only mail boy at MGM but through luck, personality, and persistence became an agent, then producer with his partner, Bob Chartoff, of movies as diverse as Double Trouble, Point Blank, The New Centurions, They Shoot Horses, Don't They, The Gambler, The Mechanic,......more

Goodreads review by Chloe

Winkler is my kinda guy.......more

Goodreads review by Gareth

If you like movies, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one worked on by producer Irwin Winkler. His most famous collaborations include the Rocky series and much of Martin Scorsese’s filmography. In this breezy rundown of his career, Winkler’s cheery demeanour comes in handy a few times as some deals......more