Publisher's Synopsis
A
rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky,
and Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in
Hollywood over half a century
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, Creed, and
The Irishman. 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 readers behind the
scenes and into the history of Hollywood.
