Michael Tolkin
1) NK3
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity. In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Life for the community inside the Fence, ruled over by the new aristocracy, the Verified, is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This follow-up to the classic black comedy about the film industry.
In The Player, the Hollywood novel that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last six million dollars, i.e., broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His first wife still loves him. His children hate him. And, believing that the end of the world is happening, he wants to save them...
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Frank Gale is sick of cheating on his wife, Anna, and he wants to tell her the truth, but in the right way. Everything looks better when he decides to take her and their daughter on a sudden trip to Mexico, where he can give Anna the carefully crafted letter that details the nature of his affair. One mistake: He's late meeting them at the airport. He misses the plane; he'll have to take the next flight: and then everything changes. In his first novel,...
4) The player
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. Ruthlessly ambitious, Mill is driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. He listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment of their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer whose pitch he responded to so glibly is sending him mortally...
5) Under radar
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Tom Levy's vacation in Jamaica turns deadly when he kills a man who tricked Tom's daughter into a vulgar act.
6) Nine
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With only a week left before shooting begins on the filming of his latest movie, world famous film director Guido Contini is desperately searching for a way to overcome his creative block. Escaping to a seaside resort, he attempts to restore the equilibrium to his personal and professional existence by drawing inspiration from the women in his life.
9) Deep impact
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. Each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her. Special features include: three all new featurettes, commentary, and much more.
10) The Rapture
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young woman, so unhappy with her life that she attempts suicide, undergoes a religious conversion when she is comforted by members of a cult. Her involvement with the cult leads to a frightening and ultimately tragic denouement.
11) The player
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite.
13) The player
Series
Criterion collection ; 812
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...