The Oliver Stone Experience Hardcover English by Matt Zoller Seitz - 17 Nov 2016

Matt Zoller Seitz

Oliver Stone is one of the grand masters of American cinema. A multiple Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden), he is as well known for his outspoken, controversial political beliefs as he is for his innovative films.Over the course of five years, Stone and author Matt Zoller Seitz discussed the arc of Stone's life and work with extraordinary candor. The cinematic mastermind shares anecdotes about Vietnam, his childhood, his struggles with posttraumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Seitz was given unprecedented access to Stone's personal archive, and these interviews are accompanied by never-before-seen material that dates back to Stone's childhood in the 1950s, including personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, and behind-the-scenes photography. At once a complex analysis of a master director's vision and a painfully honest autobiography, The Oliver Stone Experience promises to be as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone's films.

1419717901

9781419717901

English

Abrams

17 Nov 2016

480

Matt Zoller Seitz is the television critic for New York magazine and the editor in chief of RogerEbert. He is the author of The Wes Anderson Collection and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. He lives in Brooklyn.

Seitz's auteurist biography is kaleidoscopic in its dispensing of intimate photographs, archival images and pop culture iconography. Just as Stone's own kinetic editing explodes in his films, so does the book conflate dynamic interviews and critical analyses with taut narrative urgency.--MovieMaker "Jammed with lengthy Q&As with two-time Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, as well as news clippings, scripts, rare photos, and memos, Matt Zoller Seitz's 480-page book is, like the filmmaker and his movies, obsessive and captivating."--Variety online "...it's the must-have movie book of the fall...It's a film school in book form - enlightening, entertaining, and essential."--Flavorwire ". . . a lavish coffee-table book full of images and introspection. . ."--Parade online "...definitive...everything you could possibly want to know about the filmmaker."--AM New York ". . . this lavish, beautiful book is as much a piece of serious criticism as it is an expression of pure movie love."--The Miami Herald