The Oliver Stone Experience

Author : Matt Zoller Seitz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613128142
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oliver Stone Experience written by Matt Zoller Seitz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form. Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden) and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Collection) discussed, debated, and deconstructed the arc of Stone's outspoken, controversial life and career with extraordinary candor. This book collects those conversations for the first time, including anecdotes about Stone's childhood, Vietnam, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Their dialogue is illustrated by hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and documents from Stone's personal archive, dating back to Stone's birth: personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, behind-the-scenes photography, and production files from all of his films to date—through 2016's Snowden, and including Stone's epic Showtime mini-series Untold HIstory of the United States. Critical commentary from Seitz on each of Stone's films is joined by original essays from filmmaker Ramin Bahrani; writer, editor, and educator Kiese Laymon; writer and actor Jim Beaver; and film critics Walter Chaw, Michael Guarnieri, Kim Morgan, and Alissa Wilkinson. At once a complex analysis of a master director’s vision and a painfully honest critical biography in widescreen technicolor, The Oliver Stone Experience is as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone’s films—it's an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, in the form of a book. Both this book and Stone’s highly anticipated film, Snowden, will be released in September 2016 to coincide with Stone’s seventieth birthday (September 15, 1946). Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: Mad Men Carousel, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.

Author : Oliver Stone
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0358346231
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Light written by Oliver Stone and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone's scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express. Chasing the Light is a true insider's look at Hollywood's years of upheaval in the 1970s and '80s.

Author : Matt Zoller Seitz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683351908
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oliver Stone Experience (Text-Only Edition) written by Matt Zoller Seitz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form. Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden) and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Collection) discussed, debated, and deconstructed the arc of Stone's outspoken, controversial life and career with extraordinary candor. This book collects those conversations for the first time, including anecdotes about Stone's childhood, Vietnam, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Critical commentary from Seitz on each of Stone's films is joined by original essays from filmmaker Ramin Bahrani; writer, editor, and educator Kiese Laymon; writer and actor Jim Beaver; and film critics Walter Chaw, Michael Guarnieri, Kim Morgan, and Alissa Wilkinson. At once a complex analysis of a master director’s vision and a painfully honest critical biography in widescreen technicolor, The Oliver Stone Experience is as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone’s films—it's an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, in the form of a book. Both this book and Stone’s highly anticipated film, Snowden, will be released in September 2016 to coincide with Stone’s seventieth birthday (September 15, 1946). Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: Mad Men Carousel, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.

Author : Quarto Generic
Publisher : Remainders
ISBN 13 : 9780760364536
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oliver Stone Experience written by Quarto Generic and published by Remainders. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Riordan
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786882014
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone written by James Riordan and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1996-12-12 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the highly acclaimed, often controversial director, based on material from his family, filmmaking colleagues, and Stone himself, reveals the sensational story of the filmmaker and his professional achievements. Reprint.

Author : Oliver Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147679166X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concise Untold History of the United States written by Oliver Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Text in this work is taken from the transcript from the author's documentary on Showtime, which was based on the Gallery Books publication titled The untold history of the United States"--Title page verso.

Author : Robert Brent Toplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Stone's USA written by Robert Brent Toplin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging audiences and critics alike, the films of Oliver Stone have compelled many viewers to re-examine some of their most revered beliefs about America's past. Stone has generated enormous controversy and debate among those who take issue with his dramatic use of history. This book brings Stone face to face with some of his most thoughtful critics and supporters and allows him room to respond to their views. Writers including David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Walter LaFeber and Robert Rosenstone critique Stone's most contested films to show how they may distort, amplify or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict.

Author : Oliver Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451613520
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Untold History of the United States written by Oliver Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to the ten-part documentary series outlines provocative arguments against official American historical records to reveal the origins of conservatism and the obstacles to progressive change.

Author : Patricia Lambert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0871319209
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Witness written by Patricia Lambert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Headline news for almost three years in the 1960s, the investigation was uncovered as a set-up, then in 1990, Oliver Stone's film told the same lies again.

Author : Oliver Stone
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312194468
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Child's Night Dream written by Oliver Stone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American anti-hero Oliver Stone joins the literary canon with this bold tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey to hell.