Conversations With John Schlesinger
Buruma, Ian
Schlesinger, John
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing whats behind it.
John Schlesinger
The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinemas most dynamic and influential artists. Now, in Conversations with John Schlesinger, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesingers nephew, reveals the directors private world in a series of in-depth interviews conducted in the later years of the directors life.
Here they discuss the impact of Schlesingers personal life on his art. As his films so readily demonstrate, Schlesinger is a wonderful storyteller, and he serves up fascinating and provocative recollections of growing up in a Jewish family during World War II, his sexual coming-of-age as a gay man in conformist 1950s England, his emergence as an artist in the Swinging 60s, and the roller-coaster ride of his career as one of the most prominent Hollywood directors of his time.
Schlesinger also discusses his artistic philosophy and approach to filmmaking, recounting stories from the sets of his masterpieces, including Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday; Marathon Man; and The Day of the Locust. He shares what it was like to direct such stars as Dustin Hoffman, John Voight, Sean Penn, Madonna, and Julie Christie (whom Schlesinger is credited with discovering) and offers his thoughts on the fickle nature of fame and success in Hollywood.
Packed with wit and keen insight into the artistic mind, Conversations with John Schlesinger is not just the candid story of a dynamic and eventful life but the true measure of an extraordinary person.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375757635
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375757631
Dewey Decimal: 791.4302/33/092
Library of Congress: 2005044350
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 177
Paper Weight (lb): .36 lb
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