Mitchell Zuckoff—who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died—weaves Altman’s final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life. Here are page after page of revelations that force us to reevaluate Altman as a man and an artist, and to view his sprawling narratives with large casts, multiple story lines, and overlapping dialogue as unquestionably the work of a modern genius.
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.
His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few enemies, as well as the agents, writers, crew members, producers, and stars who worked with him, including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Robin Williams, Cher, and many others. There is even Altman himself, in the form of his exclusive last interviews.
After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers through enemy fire in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog-tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with the movie M*A*S*H. He revolutionized American filmmaking, and, in a decade, produced masterpieces at an astonishing pace: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, 3 Women, and, of course, Nashville. Then, after a period of disillusionment with Hollywood—as well as Hollywood’s disillusionment with him—he reinvented himself with a bold new set of masterworks: The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. Finally, just before the release of the last of his nearly forty movies, A Prairie Home Companion, he received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement from the Academy, which had snubbed him for so many years.
Mitchell Zuckoff—who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died—weaves Altman’s final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life. Here are page after page of revelations that force us to reevaluate Altman as a man and an artist, and to view his sprawling narratives with large casts, multiple story lines, and overlapping dialogue as unquestionably the work of a modern genius.
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物以類聚。接受采訪的bob故人個個妙語連珠。難怪bob說選角結束他作為導演的任務就完成瞭。但很多人其實隻有在他手裏纔演得最好。
評分按照作品順序的口述式傳記,漸入佳境。不瞭解Bob的人會因為本書喜歡他,本來就喜歡他的人會變得不可自拔!他雖然脾氣犟,總和好萊塢鬧矛盾,但為瞭製片人和投資方,會穿得很帥氣去奧斯卡現場;他雖然總喜歡臨場發揮,讓編劇不爽,尤其是《MASH》和《高斯福莊園》,卻讓兩位編劇都獲得瞭小金人;他真心愛他所有的演員,充分信任他們,尊重他們的任何決定和發揮,而且拉攏他們進劇組的方式很簡單——一起吸大麻…… (不過可能需要把他的片子大多數看一遍會更容易把書看明白)
評分物以類聚。接受采訪的bob故人個個妙語連珠。難怪bob說選角結束他作為導演的任務就完成瞭。但很多人其實隻有在他手裏纔演得最好。
評分物以類聚。接受采訪的bob故人個個妙語連珠。難怪bob說選角結束他作為導演的任務就完成瞭。但很多人其實隻有在他手裏纔演得最好。
評分物以類聚。接受采訪的bob故人個個妙語連珠。難怪bob說選角結束他作為導演的任務就完成瞭。但很多人其實隻有在他手裏纔演得最好。
Robert Altman 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載