The Oliver Stone Experience (signed by Oliver Stone)

Matt Zoller Seitz; Oliver Stone

ISBN 10: 1419717901 / ISBN 13: 9781419717901

Published by Abrams, 2016

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Abrams, 2016. Hardcover. First edition. Book condition: new. First edition, first printing. Brand new unread copy. Large exhaustive book about the life and career of Oliver Stone - extensive no holds barred interviews with Stone about his life and work, personal photographs, storyboards, script pages, behind the scenes set photography. Serves as both a handbook on Stone's films and a collaborative autobiography of the artist. Fine copy. Signed by Matt Zoller Seitz and Oliver Stone at the book launch in Brooklyn, September 11, 2016, 4 days before Oliver Stone's 70th birthday and the world premiere of "Snowden." Large heavy volume may require extra shipping. Ships to United States only. Seller Inventory # wi664os

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Oliver Stone Experience (signed by ...

Publisher: Abrams

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

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