Book news. My Scorsese retrospective is at the printers, and should be in book stores by late September. Not wishing to loiter, and a firm believer that the devil finds work for idle hands, etc, I am about to embark on a sequel, for the same publishers, this one a retrospective of the films of Woody Allen, which aims to break away the encrustations and embellishments of "reputation", blow away the cobwebs, and flush out the living, breathing filmmaker underneath — in particular the antic seventies auteur who broke the fourth wall like it was wet tissue paper, threw his camera around with Godardian abandon and raised all sorts of merry hell in the editing suite, but who somehow gets omitted from the mucho-macho Dirty-Dozen-style group portraits that traditionally make up film histories of that decade. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls & Tiger Lillies, as it were.
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ReplyDeleteHave you interviewed Scorsese for the new book (as you did for Blockbuster)?
I drew on past interviews I've done with him, the first in 2001 and then again in 2011
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading it, as Blockbuster is one of my favourite books on American cinema. By the way, I also enjoyed your FT article on Sino-American co-productions.
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