Böcker av Patrick McGilligan

An exciting new collection of interviews with important screen artists.The acclaimed biographer of RobertAltman, GeorgeCukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Oscar Micheaux and other major film figures, Patrick McGilligan is also a leading oral historian of film. His Backstory series devoted to screenwriters and Tender Comrades, focusing on blacklist survivors, helped set the standard for interview books.Still Film Crazy (After All These Years) is an informal sequel to Film Crazy, his earlier collection featuring some of the most famous names of the Golden Age. Spanning fifty years of reportage, these interviews date back to the 1970s, and include Ken Russell, Ralph Bakshi, Peter Weir and Oliver Stone, forgotten blacklist veterans, Clint Eastwood in his prime, a rare encounter with the star of Oscar Micheaux's last "race picture," several international auteurs, and a special section on French cinema, its love affair with Hollywood, and its own greatest films and filmmakers.

"Woody Allen was once made a knight commander by France, but he didn't know because the paperwork got lost in the mail. A decade later, he found out about the award by reading about it in the New York Times. Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen's life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar's television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequential American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata. In this judicious biography, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan charts the meteoric rise and fall of the comedian whose nonconformity proved both his secret genius and Achilles' heel. Drawing on meticulous research, McGilligan reconstructs Allen's Brooklyn boyhood, his salad days as a television comedy writer, his rise to stand-up, and the thoughtful, award-winning film-making of his golden years in the 1970s and '80s. His messy relationships with wives and girlfriends, including Annie Hall costar Diane Keaton, were essential to his artistic development and undo-ing. Yet no one could have predicted his tumultuous personal and professional relationship with actress Mia Farrow, his alleged abuse of their adopted daughter Dylan, and his subsequent marriage to Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn ... [In this] rigor-ous account of Allen's life and career, McGilligan astutely reveals the writer's writer beyond the smoke and controversy, and paints a compelling portrait of the most creative, productive, and influential film-maker of his time." --book jacket.

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota--and going on from there to become the king of the "race cinema" industry, producing and/or directing nearly forty films during a time of Jim Crow segregation when African-American artists were not welcome in Hollywood.In this groundbreaking new biography, award-winning film historian Patrick McGilligan offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of a true pioneer of American culture who was equal parts visionary, hustler, huckster, innovator, and raffish Barnum-like showman--and the first great African-American filmmaker.