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Woody Allen
Richard Schnickel
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Description for Woody Allen
Hardback. Between these pages, the reader finds Woody Allen reflecting on his major preoccupations - the battle of the sexes, the conflict between reality and fantasy in his films, mortality, religion and the role that chance plays in the unfolding of our lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, index. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 180 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
In an unprecedented television program last year, Woody Allen spoke to the camera for the first time about the entire range of his work, in an interview with Richard Schickel, the distinguished film critic and historian. Mr. Allen talked about how he does it, why he does it, its roots in his early life, and his current thinking about the state of his art. The result Woody Allen: A Life in Film, was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed programs in the history of Turner Classic Movies. But the presentation contained only a small fraction of Mr. Schickel's four-hour interview with the famed writer-director-actor. This new book reprints the complete conversation between the two men and includes a long essay of introduction by Mr. Schickel, which places Woody Allen's entire career in critical perspective. Readers will find Mr. Allen's reflections on his major preoccupations—the battle of the sexes; the conflict between reality and fantasy in his major films; mortality, religion, and the role that chance plays in the unfolding of our lives. The book also offers insights into Mr. Allen's working methods as a writer and the growth of his skills as a director, as well as his assessment of himself as an actor and his surprising views of his long life in the public eye. Brief but sharply honed, Woody Allen: A Life in Film is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the life and times of one of the most important and least understood American filmmakers of our era.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635288
SKU
V9781566635288
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About Richard Schnickel
Richard Schickel's most recent book is Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip, his memoir of growing up in the World War II years. A film critic for Time for many years, Mr. Schickel has written biographies of Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, D. W. Griffith, Cary Grant, and Walt Disney, as well as The Men Who Made the Movies, His Picture in the Papers, and Intimate Strangers, a pioneering study of celebrity. He also produces films for television. Mr. Schickel lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews for Woody Allen
...This book also offers new, tasty, nutritious stuff for Woody loyalists to savor.
Owen McNally
Hartford Courant
This is an urbane and readable work and will be of great interest to avid Allen fans...
Andrea Slonosky
Library Journal
Even those who have lost who have lost patience with Allen's recent efforts will want to read what he has to say about his 1970s masterworks.
Gordon Flagg
Booklist
As usual, Richard Schickel has nailed his subject, and this time his subject is a particularly hard one to nail.
Jeanine Basinger Witty, surprising, important (but never self-important), and—best of all—moving...a compact but very real treasure...graceful and perceptive...wonderful.
Steven Bach Clearly, Allen is comfortable talking to Schickel...a brisk read.
Chicago Tribune
The author pleads a strong case that as a gifted writer and actor of limited range, Woody Allen deserves a more prominent position in the motion picture arts.
Foreword Reviews
…Thoughtful, critical insights into Allen's screen works.
Newport News Press
…Fascinating biography of a giant in film…
Forecast
Schickel is a thoughtful observer and critic, a lively writer….
Virginia Quarterly Review
Schickel may well be the smartest, most practiced and least axe-grinding interviewer Allen has ever had.
The Buffalo News
A breezy, readable entry to Allen's vast bibliography...with an excellent Introduction and Afterword.
Richard A. Blake
America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture
Owen McNally
Hartford Courant
This is an urbane and readable work and will be of great interest to avid Allen fans...
Andrea Slonosky
Library Journal
Even those who have lost who have lost patience with Allen's recent efforts will want to read what he has to say about his 1970s masterworks.
Gordon Flagg
Booklist
As usual, Richard Schickel has nailed his subject, and this time his subject is a particularly hard one to nail.
Jeanine Basinger Witty, surprising, important (but never self-important), and—best of all—moving...a compact but very real treasure...graceful and perceptive...wonderful.
Steven Bach Clearly, Allen is comfortable talking to Schickel...a brisk read.
Chicago Tribune
The author pleads a strong case that as a gifted writer and actor of limited range, Woody Allen deserves a more prominent position in the motion picture arts.
Foreword Reviews
…Thoughtful, critical insights into Allen's screen works.
Newport News Press
…Fascinating biography of a giant in film…
Forecast
Schickel is a thoughtful observer and critic, a lively writer….
Virginia Quarterly Review
Schickel may well be the smartest, most practiced and least axe-grinding interviewer Allen has ever had.
The Buffalo News
A breezy, readable entry to Allen's vast bibliography...with an excellent Introduction and Afterword.
Richard A. Blake
America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture