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A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards
Sam Wasson
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Description for A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards
hardcover. A detailed and hilarious look at the art and life of a legendary Hollywood filmmaker Num Pages: 370 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 702.
With one of the longest and most controversial careers in Hollywood history, Blake Edwards is a phoenix of movie directors, full of hubris, ambition, and raving comic chutzpah. His rambunctious filmography remains an artistic force on par with Hollywood's greatest comic directors: Lubitsch, Sturges, Wilder. Like Wilder, Edwards's propensity for hilarity is double-helixed with pain, and in films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, and even The Pink Panther, we can hear him off-screen, laughing in the dark. And yet, despite those enormous successes, he was at one time considered a Hollywood villain. After his marriage to ... Read more
With one of the longest and most controversial careers in Hollywood history, Blake Edwards is a phoenix of movie directors, full of hubris, ambition, and raving comic chutzpah. His rambunctious filmography remains an artistic force on par with Hollywood's greatest comic directors: Lubitsch, Sturges, Wilder. Like Wilder, Edwards's propensity for hilarity is double-helixed with pain, and in films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, and even The Pink Panther, we can hear him off-screen, laughing in the dark. And yet, despite those enormous successes, he was at one time considered a Hollywood villain. After his marriage to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819569158
SKU
V9780819569158
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About Sam Wasson
SAM WASSON is currently working on a book about Breakfast at Tiffany's. He lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews for A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards
"Sam Wasson has undertaken nothing less than the critical resurrection of Blake Edwards, whose 40-film career, by turns good, great, bad, but never indifferent, has been ridiculously underrated by the critical establishment. One hopes this impressive work will inspire a splurge of revivals and retrospectives of this more than intermittently hilarious filmmaker." ANDREW SARRIS, film critic, The New York Observer" ... Read more