Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. As I am writing this review of Oliver Stone’s fascinating new memoir, Chasing the Light, news agencies around the world report that director Alan Parker is dead. 20,22 € ", —Paul Schrader, screenwriter of Taxi Driver, “Oliver takes you on a journey of desire, success and failure and ultimately success, deeply personal, with an uncanny self-effacing vulnerability that is not necessarily associated with Oliver; this is a companionable book of profound, usable insights. 12, “Fantastic…the dual theme of chasing and being chased by the light is central to Oliver’s life story…there are luminescent passages throughout this book to crack open the reader’s consciousness to a second reality…Chasing the Light is not a superficial trip down memory lane like so many memoirs by famous people; Stone is a wonderful writer, and as with his films, he takes you deep to places you may wish to avoid but are essential for true sanity.
In his generally positive review of the film, Leonard Maltin remarked that it was hard to get into Salvador at first because “the characters played by Woods and Belushi” are “such incredible sleazeballs.” Also not an unreasonable assessment. And, considering the projects he wanted to undertake and the Reagan era politics of the time, it is astonishing he ever got those projects made. 16,00 €, 6,99 € Edward Curtin. , for example, to keep track of items stored in your shopping basket, prevent fraudulent activity, improve the security of our services, keep track of your specific preferences (e.g. Bravo. Oliver Stone’s journey from naive warrior for madness cloaked as civilizing virtue in Vietnam to his Academy Award triumph as the forty year old director of Platoon is the establishing shot to a lifetime of work that brilliantly shattered Hollywood’s obsession with American innocence no matter the horrid consequence. Stone notes that Pauline Kael thought so, dismissing Platoon in her typically reactionary way. The interaction was what excited her to no end, and because of that she was a firecracker and lit many a spark in other people’s lives. Chasing the Light provides an insight into the creative process of one of the brilliant, if polarizing, minds at work in cinema.
He provokes outrage. Oliver Stone is larger than life. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. ... By the end of the book, Oliver, now forty-years-old in 1987, is on the top of the world when he wins Oscars for Platoon, and although he revels in this victory, something continues to eat at him, as if he hadn’t really reached Ithaca, but was still on the journey.
He stirs up controversy. He seizes the reader by the throat and shouts: Consciousness! He has no respect for safe places. Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself. To be continued?
He pricks the bubbles of the namby-pambies. For his part, the director Brian De Palma gave a similar account in the recent film De Palma. Oliver Stone is larger than life. © 2020 He pricks the bubbles of the namby-pambies. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2020. Ultimately, however, after a complicated sequence of events, detailed in the book, he ended up writing the screenplay for the film Scarface. He has no respect for safe places. Besides literally kicking people around during the shooting, he also pushed them beyond their limits, which nearly caused a horrendous helicopter accident that would have killed himself and several people aboard.
...desperate and dangerous...giddily exhilarating. by Oliver Stone. 18,00 €, 10,00 € so we can make improvements. The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself. Fearless, candid and packed with anecdotes about Tinseltown’s biggest stars, Chasing the Light is an enthralling memoir from a true filmmaking auteur.
Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself.
His autobiography is a fascinating exposure of Stone’s inner life and his powerful, all devouring energy and genius that drove him to become one of the world's greatest filmmakers. It begins with Stone being born in 1946, a little more than a year after V-J Day, in New York to his non-practicing Jewish father, Louis Stone, and his French mother, Jacqueline Pauline Cezarine Goddet. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Hidden History Center and is the author of the collections Dissenting Views and Dissenting Views II. 11,40 €, 9,71 € But to be the son of such a person is not simple, and I could never satisfy her as a son or as the engine in her life. His autobiography is a fascinating exposure of Stone's inner life and his powerful, all devouring energy and genius that drove him to become one of the world's greatest filmmakers. I thank Oliver for writing Chasing the Light, especially for my NYU grad film students-or anybody else with artistic dreams of working in this thing called the movie business. | 675g. The more serious elements of the script, including the amazing scene in which Alejandro Sosa (played by the late Paul Shenar) introduces Tony Montana (Pacino) to public officials as they watch a reporter discuss some of the truths of drug industry—tend to be lost. But the truth is it was always more or less this way. "Chasing the Light is a deep book, illuminated and relentless, prose at its best…What Oliver Stone has written will last, because I have never seen anything like his insights into the way the film industry works.."—Werner Herzog “Oliver Stone is a giant provocateur in the Hollywood movie system. It has a documentary feel to it that more conventional Hollywood dramas lacked, e.g. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Pacino, devoted to theater, also recalled that Muni and gangster pictures in general were a favorite of Bertolt Brecht. It's a rip-roaring read. And some films which took substantial liberties with true events e.g.
Even though I already knew a bit how it turns out up to now, I found it hard to put the book down, as if he himself, in his struggles and defeats and victories, is the most intense of his own powerful films. Stone rattles cages. Following his success with the script for Midnight Express and his ensuing Oscar, Stone learns a brutal lesson that almost all Hollywood writers learn.
No one writes a Hollywood memoir with such candour as Oliver Stone. Simply reserve online and pay at the counter when you collect. The site uses cookies to offer you a better experience. Stone eventually gets over his malaise, growing to have contempt for the New York society people whose experience of Vietnam is at a vast remove from his own. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Your order is now being processed and we have sent a confirmation email to you at. And for another, because Stone entered the project of adapting the story for screen with the same dedication to truth that he has revealed in all his work. They were not well-matched, alas, but Stone writes eloquently about his relationship to both. CHASING THE LIGHT Writing, Directing, and Surviving “Platoon,” “Midnight Express,” “Scarface,” “Salvador,” and the Movie Game By Oliver Stone 330 pp. Stone has a genuinely different take on the world - the early years before he made it are worth reading alone. It is utterly poignant today to follow his relentless pursuit of personal, artistic, and political freedom in constant confrontation with the still darkly looming forces of ignorance, selfishness, obsessive power, cruelty, and greed, forces that have brought us to today’s existential crises. Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. Stone is interested in the forces that shaped him as a person and an artist, as well as the seeds of his mad ambition, which partly manifested themselves in his tempestuous filmmaking experiences. Here we have the antithesis of the cliched shallow, ego-stroking Hollywood autobiography, as the writer-director lays bare his flaws and failures alongside his hard-fought victories. But he has. Unable to add item to List. 9,50 €, 14,59 € Available. Editor.
Please try your request again later. Roger Spottiswoode’s Under Fire, mentioned by Stone as a film made with a similar theme. Weight: 675 g Even Oscar-winning ones get hot for five minutes and then it’s on to the next one down. Bravo.' 21,10 €, 8,69 € ... Sequel, please? Oliver, in honest and sometimes brutal fashion, lays it out-what it took for him to get to where he hoped to be-a successful writer/director working in Hollywood; the road it took is hard AF. And at this point, Stone decides he is going to make his independent films happen, and direct them, and get them distributed. It is easy to recall and contrast another helicopter accident, one that claimed actor Vic Morrow’s life along with two children. Cracking read, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2020. No one writes a Hollywood memoir with such candour as Oliver Stone. Excellent. Something went wrong. "One of the first basic lessons in filming," he writes, "is chasing the light. Chasing the Light says it all.' The amount of times Stone came close to giving up on film or was nearly bankrupt, or even close to death, and the landscape of cinema would be changed forever. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. OLIVER STONE is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of Platoon, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killer, Midnight Express, and many other films. I would love to read the second part if it were published in the future. {"bd_js_shop":"Shop","bd_js_too_long_for_shipping_label":"Sorry, that's too long for our shipping labels","bd_js_too_long":"Sorry, that's too long","bd_js_could_not_find_address_try_again":"Sorry, we couldn't find the address. Then he wishes he were dead. Stone rattles cages.
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In his generally positive review of the film, Leonard Maltin remarked that it was hard to get into Salvador at first because “the characters played by Woods and Belushi” are “such incredible sleazeballs.” Also not an unreasonable assessment. And, considering the projects he wanted to undertake and the Reagan era politics of the time, it is astonishing he ever got those projects made. 16,00 €, 6,99 € Edward Curtin. , for example, to keep track of items stored in your shopping basket, prevent fraudulent activity, improve the security of our services, keep track of your specific preferences (e.g. Bravo. Oliver Stone’s journey from naive warrior for madness cloaked as civilizing virtue in Vietnam to his Academy Award triumph as the forty year old director of Platoon is the establishing shot to a lifetime of work that brilliantly shattered Hollywood’s obsession with American innocence no matter the horrid consequence. Stone notes that Pauline Kael thought so, dismissing Platoon in her typically reactionary way. The interaction was what excited her to no end, and because of that she was a firecracker and lit many a spark in other people’s lives. Chasing the Light provides an insight into the creative process of one of the brilliant, if polarizing, minds at work in cinema.
He provokes outrage. Oliver Stone is larger than life. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. ... By the end of the book, Oliver, now forty-years-old in 1987, is on the top of the world when he wins Oscars for Platoon, and although he revels in this victory, something continues to eat at him, as if he hadn’t really reached Ithaca, but was still on the journey.
He stirs up controversy. He seizes the reader by the throat and shouts: Consciousness! He has no respect for safe places. Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself. To be continued?
He pricks the bubbles of the namby-pambies. For his part, the director Brian De Palma gave a similar account in the recent film De Palma. Oliver Stone is larger than life. © 2020 He pricks the bubbles of the namby-pambies. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2020. Ultimately, however, after a complicated sequence of events, detailed in the book, he ended up writing the screenplay for the film Scarface. He has no respect for safe places. Besides literally kicking people around during the shooting, he also pushed them beyond their limits, which nearly caused a horrendous helicopter accident that would have killed himself and several people aboard.
...desperate and dangerous...giddily exhilarating. by Oliver Stone. 18,00 €, 10,00 € so we can make improvements. The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself. Fearless, candid and packed with anecdotes about Tinseltown’s biggest stars, Chasing the Light is an enthralling memoir from a true filmmaking auteur.
Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself.
His autobiography is a fascinating exposure of Stone’s inner life and his powerful, all devouring energy and genius that drove him to become one of the world's greatest filmmakers. It begins with Stone being born in 1946, a little more than a year after V-J Day, in New York to his non-practicing Jewish father, Louis Stone, and his French mother, Jacqueline Pauline Cezarine Goddet. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Hidden History Center and is the author of the collections Dissenting Views and Dissenting Views II. 11,40 €, 9,71 € But to be the son of such a person is not simple, and I could never satisfy her as a son or as the engine in her life. His autobiography is a fascinating exposure of Stone's inner life and his powerful, all devouring energy and genius that drove him to become one of the world's greatest filmmakers. I thank Oliver for writing Chasing the Light, especially for my NYU grad film students-or anybody else with artistic dreams of working in this thing called the movie business. | 675g. The more serious elements of the script, including the amazing scene in which Alejandro Sosa (played by the late Paul Shenar) introduces Tony Montana (Pacino) to public officials as they watch a reporter discuss some of the truths of drug industry—tend to be lost. But the truth is it was always more or less this way. "Chasing the Light is a deep book, illuminated and relentless, prose at its best…What Oliver Stone has written will last, because I have never seen anything like his insights into the way the film industry works.."—Werner Herzog “Oliver Stone is a giant provocateur in the Hollywood movie system. It has a documentary feel to it that more conventional Hollywood dramas lacked, e.g. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Pacino, devoted to theater, also recalled that Muni and gangster pictures in general were a favorite of Bertolt Brecht. It's a rip-roaring read. And some films which took substantial liberties with true events e.g.
Even though I already knew a bit how it turns out up to now, I found it hard to put the book down, as if he himself, in his struggles and defeats and victories, is the most intense of his own powerful films. Stone rattles cages. Following his success with the script for Midnight Express and his ensuing Oscar, Stone learns a brutal lesson that almost all Hollywood writers learn.
No one writes a Hollywood memoir with such candour as Oliver Stone. Simply reserve online and pay at the counter when you collect. The site uses cookies to offer you a better experience. Stone eventually gets over his malaise, growing to have contempt for the New York society people whose experience of Vietnam is at a vast remove from his own. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Your order is now being processed and we have sent a confirmation email to you at. And for another, because Stone entered the project of adapting the story for screen with the same dedication to truth that he has revealed in all his work. They were not well-matched, alas, but Stone writes eloquently about his relationship to both. CHASING THE LIGHT Writing, Directing, and Surviving “Platoon,” “Midnight Express,” “Scarface,” “Salvador,” and the Movie Game By Oliver Stone 330 pp. Stone has a genuinely different take on the world - the early years before he made it are worth reading alone. It is utterly poignant today to follow his relentless pursuit of personal, artistic, and political freedom in constant confrontation with the still darkly looming forces of ignorance, selfishness, obsessive power, cruelty, and greed, forces that have brought us to today’s existential crises. Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. Stone is interested in the forces that shaped him as a person and an artist, as well as the seeds of his mad ambition, which partly manifested themselves in his tempestuous filmmaking experiences. Here we have the antithesis of the cliched shallow, ego-stroking Hollywood autobiography, as the writer-director lays bare his flaws and failures alongside his hard-fought victories. But he has. Unable to add item to List. 9,50 €, 14,59 € Available. Editor.
Please try your request again later. Roger Spottiswoode’s Under Fire, mentioned by Stone as a film made with a similar theme. Weight: 675 g Even Oscar-winning ones get hot for five minutes and then it’s on to the next one down. Bravo.' 21,10 €, 8,69 € ... Sequel, please? Oliver, in honest and sometimes brutal fashion, lays it out-what it took for him to get to where he hoped to be-a successful writer/director working in Hollywood; the road it took is hard AF. And at this point, Stone decides he is going to make his independent films happen, and direct them, and get them distributed. It is easy to recall and contrast another helicopter accident, one that claimed actor Vic Morrow’s life along with two children. Cracking read, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2020. No one writes a Hollywood memoir with such candour as Oliver Stone. Excellent. Something went wrong. "One of the first basic lessons in filming," he writes, "is chasing the light. Chasing the Light says it all.' The amount of times Stone came close to giving up on film or was nearly bankrupt, or even close to death, and the landscape of cinema would be changed forever. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. OLIVER STONE is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of Platoon, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killer, Midnight Express, and many other films. I would love to read the second part if it were published in the future. {"bd_js_shop":"Shop","bd_js_too_long_for_shipping_label":"Sorry, that's too long for our shipping labels","bd_js_too_long":"Sorry, that's too long","bd_js_could_not_find_address_try_again":"Sorry, we couldn't find the address. Then he wishes he were dead. Stone rattles cages.
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