Pre-Owned The Oliver Stone Experience (Hardcover) 1419717901 9781419717901

Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective--an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form. Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone ( Midnight Express , Scarface , Platoon , JFK , Natural Born Killers , Snowden ) and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz ( The Wes Anderson Collection ) discussed, debated, and deconstructed the arc of Stone's outspoken, controversial life and career with extraordinary candor. This book collects those conversations for the first time , including anecdotes about Stone's childhood, Vietnam, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Their dialogue is illustrated by hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and documents from Stone's personal archive , dating back to Stone's birth: personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, behind-the-scenes photography, and production files from all of his films to date --through 2016's Snowden , and including Stone's epic Showtime mini-series Untold HIstory of the United States . Critical commentary from Seitz on each of Stone's films is joined by original essays from filmmaker Ramin Bahrani; writer, editor, and educator Kiese Laymon; writer and actor Jim Beaver; and film critics Walter Chaw, Michael Guarnieri, Kim Morgan, and Alissa Wilkinson . At once a complex analysis of a master director's vision and a painfully honest critical biography in widescreen technicolor, The Oliver Stone Experience is as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone's films --it's an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, in the form of a book. Both this book and Stone's highly anticipated film, Snowden , will be released in September 2016 to coincide with Stone's seventieth birthday (September 15, 1946). Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: Mad Men Carousel , The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads , The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel , and The Wes Anderson Collection . Contributors: Kiese Laymon, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Ramin Bahrani