《CONVERSATIONS WITH SCHLESINGER》是Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是Buruma, Ian Schlesinger, John。
基本介紹
- 中文名：CONVERSATIONS WITH SCHLESINGER
- 作者：Buruma、John、Ian Schlesinger
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- ISBN：9780375757631
內容簡介
“I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what’sbehind it.”
–John Schlesinger
The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinema’smost dynamic and influential artists. Now, in Conversations withJohn Schlesinger, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesinger’snephew, reveals the director’s private world in a series ofin-depth interviews conducted in the later years of the director’slife.
Here they discuss the impact of Schlesinger’s personal life on hisart. As his films so readily demonstrate, Schlesinger is awonderful storyteller, and he serves up fascinating and provocativerecollections of growing up in a Jewish family during World War II,his sexual coming-of-age as a gay man in conformist 1950s England,his emergence as an artist in the “Swinging 60s,” and theroller-coaster ride of his career as one of the most prominentHollywood directors of his time.
Schlesinger also discusses his artistic philosophy and approach tofilmmaking, recounting stories from the sets of his masterpieces,including Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday; Marathon Man; andThe Day of the Locust. He shares what it was like to direct suchstars as Dustin Hoffman, John Voight, Sean Penn, Madonna, and JulieChristie (whom Schlesinger is credited with discovering) and offershis thoughts on the fickle nature of fame and success inHollywood.
