In Conversations with Wilder , Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old ic...
In Conversations with Wilder , Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood, and about screenwriting and camera work, set design and stars, his peers and their movies, the studio system and films today. In his distinct voice we hear Wilder's inside view on his collaborations with such stars as Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo (he was a writer at MGM during the making of Ninotchka . Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign Affair, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Love in the Afternoon, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment , and Ace in the Hole , among many others. Wilder is ever mysterious, but Crowe gets him to speak candidly on Stanwyck: "She knew the script, everybody's lines, never a fault, never a mistake"; on Cary Grant: "I had Cary Grant in mind for four of my pictures . . . slipped through my net every time"; on the "Lubitsch Touch": "It was the elegant use of the super-joke." Wilder also remembers his early years in Vienna, working as a journalist in Berlin, rooming with Peter Lorre at the Chateau Marmont -- always with the same dry wit, tough-minded romanticism, and elegance that are the hallmarks of Wilder's films. This book is a classic of Hollywood history and lore.
卡梅伦·克罗 作者
hieenohdon
复旦大学出版社2013版
Josee
中信出版集团2022版
杨飞飞er
中信出版集团2022版
书巫（小舟）
复旦大学出版社2013版
彼得格利特
复旦大学出版社2013版
0 有用 Fluffy 2023-01-05 21:59:02 荷兰
原本读的是中信的中文版，突发奇想开始读英文版，尽管读的慢多了，但还是庆幸没有错过不少精彩的影片照片。这是我的第一本关于电影的书籍，相比于之前半途而废的林奇的自传，讨论怀尔德的作品是扑面而来的熟悉感。我相信是作者的真诚使我们能看到一个不一样的怀尔德：他一直以来的toughness还有令人上瘾的幽默，还有作为一个年迈之人无法逃离的突来的伤感和脆弱。看到最后的电影列表，其拍摄时间和我观影时间的想象差很多... 原本读的是中信的中文版，突发奇想开始读英文版，尽管读的慢多了，但还是庆幸没有错过不少精彩的影片照片。这是我的第一本关于电影的书籍，相比于之前半途而废的林奇的自传，讨论怀尔德的作品是扑面而来的熟悉感。我相信是作者的真诚使我们能看到一个不一样的怀尔德：他一直以来的toughness还有令人上瘾的幽默，还有作为一个年迈之人无法逃离的突来的伤感和脆弱。看到最后的电影列表，其拍摄时间和我观影时间的想象差很多，也许是因为怀尔德无视genre和“随心所欲”（是天赋）的原因。看到他最后自己提出的结局和Audrey的Martini recipe，哭笑不得，但也很感慨，这样lively的人物就是怀尔德最伟大的作品吧。很感谢这两年怀尔德的电影的陪伴，和这本书开启的新的一年，黑色幽默已经深入骨髓且欲罢不能。 (展开)