A SPLURCH IN THE KISSER - The Movies of
Author(s): WASSON SAM
This title offers a detailed and hilarious look at the art and life of a legendary Hollywood filmmaker. 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. In films like "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Days of Wine and Roses", "Victor/Victoria", "10", and even "The Pink Panther", we can hear him off-screen, laughing in the dark. Employing keen visual analysis, meticulous research, and troves of interviews and production files, Sam Wasson delivers the first complete account of one of the maddest figures Hollywood has ever known.
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"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"
General Fields
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- : University Press of New England
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.708
- : 14 August 2009
- : 229mm X 152mm X 31mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 360
- : sp
- : Hardback
- : WASSON SAM
