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.

Conversations with Wilder

Biographies & Memoirs

Crowe, Cameron

Arts & Literature

KNOPF

Now available, the screenplay to the hit film in which, as Newsweek noted, "Cameron Crowe captures the venal high-stakes world of pro sports with deadly wit, and an ex-journalist's sense of detail. He fills every scene with a vivid, funny, richly specific sense of character and an adult understanding of how hard a transaction love can be." Also included in this volume are Crowe's entertaining and insightful account of the making of the film as well as Jerry Maguire's twenty-two page Mission Statement, referred to throughout the film and penned prior to production by Crowe.

Jerry Maguire

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Faber&Faber

Conversations With Billy Wilder

The renowned director talks to Cameron Crowe about 30 years at the very heart of Hollywood. Wilder's distinct voice provides a fascinating insider's view of the film industry past and present.

The screenplay of the brilliant new film about rock 'n' roll journalism, from the writer/director of Jerry Maguire. Inspired by his own start in journalism as a teenage reporter for Rolling Stone, Cameron Crowe has created a coming-of-age story that is both funny and moving-and laced with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Set in 1973 and starring Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, and Noah Taylor, Crowe's new film tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy whose dream of becoming a rock journalist comes true when Rolling Stone sends him on tour with the up-and-coming rock band Stillwater-loosely based on Led Zeppelin-over the objections of his protective mother. Crowe brings the same wry humor he brought to Jerry Maguire as well as the brilliant evocations of teen life that animated his earlier cult film Fast Times at Ridgemont High to chronicle and celebrate a pivotal moment in rock history-and one teenage boy's place in it.

Almost Famous

From the Academy Award-winning writer-director of Almost Famous, the script for one of the year's most eagerly anticipated films. In Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise stars as David, a young New York City publishing magnate who finds himself on an unexpected roller-coaster ride of romance, comedy, suspicion, sex, and dreams in what turns out to be a mind-bending search for his soul. Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, and Cameron Diaz also star in this haunting investigation of beauty, love, and betrayal, which is bound to become one of the most talked about films of 2001.

Vanilla Sky

The screenplay to the latest film from the Oscar-winning writer/ director of Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) was the wunderkind of Mercury Shoes: the hot industrial designer who'd dreamed up the powerhouse athletic-wear company's next revolutionary shoe concept-the Spasmotica-upon which Mercury's hopes of global domination were pinned. That is until eight years of development--including a research and promotion outlay equal to the operating costs of a small nation--went up in smoke as the extensively hyped and highly anticipated Spasmotica premiered to colossal failure. Suddenly the laughingstock of the industry, dumped by his boss and his girl, things can't seem to get worse--until Drew gets word of his father's death. With his mother grief-stricken and his sister needed by her side, Drew must travel to his father's provincial hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, to attend the memorial on his family's behalf. On the flight, Drew meets Claire (Kirsten Dunst), a witty and charming flight attendant, who helps him navigate the rough waters ahead and proves that even in our darkest hour love and redemption are never out of reach.

Elizabethtown

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fireside

Pearl Jam - twenty

Cohen, Jonathan

Wilkerson, Mark

AUTOUR DU LIVRE

En "Conversaciones con Billy Wilder" el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla de su experiencia en el mismo corazón de Hollywood, así como sobre guiones, fotografía y escenografía, sus colegas y sus películas, y el cine de hoy. En este largo coloquio de director a director -similar al sostenido por Truffaut y el maestro del suspense en "El cine según Hitchcock"- conocemos cómo fue la colaboración de Wilder con estrellas de la talla de Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich o Charles Laughton, entre muchos otros, y nos asomamos a las curiosas y divertidas historias ocurridas entre bastidores durante el rodaje de "Perdición", "Berlín Occidente", "El crepúsculo de los dioses", "El gran carnaval", "Traidor en el infierno", "Sabrina", "La tentación vive arriba", "Ariane", "Testigo de cargo", "Con faldas y a lo loco" o "El apartamento".

Conversaciones con Billy Wilder (Spanish Edition)

Alianza Editorial

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Conversations with Wilder

Conversations with Wilder

Jerry Maguire

Conversations With Billy Wilder

Almost Famous

Vanilla Sky

Elizabethtown

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Pearl Jam - twenty

Conversaciones con Billy Wilder (Spanish Edition)