Woody Allen: A Retrospective - Hardcover

Tom Shone

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500517983 ISBN 13: 9780500517987

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Woody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic comedies to introspective character studies and crime thrillers. Classics such as Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Broadway Danny Rose and Hannah and Her Sisters still resonate, and more recently Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine have been notable successes. In this timely retrospective, Tom Shone reviews Woody Allen's entire career, providing incisive commentary on his films and shedding light on this uniquely self-deprecating filmmaker, with the help of comments contributed by Allen himself. Superbly illustrated with more than 250 key images, this is a fitting tribute to one of the masters of modern cinema, published to mark Woody Allen's eightieth birthday.

'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' Woody Allen

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Review:

An extraordinary career is celebrated with behind-the-scenes shots and informative prose. --The Times

A series of intelligently constructed essays. --Independent on Sunday

Shone's analysis is most piercing ... [his] prose has a beauty of its own, abounding in nonchalantly exquisite turns of phrase. --The Observer

Erudite. --Spectator

A luxuriant photo-history. --Prospect

About the Author:

Tom Shone was the film critic of The Sunday Times from 1994 until 1999, when he moved to New York. His articles have appeared in many newspapers and periodicals, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Intelligent Life, Areté and Vogue.
He is the author of 'Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer', 'In the Rooms' and 'Scorsese: A Retrospective', the last also published
by Thames & Hudson. He currently teaches film history and criticism at New York University.

Praise for Tom Shone:
'Is there anyone now writing about movies better than Tom Shone? I think not' - John Heilemann, New York magazine

'Shone is admired on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer with a deep love of the movies and one of the sharpest voices in arts journalism... Witty and wise, all the way from Spielberg to Linklater' - Tim de Lisle, Intelligent Life

'The world's finest film critic' - The Toronto Star

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0500517983
• ISBN 13: 9780500517987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288