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Woody Allen: A Retrospective is the first complete, film-by-film overview of Woody Allen's entire career, up to and including the 2015 release of Irrational Man. In this illustrated biography, renowned movie critic Tom Shone traces Allen’s entire professional life as an entertainer and director, weaving in archival and original interviews, as well as more than 250 curated photographs, movie stills, and posters. From slapstick films to romantic comedies to introspective character studies and crime thrillers, Allen’s output has always been prodigious; with nearly 50 movies to his credit, he’s made more or less a film a year since the early 1970s. This fitting tribute to one of the masters of modern cinema covers all of those films, including contemporary classics such as Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris, with wit and insight. This is the definitive illustrated monograph on one of the major writer-directors of modern cinema, celebrating Allen’s fifty-year career and published to mark Woody Allen's eightieth birthday. With the help of comments contributed by Allen himself, Shone’s well-informed commentary makes this book an essential read for Woody Allen fans and film aficionados."I don't want to acheive immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." —Woody Allen
Woody Allen: A Retrospective, by Tom Shone- Amazon Sales Rank: #53349 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 12.00" h x 1.25" w x 10.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review “… Shone’s prose has a beauty of its own, abounding in nonchalantly exquisite turns of phrase: I especially love his description of actress Dianne Wiest’s face as “[seeming] always to photograph in soft focus”. Allen may not read criticism, but the writer in him would surely approve.’” (The Guardian)
About the Author Tom Shone is the film critic for the Guardian US and the Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine. He has written for Slate, the New Yorker, and the Sunday Times. He is the author of Blockbuster, In the Rooms, and Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective (Abrams, 2014). He currently teaches film history and criticism at NYU and lives in New York City. "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
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. An Excellent Coffee-Table Book By C J Singh .Reviewed by C. J. Singh (Berkeley, California).WOODY ALLEN: A RETROSPECTIVE is a profusely illustrated, coffee-table book. As a coffee-table book, it can be guaranteed to start conversations. I placed it on my coffee table and two of my guests who didn’t know each other, immediately began talking about Woody’s “Midnight in Paris,” which all three of us had seen.One of the guests liked the Hemingway scene as the best; the other preferred the T S Eliot scene. When asked, I said, "Pablo Picasso, the Gypsy visual artist. Did you notice how dark-skinned he was? Gypsies are an ethnic community originating from India.” The conversation shifted to other Woody Allen films that were precursors to “Midnight in Paris.” We looked up “Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Zelig,” and “Play It Again, Sam” and took turns reading aloud Tom Shone’s essays on these films. The reader of “Play It Again, Sam,” added that he recalled Quentin Tarantino acknowledging in an interview that in his film “True Romance” the character of Elvis Presley giving advice was inspired by the Humphrey Bogart character in Woody Allen’s “Play It Again, Sam.”Over the weekend, I read cover to cover Tom Shone’s highly engaging and learned more about Woody Allen’s films – especially the ones of his forty-five films I hadn’t seen. The book opens with Woody’s biography: “A creature of tidy habits and unerring routine, Woody Allen likes to rise at 6:30 a.m. He gets his children out to school, endures a brief spell on the treadmill, then sits down to write at his manual Olympia SM-3 typewriter which was bought when he was sixteen and still works” (page 6). “In 1952, during his last year at Mildwood High School, Woody Allen daily routine was as follows. He would get out of school at one o’clock, head straight for the subway station and catch the BMT train from Flatbush, in Brooklyn, over the Manhattan Bridge to Sixteenth street and Fifth Avenue, all the writing jokes with a pencil. It was always crowded and Allan would have to straphang, but he would scribble away, and by the time he got to Manhattan he’d have at least twenty-five jokes….For this he was paid $20 a week. ‘There’s nothing to it,’ he said. He was sixteen” (p. 15). Shone cites couple jokes: “The happiest man I know has a cigarette lighter and a wife – and they both work.” “Says Woody Allen: A hypocrite is a guy who writes a book on atheism, and prays it sells.” (p. 15).The biographical pages in Shone's book are few compared with the biographies by Eric Lax and by David Evanier. However, the few pages vividly describe the dismissive attitudes of Mel Brooks's toward Woody as "a red-haired rat" and of Les Gelbert's as Woody Allen "looked to be all of six years old…. His previous writing credit, I assumed must have been learning the alphabet. He seemed so fragile, a tadpole in horn rims" (pages 19-20). In contrast, it's refreshing to read the wonderfully supportive role of agents Jack Rollins and his partner Charles Joffe to help develop Woody Allen as a stand-up comedian. "Allen pleaded with them to let him quit: 'I'm not funny, I'm not a comic, I can't do this, I hate it' and Rollins would always quietly remonstrate with him, 'Give it a little time' … Allen almost quit five or six times" (p 21)I compared Shone’s analyses of Woody’s film “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” one of my favorites, with two other books: “Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Bjorkman” (published in 2004) and “Woody: The Biography” by David Evanier (published in 2015). Their analyses are considerably more detailed; Shone’s is compact and beautifully illustrated with color photos.As an up to date coffee-table book that includes brief essays on each of Allen's forty-five films including the most recent "Irrational Man," it merits five stars. Yeah, five shining stars for Mr Shine, oops, Mr. Shone.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. If you are buying one film book for Christmas, this is the one... By lloyd michaels Of the several new books about Woody Allem published within the past two years, including Jason Bailey's and Jason Solomons' somewhat similar film-by-film retrospectives, David Evanier's biography, and Bailey and Girgus's academic anthology, Tom Shone's gorgeously illustrated, lucidly written work is by far the best. In fact, it is the most widely informed, comprehensive and critical study of Woody Allen's remarkable career that has yet been published. (And believe me, I've read 'em all!). The photographs, half of which I had not seen before, are simply stunning; the interpretive insights (even when I disagreed with them) were uniformly thoughtful and brilliantly presented. Congratulations to the author.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. I thought overall this book was really great. By LM I thought overall this book was really great. Most large format books on Woody Allen stop after his late 80's stuff, so anyone with a love for his more recent films should definitely pick this up.This book doesn't get into as much detail as Douglas Brode's "Films of Woody Allen" so folks really interested should pick up at least the 1991 edition (all of the earlier editions are great too, for their covers alone).Some familiar movie stills (esp from AH, Interiors & Hannah) are in color which is refreshing to see. I'd give this 4.5 if I could because I wish things were a bit more in depth, with 45 films for material I would have liked to see movie posters, candid photos, inspiration etc. in that dept. this book does lack.
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