An array of New Yorkers become involved with a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn in an acclaimed short story, presented here along with interviews with the author and the film's actors and a description of the process of creating a film. Original. Movie tie-in.
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These two films present some unusual scenarios, providing storyteller protagonists who provide strong views of human behavior and who consider the meaning behind their lives and encounters. This is a fine example of how stories get translated to film, including insights on actor/director collaborations. -- Midwest Book Review
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Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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This review is from: Smoke and Blue in the Face (Paperback)
I bought this title as a long time fan of Auster and also of the two films. It is the first and only screenplay book I have bought as I find them generally redundant, always inferior to the film, and usually not very readable. Firstly, the screenplay, written by Auster is very readable as the film is mostly dialogue and as such flows nicely, even as a script, not bogged down with description of actions, or camera angles. If you are a fan of the film, there is little new here, though there are a few lines of dialogue that weren't in the final cut. The transcript of Blue in the Face is exactly what you see on screen as this film was mostly improvised. Auster also includes his lengthy notes to the actors about their scenes and this is enlightening as it shows which ideas made the film and which ones didn't, and of those that made it, which ones worked or not. There is also an in-depth interview with Auster about the two films which is very good indeed and is both informative and witty. Finally, there is the original short story "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" which was the original inspiration for "Smoke" If you've seen the film, you'll know the tale but it is great to see the original version in print, and interesting to see how it made the tarnsition to the screen. All in all a very worthwhile and highly readable collection.
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- Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations by Peter Brooker on 4 pages
- Lulu on the Bridge by Paul Auster on page 143, page 210, and page 211
- Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing (Postmodern Studies 33) by Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir on page 210, and Back Matter
- Screening Asian Americans by Peter X. Feng on page 197, and page 214
- The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis on page 277, and page 280
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