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John Woo: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) Paperback – September 15, 2005

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Director John Woo (b. 1946) reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for Asian filmmakers to the Western world. His hyper-violent, highly choreographed style made him a box office powerhouse, a respected auteur, and a revered figure among fellow directors.

First discovered by Western audiences through his Hong Kong films The Killer and Hard Boiled, Woo introduced the world to a new brand of psychologically frenzied action film. After coming to the United States in the early 1990s, Woo produced a trilogy of hard-charging action films--Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission: Impossible II--that were both popular and critically acclaimed. But Woo's signature bullet ballets, his kinetic, blood-spattered action sequences, represent a dichotomy in the director's philosophy. John Woo: Interviews reveals a peace-loving, devoutly religious man at odds with his reputation as the master of cinematic violence.

Unprecedented access to the director helped editor Robert K. Elder create in John Woo: Interviews the first authoritative English-language chronicle of Woo's career.

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September 15, 2005
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The first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the Asian director of Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission Impossible II

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of Mississippi (September 15, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1578067766
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1578067763
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches

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Robert K. Elder is a tech and media executive, founder of Odd Hours Media and the author or editor of 12 books, including "Last Words of the Executed" and "Hidden Hemingway."
Pulitzer-winner Studs Terkel calls Elder "a journalist in the noblest tradition" in his introduction to Elder's book, "Last Words of the Executed."
"Dead Man Walking" author Sister Helen Prejean called it, "a dangerous book." "Last Words of the Executed" received rave reviews in The Economist, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Review of Books, among many other outlets. The New Yorker called it, "...A harrowing portrait of our justice system."
Praise for his 2013 book, "The Best Film You've Never Seen" came from critic Roger Ebert, who said, "How necessary this book is! And how well judged and written! Some of the best films ever made, as Elder proves, are lamentably all but unknown."
Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips called Elder's 2011 book "The Film That Changed My Life": "A great and provocative read...it's addictive." Film critic Leonard Maltin also said, "You'll have a hard time putting this book down."
Elder has deep roots in the digital media and innovation spaces, having served as the Executive Director of Digital Product Development & Innovation for Crain Communications and Vice President of Content for Sun-Times Media Local. He has been a mentor at startup incubators such as 1871 Chicago and Northwestern University’s The Garage.
Elder’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon.com and many other publications. Elder has held leadership positions at Blockchain News, AOL Huffington Post Media Group’s Patch.com and the Chicago Sun-Times. For almost a decade, Elder served as a staff writer at the Chicago Tribune.
A former member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, Elder has taught film classes at Facets Film School. He has taught journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School and Columbia College.
A Montana native and graduate of the University of Oregon, Elder lives and writes in Chicagoland.
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D. Greenstein

Straight from the maestros mouth

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2020

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I've been a huge fan of Mr. Woo ever since I was a teenager.

I remember the first time I saw "The Killer" or "A Better Tomorrow". I've never seen anything like it, my mind was blown.

His movies changed action cinema forever. You would not have "The Matrix" or "John Wick" without John Woo.
This specific series of books is just amazing. It's like sitting with your favorite directors and listening to their own words as they discuss their world view and approach to movie making. This one is no exception. Really worth getting your hands on if you are a fan.

The only sad part is that it doesn't continue to more current times. I'd be so curious to hear what Mr. Woo thinks about the current state of HK cinema.

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D. Mok

Illuminating, in-depth, and best of all, engaging.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2005

Forget Christopher Heard's pathetic, hackneyed, dull mockery of a biography, Ten Thousand Bullets. John Woo: Interviews is the best book on John Woo currently on the market. Michael Bliss' Between the Bullets has some interesting insights, but it was a collection of film essays, which focus more on academic, sociological and ideological interpretations of Woo's films rather than an aim at biographical detailing.

John Woo: Interviews succeeds very well at portraying the shy, serious director by meticulous editing, mostly letting Woo's own syntax and verbal mannerisms come through with minimal tampering, and the interviews themselves delve into Woo's troubled relationship with Tsui Hark, his work with both Hong Kong and American film crews, his childhood in Hong Kong, and of course his quartet of Hong Kong classics: A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Bullet in the Head, and Hard-Boiled. My

favourite interviews are the ones with Hard Target director of photography Russell Carpenter, who goes into the nitty-gritties of working with such a visually meticulous director, and an extremely illuminating portion where Woo dissects the unique qualities of his various leading men -- Chow Yun-fat, John Travolta, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Nicolas Cage, and Tom Cruise.

The editing is smartly done, making the interviews flow into an easy read, and each interview is documented so that we have some context for interpretation. I've been reading up on Woo for quite awhile, but I'd say this is the single most comprehensive, multi-angled and absorbing source of John Woo material yet. A great read for fans of Asian cinema, and filmmakers will especially find this book an invaluable source of information for Woo's unique cinematic magic.

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Tizio Roger

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Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on June 21, 2020

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De bonnes questions dans les interviews ...très intéressant

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