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A real treasure!!! Wonderful book.
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2016
I'd been waiting for a long time for a book like this to come out. I have more than a dozen books written about Oliver Stone and none of them compares to this magnificent work. I bought the hard cover edition in Strand in New York and the Kindle edition from Amazon. Yes, I bought it again so i could carry it everywhere. That's how good it is. It's one of the best in my collection (I have the Making of Space Odyssey - taschen limited edition (1000 copies), Kubrick's Napoleon book and others of that caliber. This one's placed among them. Oliver Stone is one of the great American directors of his generation, but his films go beyond the medium. He has re-written history and changed the way many Americans (and foreigners) understand the nation and its government. He makes us look at the side of many things through all the different layers. His movies (and interviews) help us understand the world through a multidimensional perspective. Complex Topics like war, power, polítics, mass media, the CIA, youth culture, patriotism and a long list of controversial subjects. Matt Zoller did an AMAZING work here. His book "TV- the book" is also a very very good. Looking forward to his next projects.
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2016
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A real treasure!!! Wonderful book.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2016
I'd been waiting for a long time for a book like this to come out. I have more than a dozen books written about Oliver Stone and none of them compares to this magnificent work. I bought the hard cover edition in Strand in New York and the Kindle edition from Amazon. Yes, I bought it again so i could carry it everywhere. That's how good it is. It's one of the best in my collection (I have the Making of Space Odyssey - taschen limited edition (1000 copies), Kubrick's Napoleon book and others of that caliber. This one's placed among them. Oliver Stone is one of the great American directors of his generation, but his films go beyond the medium. He has re-written history and changed the way many Americans (and foreigners) understand the nation and its government. He makes us look at the side of many things through all the different layers. His movies (and interviews) help us understand the world through a multidimensional perspective. Complex Topics like war, power, polítics, mass media, the CIA, youth culture, patriotism and a long list of controversial subjects. Matt Zoller did an AMAZING work here. His book "TV- the book" is also a very very good. Looking forward to his next projects.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2016
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Scriptwriter
A long-form conversation, with great production material
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 26, 2021
Scriptwriter
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 26, 2021
The book is laid out as a conversation, with questions and answers, intercut with extended essays, excerpts of scripts, photo montages. Seitz does ask difficult questions but rarely pushes Stone too hard on them. As ever, Stone is frank with his answers and quite own about his successes and failures.
Perhaps the greatest compliment I can pay to author Matt Seitz, is that The Oliver Stone Experience makes me want to go back and revisit and reappraise some of Stone's films that I had considered his least successful: Heaven & Earth, World Trade Centre and Alexander - and to view them through the lens of what Stone was attempting to achieve with them.
If you've read James Riordan's biography, Stone, or read Stone's autobiography, Chasing the Light, or indeed watched any of the documentaries on Stone's films, you're not going to learn an awful lot from this book. What you do get, instead, is indeed something of an experience - the A to Z of Oliver Stone films, as personally narrated by the filmaker himself. For that alone (along with some great photographs and production material), I'd recommend this book. Be warned, though, that it is oversize (see photo) and may not sit comfortably on your book shelf!
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elliewithabass
excellent quality.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 18, 2017
Carlos Tello de Meneses
A great work of film criticism of a great filmmaker
Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on February 3, 2019
