The Oliver Stone Experience

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Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial author, director, and cinematic historian in interview form.

Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight ExpressScarfacePlatoonJFKNatural Born KillersSnowden) and New York Times bestselling creator Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Collection) discussed, debated, and deconstructed the arc of Stone’s outspoken, controversial life and career with strange candor. This book collects those conversations for the first time, including anecdotes about Stone’s childhood, Vietnam, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Their dialogue is illustrated by hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and documents from Stone’s personal archive, dating back to Stone’s birth: personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, in the back of-the-scenes photography, and production files from all of his films to date—through 2016’s Snowden, and including Stone’s epic Showtime mini-series Untold HIstory of the United States. Critical statement from Seitz on every of Stone’s films is joined by original essays from filmmaker Ramin Bahrani; author, editor, and educator Kiese Laymon; author and actor Jim Beaver; and film critics Walter Chaw, Michael Guarnieri, Kim Morgan, and Alissa Wilkinson

At once a complex analysis of a master director’s vision and a painfully honest critical biography in widescreen technicolor, The Oliver Stone Experience is as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone’s films—it is an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, in the type of a book.

Both this book and Stone’s highly anticipated film, Snowden, can be released in September 2016 to coincide with Stone’s seventieth birthday (September 15, 1946).

Also to be had from Matt Zoller Seitz: Mad Men CarouselThe Wes Anderson Collection: Bad DadsThe Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.

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