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Original Title:	Conversations with Wilder
ISBN:	0375709673 (ISBN13: 9780375709678)
Edition Language:	English

Conversations with Wilder

Cameron Crowe

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 902 Users | 48 Reviews

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Title	:	Conversations with Wilder
Author	:	Cameron Crowe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	September 25th 2001 by Knopf (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Culture. Film. Nonfiction. Media Tie In. Biography

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In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.

Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood, and about screenwriting and camera work, set design and stars, his peers and their movies, the studio system and films today. In his distinct voice we hear Wilder's inside view on his collaborations with such stars as Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo (he was a writer at MGM during the making of Ninotchka. Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign Affair, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Love in the Afternoon, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, and Ace in the Hole, among many others. Wilder is ever mysterious, but Crowe gets him to speak candidly on Stanwyck: "She knew the script, everybody's lines, never a fault, never a mistake"; on Cary Grant: "I had Cary Grant in mind for four of my pictures . . . slipped through my net every time"; on the "Lubitsch Touch": "It was the elegant use of the super-joke." Wilder also remembers his early years in Vienna, working as a journalist in Berlin, rooming with Peter Lorre at the Chateau Marmont -- always with the same dry wit, tough-minded romanticism, and elegance that are the hallmarks of Wilder's films. This book is a classic of Hollywood history and lore.

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William Holden, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Sunset Boulevard,Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity... you know you love them all. Why not spend a couple evenings in the company of Billy Wilder and Cameron Crowe listening to great conversations about old Hollywood. Heavily illustrated with photos of the tinseltowns greatest stars, this book will have you updating your "must see" movies list and lingering on the TMC channel just a little longer...

I'm no fan of Cameron Crowe--his heavy-handed sentimental streak is on display here, too--but when the interviewee is Billy Wilder, what difference does it make?

Persistence gave us this book as Wilder was reluctant to do it. Excellent in very department: quality of the interviews and the total production.

Persistence gave us this book as Wilder was reluctant to do it. Excellent in very department: quality of the interviews and the total production.

My all-time favorite film director in lively, penetrating, often very funny conversations with Cameron Crowe. What's not to love?

Wilder is one of my top ten favorite directors, and this book essentially let me spent the afternoon in his company, hearing his opinions on more things than I would have ever thought to ask myself. The structure of the book is not perfect, and some serious editing should have been done on some descriptive passages and repetitions from Wilder. Nonetheless, if you're a fan of great cinema and writing/directing technique from a master, then this book comes highly recommended.