Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black book cover with white text and photographs of heads. Text is written skewed and haphazardly all over the cover. Front side: Candid Interviews with Film’s / Foremost Directors and Critics; REEL CONVERSATIONS; George Hickenlooper. Spine: REEL CONVERSATIONS; George / Hickenlooper; Citadel / Press. On back side, upper right: A Citadel Press Book/Carol Publishing Group $12.95; 25 DIRECTORS AND CRITICS LET IT ROLL / “What’s important is to go / back to film and create your / own little universe there, like / some folk artist.” / Martin Scorsese; “Every time I review a / Friday the 13th movie / I sell tickets, because / the worse I say it is the / more its audience is going to think they’ll like it.” / Roger Ebert; Peter Bogdanovich / John Carpenter / Michael Cimino / Francis Coppola / Constantin Costa-Gavras / David Cronenberg / Roger Ebert / Stephen Frears / Dennis Hopper / Annette Insdorf / Stanley Kramer / Barry Levinson / David Lynch / Louis Malle / John Milius / George Romero / Ken Russell / Andrew Sarris / John Sayles / Richard Schickel / Martin Scorsese / Oliver Stone / Paul Verhoeven / Wim Wenders / Robert Wise; “I keep telling my / editors, if you win an / award for editing, I / won’t work with you / anymore. Your / editing shows.” / Louis Malle; “The idea of having / gynecology in a film / really sets a lot / of people on edge.” / David Cronenberg; Astonishing, / the things these movie / luminaries have to say to / filmmaker-director George / Hickenlooper in Reel Conversations. / In this landmark collection of interviews, twenty-one leading directors / and four major critics talk freely about every topic under the klieg / lights: actors, studios, personal influences, growing up, psychotherapy, / politics, tastes, new Hollywood, B-movies, European films, reviews, / suicide, film theory, agents, and anything and everything / that illuminates their work, vision, and success. / compelling, smart, casual, and entertaining, these / dialogues capture the diverse and often/ surprising views as well as / distinct personalities of / today’s cinematic / leaders. Lower left, SKU bar.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Paula Scher, American, b. 1948
- Date
- 1991
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 23 x 32.8 cm (9 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
