Sonny Boy
- Auteur: Al Pacino (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir, filmboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 384 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Al Pacino Sonny Boy recensie, review en informatie
- “As Michael in The Godfather, Pacino was everything I wanted that character to be on screen. I couldn’t believe it. It was, in my eyes, a perfect performance, a work of art.” (Mario Puzzo, writer of The Godfather)
- “Charming, hilarious, a nonstop talker. There is an aspect of him that is like a lost orphan, like this kind of crazy idiot savant.” (Diane Keaton, Amerikaanse actrice)
Flaptekst van de memoir van Al Pacino
To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova.
He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies?The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon?that were not just successes, but landmarks in the history of film. In reality, Pacino was in his mid-thirties by then, and had already lived several lives.
Growing up in New York City’s South Bronx and raised by a loving but mentally unwell mother, Pacino worked odd jobs to support himself. But, in good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.
Exploring his iconic roles, essential collaborations, and important relationships, as well as the ever-present struggle between creativity and commerce, Sonny Boy is the revelatory account of an incredible life.
This is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide.
Actor and director Al Pacino (25 April 1945, New York City) is a unique and enduring figure in the world of American stage and film. He grew up in New York City’s South Bronx, attended the School of Performing Art, and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton and the Actors Studio with mentor Lee Strasberg.
He has been nominated for the Academy Award nine times, for movies including The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and The Irishman, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 for Scent of a Woman. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award nineteen times, and won four, and has been nominated for three Tonys and won two.
Pacino has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the National Merit of Arts from President Obama, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.