Ed Zwick Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de memoir van de Amerikaanse filmregisseur. Op 25 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Gallery Books het boek met herinneringen van Ed Zwick de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige filmregisseur en producent. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Ed Zwick Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions recensie, review en informatie
- “Ed Zwick is a great storyteller, and Hits, Flops and Other Illusions is a terrific trifecta. It’s a true memoir, filled with people we all want to know more about. It’s personal and funny, charting a career of clear and definitive twists and turns. AND, as a bonus, it’s full of do’s and don’ts for filmmakers. I inhaled it. It made me think, like a book about a creative life should. It’s the best kind of book. Even though the motherfucker never hired me!” (Jamie Lee Curtis)
- “Irresistible … A fantastically entertaining memoir that shows the movie business in high definition. It is part how-to guide, peppered with frank lists that crunch hard-won advice into easily digestible bites, and will be useful for young film-makers – but the layperson will inhale it for the gossip and what it reveals about the frankly bewildering systems of power that prop up the entertainment business.” (The Guardian)
- “A combination instruction manual, reminiscence and festival of name-dropping, Zwick’s memoir captures the interminable delays between inception and production (on those occasions when production even happens); the egos stroked and dreams dashed; and the exhilaration that accompanies the miracle of a project that somehow, through a combination of persistence and good luck, reaches its fruition and lives up to its potential … For a book that doesn’t exist for the purpose of serving up zingers or exacting vengeance, Hits manages to deliver a tasty supply of both.” (Los Angeles Times)
- “The author warns early on that he’ll be dropping names, and he certainly does … Not everyone is remembered so fondly, but the author on the whole comes off as humble about his success and charmingly self-deprecating … [a] heartfelt memoir in movies and more.” (The Wall Street Journal)
Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
- Auteur: Ed Zwick (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir, filmboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Gallery Books
- Verschijnt: 25 februari 2025
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 19,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de memoir van filmregisseur Ed Zwick
“I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and saints.”
He has encountered these Hollywood types during four decades of directing, producing, and writing projects that have collectively received eighteen Academy Award nominations (seven wins) and sixty-seven Emmy nominations (twenty-two wins). Though there are many factors behind such success, including luck and the contributions of his creative partner Marshall Herskovitz, he’s known to have a special talent for bringing out the best in the people he’s worked with, notably the actors. In those intense collaborations, he seeks to discover the small pieces of connective tissue, vulnerability, and fellowship that can help an actor realize their character in full.
Talents whom he spotted early include Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Claire Danes, and Jared Leto. Established stars he worked closely with include Leonardo DiCaprio, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Daniel Craig, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Jennifer Connelly. He also sued Harvey Weinstein over the production of Shakespeare in Love—and won. He shares personal stories about all these people, and more.
Written mostly with love, sometimes with rue, this memoir “is not just a wonderfully intimate memoir. It’s also an indispensable guide to the shark-infested waters of artistic integrity” (Cameron Crowe). Destined to become a new Hollywood classic, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions is “a must-read for any film fan, and a sacred text for any aspiring filmmakers out there” (Forbes).
Ed Zwick was born 8 october 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. He is an Academy Award– and Emmy Award–winning director, writer, and producer of film and television. A graduate of Harvard and the AFI Conservatory, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Liberty Godshall. He directed well known pictures like Glory (1989), The Last Samurai (2006), Blood Diamond (2006) and Trial by Fire (2018).
