Cameron Crowe

En “Conversaciones con Billy Wilder” el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla d

The long awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe one of America s most iconic journalists and filmmakers revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith s Just Kids If you ve seen Almost Famous you may think you know this story but you don t His clarity of observation and memory his choice words his people Cameron Crowe wonderfully continues to serve us WES ANDERSONCameron Crowe was an unlikely rock and roll insider Born in 1957 to parents who strictly banned the genre from their house he dove headfirst into the world of music By the time he graduated high school at fifteen Crowe was contributing to Rolling Stone His parents became believers uneasily allowing him to interview and tour with legends like Led Zeppelin Lynyrd Skynyrd Bob Dylan Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Fleetwood Mac Crowe spends his teens politely turning down the drugs and turning on his tape recorder He talks his journalism teacher into giving him class credit for his road trip covering Led Zeppelin s 1975 tour He earns the trust of icons like Gregg Allman and Joni Mitchell who had sworn to never again speak to Rolling Stone He embeds with David Bowie as the sequestered genius trans

Fra le molte ragioni della fama di Billy Wilder, una era l'assenza di cautele diplomatiche, qualita decisamente rara in un ambiente votato, come Hollywood, alla consacrazione delle apparenze. La conferma arriva da questa lunga intervista con il collega Cameron Crowe, nel corso della quale Wilder apre i suoi archivi: fotografie in gran parte inedite, giudizi letali, persino consigli a chi e nuovo nel mestiere. Nel corso del racconto parecchi idoli vengono infranti, alcuni sipari strappati, ma l'inspiegabile malia del cinema ne esce intatta.

En Conversaciones con Billy Wilder el legendario director acceda por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. En sus páginas, el nonagenario maestro habla con Cameron Crowe de su experiencia en el mismo corazon de Hollywood, asi como sobre guiones, fotografia y escenografia, sus colegas y sus peliculas, y el cine de hoy.

En "Conversaciones con Billy Wilder" el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla de su experiencia en el mismo corazon de Hollywood, asi como sobre guiones, fotografia y escenografia, sus colegas y sus peliculas, y el cine de hoy. En este largo coloquio de director a director -similar al sostenido por Truffaut y el maestro del suspense en "El cine segun Hitchcock"- conocemos como fue la colaboracion de Wilder con estrellas de la talla de Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich o Charles Laughton, entre muchos otros, y nos asomamos a las curiosas y divertidas historias ocurridas entre bastidores durante el rodaje de "Perdicion", "Berlin Occidente", "El crepusculo de los dioses", "El gran carnaval", "Traidor en el infierno", "Sabrina", "La tentacion vive arriba", "Ariane", "Testigo de cargo", "Con faldas y a lo loco" o "El apartamento".