Woody Allen began his career writing jokes and scripts, then progressed to stand-up and acting, and finally wrote and directed his first film, "Take the Money and Run", in 1969. Like many of the early films that made him famous, this was a screwball comedy that starred Allen as a hapless and self-demeaning schlemiel who bumbles his way through preposterous and hilarious situations. His first serious recognition as a filmmaker came with the Oscar he was awarded for "Annie Hall" in 1977. Allen progressed from joke comedy to psychological comedy with films like Manhattan, Stardust Memories, and Hannah and Her Sisters that mine the deeper humor based on personality and show an artistic advance from the skit-like nature of his early works. Allen's work has also come to reveal the poignant emotional mix of tragicomedy in the charm and fantasy of "The Purple Rose of Cairo", the nostalgia of "Radio Days", the multiple plots of "Crimes and Misdemeanors", and the bittersweet tone of "Alice". The critical and commercial success of the recent "Match Point", a tense, unfunny psychological drama, is proof that Allen is not nearing retirement, nor through reinventing himself as a filmmaker. People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, Taschen shows you. "Movie Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life. All the icons in the second batch of the series were voted for by over 4500 Taschen readers in a special online poll!
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天呐,我刚读完一本关于某位特定电影制作人的书,简直是沉浸式的体验!这本书的装帧设计就非常吸引人,硬皮封面,那种略带复古的字体排版,让人一拿在手就有种庄重感。内容上,它似乎并没有完全聚焦于某一位导演的生平八卦,而是更侧重于探讨他作品中反复出现的主题,比如知识分子的焦虑、都市生活的疏离感,以及那种特有的、略带神经质的幽默。作者的分析角度非常细腻,他不仅仅是罗列电影情节,而是深入挖掘了那些隐藏在对话背后的哲学思辨。我特别喜欢其中关于“身份认同危机”的章节,分析得鞭辟入里,引用了大量早期作品的片段作为佐证,这对于我这种深度影迷来说,简直是宝藏。读完后,我立刻冲动地去重温了好几部他早期的黑白片,感觉视角完全不一样了,那些曾经模糊的潜台词一下子清晰可见。不过,书中对某些后期作品的评价似乎略显保守,但瑕不掩瑜,整体来说,这是一本值得所有严肃电影爱好者收藏的案头工具书,它提供了一个非常坚实的理论框架去理解这位独特创作者的艺术世界。
评分这本书的体例结构非常巧妙,它不是按时间线索推进,而是采用了“主题对谈”的方式进行编排。每一章都像是两个不同视角的人在围绕某一个电影母题展开辩论,比如“宿命论与自由意志”、“性吸引力与情感疏离”等,然后作者巧妙地将这位导演的电影作品植入到这些辩论的论据中。这种形式让阅读过程充满了智力上的乐趣,感觉自己也参与到了这场思想交锋之中。作者的文字驾驭能力一流,能够在一篇关于“梦境逻辑”的分析中,自然而然地切换到对某个具体场景的光影处理的讨论,过渡得天衣无缝。阅读过程仿佛在进行一场高强度的智力体操,需要读者高度集中注意力。这本书的深度绝对不是给那些只想轻松翻阅的读者准备的,它要求你带着笔记和思考去阅读,但一旦你跟上了作者的思路,你将获得对该电影人作品的全新、多维度的认知,那种被拓宽思维边界的感觉,是阅读体验中最宝贵的部分。
评分这本书给我最大的感受是“颠覆性”。我原本以为会读到一本标准的“大师崇拜”读物,结果完全出乎意料。作者似乎在竭力解构这位导演作品中的所有刻板印象,试图揭示那些被过度浪漫化叙事所掩盖的,关于创作焦虑和商业妥协的真实面貌。书中的语气非常大胆,甚至带有一丝挑战权威的意味,敢于直言某些被奉为经典的场景,实际上可能源于一次幸运的失误。这种批判性的视角,反而让我对这位创作者产生了更复杂、更人性化的理解。它不是让你爱上这个人,而是让你更清醒地看待他的“作品体系”。其中有一章专门探讨了这位导演如何应对时代思潮的变迁,以及他作品主题是如何在保守与前卫之间不断摇摆的,这部分的分析极其深刻,让人反思艺术的生命力究竟来源于对传统的坚守还是对禁忌的触碰。读完后,我需要时间消化这种略带“祛魅”后的真实感。
评分这本书的阅读体验,怎么说呢,像是一次漫长但充满惊喜的午后散步。它避开了那种教科书式的、流水账式的传记叙事,而是选择了以“城市景观”作为串联的线索。每一章都仿佛是带你穿梭于不同的历史时空背景下的纽约街头,或者某个欧洲古老小镇的咖啡馆。文字的节奏感把握得极好,时而像潺潺流水般舒缓,时而又因为突然插入的尖锐观察而让人猛地精神一振。我印象最深的是关于电影配乐和视觉风格并置的章节,作者敏锐地指出了声音设计如何反哺了人物的内在冲突,那种对细节的偏执关注,着实让我佩服。如果说有什么遗憾,或许是对女性角色的解读可以更具批判性,感觉略微偏向于对“缪斯”的浪漫化描绘,少了些许现代女性主义的审视。但即便如此,这本书依然成功地将一位电影人的作品提升到了文化符号的层面,读完后,你会觉得你对“谈话”本身的理解都加深了,因为他电影里的每一个字似乎都经过了精密的计算。
评分我最近读到的关于某位特定电影界人物的专著,这本书的切入点非常新颖,它完全绕开了对“天才”光环的过度神化,而是聚焦于其创作过程中的“幕后技术流”。比如,书中花了很大篇幅讨论了其标志性的长镜头调度是如何在后勤、灯光和演员调度上实现完美平衡的。这对我这种对电影制作工艺感兴趣的读者来说,简直是干货满满。它没有太多华丽的辞藻,语言风格非常务实、精准,读起来就像在阅读一份极其详尽的制作日志。作者似乎采访了许多曾经在片场工作过的技术人员,那些第一手的经验分享,比如关于某次关键场景的布景难度,或者某台老式摄影机的脾气,都让整本书的“质感”非常厚重。我甚至因此产生了一种冲动,想去学习一些老派的电影拍摄技术。唯一的不足可能是,对于不熟悉电影术语的普通读者来说,某些技术细节的描述可能略显晦涩,需要一定的背景知识才能完全领会其精妙之处。
评分Nothing special though but worth skipping...Woody is good looking!!! So does his stage photos
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评分Nothing special though but worth skipping...Woody is good looking!!! So does his stage photos
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