There is a reason why we all dream of films.
The filmmakers, the actors, the singers, the models and the writers are in the field of reality a little more polite, a little more cinematographic and beautiful, than it is really. The fact that, behind the scenes, they are just as imperfect as the rest of us (if not more! The artistic temperament is a very real thing) makes all history on the way the sausage is transformed into something that is, At the very least, distracting.
To their best, the stories behind the scenes illuminate both artists and the public, explaining how the work is gathering and what about this work and people who have made him keep pierced.
One of my goals for my new novel, Talentshould have readers as if they were really there because the reward season takes place. In my professional life, I cover Hollywood, including the Oscar race, as a journalist; This fictitious price competition is based on what I have witnessed in my work line, but is also fueled by passion and drama that accompany people wherever they go. These books make a similar thing – shed light on the type of temperament it takes to make art, and the pressures that artists are confronted when they try to express something authentic.
Dad By Emma CLINE
The collection of La Nouvelle de Cline goes well in the subject, while keeping, throughout, its cool-to-to-to-to-touch approach to human relationships and its tendency to center female characters somewhat offset. But it is “The Nanny” who lands like a bomb in the middle of the book. The story presents a woman endured with a tabloid scandal, the one who had been employed as Baby-sitter for the family of a famous actor who found herself rooted in her marriage during a long shoot, and must then live in the following day. This author tends to write characters who derive in life; The addition of the tractor beam charism of a celebrity in the mixture is an ingenious destabilizing element.
The Vanity Fair Diaries By Tina Brown
As a editor -in -chief who made Vanity Fair a real Bible in Politics and Cinema Stars, Tina Brown led culture in the 1980s and 1990s. And her retrospective newspaper on affairs of liaison with celebrities of celebrities All bands is such a delicious reading experience as we could hope for. His sick memories of his current flirt with Warren Beatty – with his reason being to make him accept to sit for a cover story, and with his intriguing unknowable – is, alone, is worth the price.
Hearing by Katie Kitamura
This future novel takes the art and alchemy of acting seriously. Kitamura’s protagonist, an actress repeating for a demanding role in a room, finds herself in what seems to be a fantastic version of her own life, the one who demands that she also begins to play in her disabled hours. What does it mean to live in theater, and what lines should an artist trace between his work and his life? Kitamura does not find an answer, but the question intrigues.
Monster: Living on the big screen by John Gregory Dunne
With his wife, Joan Didion, Dunne had a lucrative touch line as a screenwriter. But like this non-fiction account of a long attempt to carry out a project, money may not be worth the hassles. In the smallest detail, Dunne anatomis the process by which a film planned for a real journalist who died tragically has become the romantic and sunny romantic comedy by Michelle Pfeiffer “Close and Personal”. Dunne’s headache makes the pleasure of readers: this is an analyzed and fun analysis of the number of screenwriters of competing pressures for major studios facing if they try to do anything without a classic Hollywood end .
Mike Nichols: a life by Mark Harris
The largest Hollywood biography of recent years has followed a prolific director through a long and varied career. Mike Nichols has become important as a filmmaker with Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? And The graduate and continued to do Worker,, CloserAnd Charlie Wilson’s war. Curiously, there was a signature or a fundamental style. He was sufficiently competent and committed to allow his career to continue, and he spent his life wearing a wig and false eyebrows (a side effect of childhood medical treatment), which left him fundamentally linked To foreign characters, if they were a young university alum without drift in southern California or secretary of Staten Island in search of more. Harris brings together a fantastic set of interviewees to make the life of Nichols and work in a story which, itself, could make a great film.
The last dream By Pedro Almodóvar
Almodóvar is one of the determining directors of world cinema, and his personal writing collection also represents that he will manage to write his autobiography. The concerns and the particular obsessions that cross his work, from the life of her mother to religious faith to passion and sexuality (represented in a case in a story of parable on a vampire in a Catholic monastery), are written here ; A story even represents the genesis of the idea of the great film of piety and revenge by Almodóvar, Bad education.
Swing time by Zadie Smith
Tracey is a prodigy of dance, a girl whose feet seem to move in perfect rhythm, whatever the song. But it is our narrator, a relatively without talent dancer, who finds himself at the heart of the entertainment industry, working as a personal assistant for a pop star named Aimee. (Take a suspicion of Kylie, a large spoon of Madonna, and perhaps Mariah, mix everything together …) “Swing Time” is shaggy and cowardly, and perhaps not the strongest novel by Smith, but its representation of the vanity of celebrities – culminating in an act of selfishness was masked as a benevolence during one of the travels of Aimee to West Africa – is written with a Sharp pen.
Upside down Half Moore
Moore’s memories have probably been the most accomplished for some time – thanks in part to the work of the New York writer Ariel Levy on the manuscript, but also to the will of Moore to dive deeply in his work and his life and to Reflect on what all of this meant. For a large part of his career, Moore was treated more as an object than as an artist (a state of cases which fortunately concluded with the release of The substanceA film that makes explicit comments on how our culture chews actresses). After having moved away from the spotlight, Moore found himself again the subject of the tabloid exam during his marriage and the divorce of Ashton Kutcher. Her reflections on the experience, on the trauma and dependence that haunted her beginning of a career, and on what the celebrity of the film meant for her doing a moving and haunting reading.
Speedwell by Mary Gaitskill
Gaitskill’s masterpiece changes between a sinister and unhappy gift and a sparkling past, while protagonist Alison thinks about her old and stingy life of top model. The fashion world is drawn with Stiletto Precision as a collection of users, tremors, and worse, with Alison herself the queen of ego monsters. The whole story is told with the dark moral clarity of a fairy tale by Grimm Brothers, with the redemption of Alison coming from her reflection on her friendship with the Veronica with a pure heart, a person who gave him life to life His appreciation of beauty. There can of course be no art without an audience, something that Alison disdained, years after her beauty has faded, realizes too late.