DONALD CAMMELL
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1903254299 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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He completed only three more feature films before his 1996 suicide. This is the first book about the extraordinary, decadent life and enigmatic creative works of Donald Cammell (1934-1996) whose first film became a classic. Yet this elusiveness elevated Cammell into myth and inspired a generation of young filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Roger Avary and Todd Haynes. This biography offers: * rare stills * previously unpublished personal photographs * images from his early career as a portrait painter * a filmography * unrealized and uncompleted projects, and screenplays * dozens of interviews. Although it immediately launched Cammell into the international limelight, his career proved elusive. Innovative and provocative, Performance brought a new sensibility to mo
a fine book on an enigma I've been waiting a long time for this book. Performance, the film Cammell wrote and co-directed with Nicolas Roeg, is an actual artistic act of magical transformation, and a masterpiece. But the last 25 years of Cammell's life have been a mystery overshadowed by his 1996 suicide. Here at last is a comprehensive, almost scholarly examination of the man and his career, in great detail and with a fine feel for the times (like Marianne Faithfull's comment that compared to Cammell . "Why, you all work for me !" according to Joan. Overall one would have to say the Umlands' did an excellent job on a difficult subject though I'm not sure about " Anita Pallenberg & Michelle Breton " being world famous actresses -ever. Cammell died around the corner and up the street from me my first year in Los Angeles and having grown up on a lot of British Auteurism in Dublin in the late Seventies & Early Eighties it struck me as profoundly sad that he had somehow managed to come unstuck in the hills & canyons of Hollywoo. Needle through the Cammell's Eye Donald Cammell has intrigued me for many years, since first I read the item in VARIETY that told us that the British born writer/director who had helped to make PERFORMANCE was next going to be making ISHTAR with Dominique Sanda, Marlon Brando and William Burroughs. When ISHTAR failed to materialize that was the beginning of many years of Hollywood hardship for the increasingly difficult and willful Cammell, and the Uhlands spell it all out in a long slow drop to the very botto
of Nebraska. . Rebecca Umland has spoken and published internationally on modern cultural topics. She is a professor of English and Film Studies at the U
. of Nebraska. She is a professor of English and Film Studies at the U. About the Author Rebecca Umland has spoken and published internationally on modern cultural topics