Author Description

<B>Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form.</B><BR /><BR /> Over the course of five years, <B>Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone </B>(<I>Midnight Express</I>, <I>Scarface</I>, <I>Platoon</I>, <I>JFK</I>, <I>Natural Born Killers</I>, <I>Snowden</I>) and <B><I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz</B> (<I>The Wes Anderson Collection</I>) discussed, debated, and deconstructed the arc of Stone's outspoken, controversial life and career with extraordinary candor. <B>This book collects those conversations for the first time</B>, including anecdotes about Stone's childhood, Vietnam, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Critical commentary from Seitz on each of Stone's films is joined by <B>original</B> <B>essays from filmmaker Ramin Bahrani; writer, editor, and educator Kiese Laymon; writer and actor Jim Beaver; and film critics Walter Chaw, Michael Guarnieri, Kim Morgan, and Alissa Wilkinson</B>. <BR /> At once a complex analysis of a master director’s vision and a painfully honest critical biography in widescreen technicolor, <B><I>The Oliver Stone Experience</I> is as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone’s films</B>—it's an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, in the form of a book.<BR /><BR /> Both this book and Stone’s highly anticipated film, <I>Snowden</I>, will be released in September 2016 to <B>coincide with Stone’s seventieth birthday</B> (September 15, 1946).<BR /><BR /> Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: <I>Mad Men Carousel</I>, <I>The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads</I>, <I>The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel</I><I>, and </I><I>The Wes Anderson Collection</I>.