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<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. Their dialogue is illustrated by <b>hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and documents from Stone's personal archive</b>, dating back to Stone's birth: personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, behind-the-scenes photography, and <b>production files from all of his films to date</b>—through 2016's <i>Snowden</i>, and including Stone's epic Showtime mini-series <i>Untold HIstory of the United States</i>. 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>,