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| NOT QUITE A MEMOIR | Of Films, Books, the World
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| | Judy Stone, 500 pages, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2, illus., 1-879505-91-6,
$29.95 paper | |
Judy
Stone has the wit, the independence and the journalistic guts to call
the shots as she sees the. Her interviews are smashing in their
revelations."
- Studs Terkel
"Judy Stone's book has an amazing collection of characters. I wish I were one of them."
- Paul Newman, actor/director
"It's not just a book about movies, it's about Judy's warp-speed
curiosity with . . . almost everything! Judy is a power-pack of
intellectual energy in need of release. Not Quite a Memoir roams far
and wide - as Judy did in her 30 years at the San Francisco Chronicle.
And, as they say, it made me laugh . . . made me cry."
- Sid Gannis, Producer and President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
"Judy Stone knows about movies, she knows about politics, she knows about life."
Jules Feiffer, playwright/cartoonist
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Not Quite a Memoir is a unique collection of pieces about the
many filmmakers and writers from around the globe - Europe, the Americas,
Asia, the Middle East - who populate Judy Stone's world. In these
articles, we clearly hear their voices as they talk art, politics, and
culture. We get to see past the cinema screens and past the pages of
books and hear lively conversations about personal freedoms, political
change, nationalism, religion, women in society, gays in society, the
influence of history, ideas about creating a better tomorrow, and much
more.
In this book, Stone talks with and writes about more than 120
creative people who range from the pioneer Inuit filmmaker Zacharias
Kunuk to the great Polish poet/essayist Czeslaw Milosz; from the
innovative Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami to the writer/provocateur
Jean Genet; from the tantalizing Turkish storyteller Orhan Pamuk to the
underground Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. From Israeli Amos Gitai to
Palestinian Elia Suleiman, filmmakers whose films are devilish
irritants to their own tribes. From popular actors Jeremy Irons and
Sinead Cusack to actor/filmmaker Liev Schreiber. . . .
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| Judy Stone has been writing about
international cinema for the San
Francisco Chronicle and other publications,
including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Ramparts, for over forty years. She is also the author of Eye on the World: Conversations with International Filmmakers and The
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