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Author |
: Zach Schonfeld |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2023-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197556375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019755637X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Coppola Became Cage by : Zach Schonfeld
"How Coppola Became Cage chronicles Nicolas Cage's early career and rise to fame, examining the formative performances that made him an icon of independent cinema in the 1980s and early 1990s. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews with Cage's collaborators-including filmmakers David Lynch, John Patrick Shanley, Mike Figgis, Martha Coolidge, and Amy Heckerling-this book offers a revealing portrait of Cage's origin story as a member of the Coppola family, his early roles in low-budget teen films, and his rise to stardom with memorable performances in cult films like Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, and Wild at Heart. The book examines how Cage drew on influences as eclectic as silent cinema and German Expressionism while displaying an intense commitment to his performances both on- and off-screen. The book demystifies the actor's onscreen eccentricities and argues that his commercial failures are as interesting as his successes. How Coppola Became Cage meticulously traces Cage's career from 1981, when he was a young drama student at Beverly Hills High, to 1995, when he gave an Oscar-winning performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas."--
Author |
: Keith Phipps |
Publisher |
: Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2022-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250773036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250773032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Age of Cage by : Keith Phipps
An NPR "Books We Love" 2022 “Age of Cage might be the closest we will get to understanding the singular beauty of each of Nic Cage’s always electric performances. You are holding the Rosetta Stone for Cage. Enjoy it.” —Paul Scheer, actor, writer and host of the How Did This Get Made? and Unspooled podcasts Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius. Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at him, there's no denying two things: you’ve seen one of his many films, and you certainly know his name. But who is he, really, and why has his career endured for over forty years, with more than a hundred films, and birthed a million memes? Age of Cage is a smart, beguiling book about the films of Nicolas Cage and the actor himself, as well as a sharp-eyed examination of the changes that have taken place in Hollywood over the course of his career. Critic and journalist Keith Phipps draws a portrait of the enigmatic icon by looking at—what else?—Cage’s expansive filmography. As Phipps delights in charting Cage’s films, Age of Cage also chronicles the transformation of film, as Cage’s journey takes him through the world of 1980s comedies (Valley Girl, Peggy Sue Got Married, Moonstruck), to the indie films and blockbuster juggernauts of the 1990s (Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off, Con Air), through the wild and unpredictable video-on-demand world of today. Sweeping in scope and intimate in its profile of a fiercely passionate artist, Age of Cage is, like the man himself, surprising, insightful, funny, and one of a kind. So, snap out of it, and enjoy this appreciation of Nicolas Cage, national treasure.
Author |
: Michael Schumacher |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 536 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0747546789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780747546788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Francis Ford Coppola by : Michael Schumacher
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: A FILM-MAKERS LIFE is the first complete picture of the flawed cinematic genius who directed the GODFATHER trilogy, APOCALYPSE NOW, THE CONVERSATION, and other distinctive films - some wildly successful, some disastrous.
Author |
: Ian Markham-Smith |
Publisher |
: Blake Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105110933871 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nicolas Cage by : Ian Markham-Smith
Since his Oscar-winning performance inLeaving Las Vegas, Nicholas Cage has become one of the most high-profile stars of contemporary cinema. Yet despite all the media attention, Cage remains one of Hollywood’s most inscrutable stars; in fact, his real life is as curious as some of the characters he plays. This new book follows the actor’s life and appraises his career, including his roles in cult movies likeRaising ArizonaandWild at Heart,his oddball leading-man parts in films likeMoonstruck,and his incarnation as action hero inCon AirandFace/Off.Complete with photos and a filmography, this is a must-read for Nicolas Cage’s many fans.
Author |
: Gilad James, PhD |
Publisher |
: Gilad James Mystery School |
Total Pages |
: 69 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9785879339208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 5879339203 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Nicolas Cage by : Gilad James, PhD
Nicolas Cage is an American actor, director, and producer who has been a prominent figure in Hollywood for over three decades. Born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California in 1964, Cage is the nephew of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Cage began his acting career in the early 1980s and quickly gained critical acclaim for his performances in films such as "Raising Arizona" (1987), "Moonstruck" (1987), and "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Over the years, Cage has established himself as one of the most versatile actors in the industry, with a range of roles spanning from action movies like "Con Air" (1997) and "National Treasure" (2004) to dramas like "The Weather Man" (2005) and "Joe" (2013). Although Cage's career has seen its ups and downs, he has remained a beloved and iconic figure among audiences. With over 100 acting credits to his name, Cage continues to work on a variety of film projects and is considered one of the most unique and intriguing performers of his generation.
Author |
: Gene D. Phillips |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 574 |
Release |
: 2014-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813146720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813146720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Godfather by : Gene D. Phillips
This critical biography by the acclaimed film historian is “certainly the definitive work on the director” behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now (Publishers Weekly). Gene Phillips blends biography, studio history, and film criticism to complete the most comprehensive work on Coppola ever written. The force behind such popular and critically acclaimed films as Rumble Fish and the Godfather trilogy, Coppola has imprinted his distinct style on each of his movies and on the landscape of American popular culture. In Godfather, Phillips argues that Coppola has repeatedly bucked the Hollywood "factory system" in an attempt to create distinct films that reflect his own artistic vision—often to the detriment of his career and finances. Phillips conducted interviews with the director and his colleagues and examined Coppola's production journals and screenplays. Phillips also reviewed rare copies of Coppola's student films, his early excursions into soft-core pornography, and his less celebrated productions such as One from the Heart and Tucker: The Man and His Dream. The result is the definitive assessment of one of Hollywood's most enduring and misunderstood mavericks.
Author |
: Corinne J. Naden |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1590181360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781590181362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nicolas Cage by : Corinne J. Naden
Presents the life and career of the movie actor who was born Nicolas Kim Coppola.
Author |
: Charlie Kaufman |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 721 |
Release |
: 2021-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399589690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399589694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Antkind by : Charlie Kaufman
The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit."—The Washington Post “An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good [book].”—The New York Times Book Review • “Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN’S HEALTH B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider—a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made—a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete—B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that’s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself—the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.
Author |
: Francis Ford Coppola |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 786 |
Release |
: 2016-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781942872313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1942872313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Godfather Notebook by : Francis Ford Coppola
THE PUBLISHING SENSATION OF THE YEAR FOR EVERY FILM FAN The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola’s notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behind one of the world’s most iconic films. The most important unpublished work on one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather, written before filming, by the man who wrote and directed it—Francis Ford Coppola, then only thirty-two years old—reveals the intense creative process that went into making this seminal film. With his meticulous notes and impressions of Mario Puzo’s novel, the notebook was referred to by Coppola daily on set while he directed the movie. The Godfather Notebook pulls back the curtain on the legendary filmmaker and the film that launched his illustrious career. Complete with an introduction by Francis Ford Coppola and exclusive photographs from on and off the set, this is a unique, beautiful, and faithful reproduction of Coppola’s original notebook. This publication will change the way the world views the iconic film—and the process of filmmaking at large. A must-have book of the season. Nothing like it has ever been published before
Author |
: Matt Green |
Publisher |
: Matt Green |
Total Pages |
: 19 |
Release |
: 2017-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Nicolas Cage - Famous Actors by : Matt Green
Ever wondered how Nicolas Cage rose to stardom? American actor Nicolas Cage comes from Hollywood royalty. He has continually endeavored to make a name for him grounded on his effort, rather than on his ancestry. As the nephew of movie-maker Francis Ford Coppola, Cage changed his latter name to avoid allegations of favoritism. He selected Cage both out of approval for modern musician John Cage and as reverence to witty book hero Luke Cage. Even if he had engaged the household name, it isn't likely that anyone would consider Cage holding debauched to his uncle's good deeds. Frequently, Cage trips to great distances to add trustworthiness to his characters. He is a movie-maker and director; he has done leading roles in an assortment of movies, stretching from quixotic amusements and plays to science fiction and deed movies. Cage is a Christian and he was upraised as a Catholic.