Alienated from his family and from American society, a troubled young man abandons his parents and his education to embark on a hellish odyssey of self-discovery that takes him into a nightmare world of bars, psychedelic drugs, the merchant marines, and madness

A Child's Night Dream

Literature & Fiction

STONE, OLIVER

United States

St.Martin's Press

Now in paperback, the controversial, best-selling novel by the most controversial filmmaker of our time.

A Child's Night Dream: A Novel

<div>An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken&nbsp;Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films asPlatoon,Midnight Express, andScarface. Before the international success ofPlatoonin 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while&nbsp;driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone's scripts forScarface,Platoon, andBorn on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature,The Hand(starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels forScarface; his stormy relationship withThe Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisiveSalvador;&nbsp;and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film,Midnight Express. Chasing the Light is a true insider's look at Hollywood's years of upheaval in the 1970s and '80s.</div>

Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Mariner Books

An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Oliver Stone\nBefore moving to Los Angeles and the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while working odd jobs in Manhattan. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the highs and lows: meetings with Al Pacino over Stone’s early scripts; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction; the failure of his first feature; his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; and much more. Chasing the Light is a true insider’s guide to Hollywood’s razor-edged years of upheaval in the 1970s and ’80s with untold stories of decade-defining films from the man behind the camera.

Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game

Provides the screenplays to Oliver Stone's movies about a young soldier's experiences in Vietnam and an alcoholic reporter covering the violence in El Salvador

Platoon & Salvador, No. V629

Humor & Entertainment

Vintage

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. (the screenplay) special issue for sight and sound

Nixon

Movies

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Featuring annotations and commentary by Stone himself, the screenplay of the controversial director's new motion picture Nixon is accompanied by essays by officials of the Nixon Administration and photographs from the film. Original. Movie tie-in.

Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film

Hyperion

Written and directed by three-time Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone, "Heaven and Earth" is a major motion picture from Warner Bros, scheduled for release in January 1994. Inspired bv the autobiographical books of Le Ly Hayslip, the film is the epic story of a remarkable Vietnamese woman, her family, and a country torn apart by the ravages of war. This book contains a narrative based on the screenplay, 120 photographs, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie. A contribution by D Le Ly Hayslip, movingily recounts the experience of having one's past rebuilt and re-enacted.

The Making of Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth

Singer, Michael

Hayslip, Le Ly

Le, Thi Hiep

Tuttle Pub

An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone's scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express. Chasing the Light is a true insider's look at Hollywood's years of upheaval in the 1970s and '80s.

Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game: Library Edition

Houghton/Mifflin

The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history. “At last the world knows America as the savior of the world!”—Woodrow Wilson The notion of American exceptionalism, dating back to John Winthrop’s 1630 sermon aboard the Arbella, still warps Americans’ understanding of their nation’s role in the world. Most are loathe to admit that the United States has any imperial pretensions. But history tells a different story as filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick reveal in this riveting account of the rise and decline of the American empire. Aided by the latest archival findings and recently declassified documents and building on the research of the world’s best scholars, Stone and Kuznick construct an often shocking but meticulously documented “People’s History of the American Empire” that offers startling context to the Bush-Cheney policies that put us at war in two Muslim countries and show us why the Obama administration has had such a difficult time cleaving a new path. Stone and Kuznick will introduce readers to a pantheon of heroes and villains as they show not only how far the United States has drifted from its democratic traditions, but the powerful forces that have struggled to get us back on track. The authors reveal that: · The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were militarily unnecessary and morally indefensible. · The United States, not the Soviet Union, bore the lion’s share of responsibility for perpetuating the Cold War. · The U.S. love affair with right-wing dictators has gone as far as overthrowing elected leaders, arming and training murderous military officers, and forcing millions of people into poverty. · U.S.-funded Islamist fundamentalists, who fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, have blown back to threaten the interests of the U.S. and its allies. · U.S. presidents, especially in wartime, have frequently trampled on the constitution and international law. · The United States has brandished nuclear threats repeatedly and come terrifyingly close to nuclear war. American leaders often believe they are unbound by history, yet Stone and Kuznick argue that we must face our troubling history honestly and forthrightly in order to set a new course for the twenty-first century. Their conclusions will challenge even experts, but there is one question only readers can answer: Is it too late for America to change?

The Untold History of the United States

History

Kuznick, Peter

Americas

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