FilmWeek for November 6, 2009
Larry Mantle and film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor and Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for amazon.com discuss several of the week’s new releases including Disney’s A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare At Goats, The Box, Precious, The Fourth Kind, The Yes Men Fix The World, Turning Green, The Wedding Song, Died Young Stayed Pretty, and Araya.
Why do we need another book on Elizabeth Taylor? Author William Mann says that Taylor created the culture of celebrity that we have today and that everyone from Madonna to Britney to Miley Cyrus has taken a page from her book. In his new biography of the famed film star, Mann reveals how Liz Taylor “did it,” how her on-and off-screen passions ignited the sexual revolution and how she helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career.
Houghton Mifflin
William Mann's biography explores Elizabeth Taylor's life and celebrity.
Guests:
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for Amazon.com
William Mann, author of “How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood” (Houghton Mifflin)
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Vilmos Zsigmond's work on McCabe and Mrs. Miller (w/ Robert Altman) must be mentioned given that that the centrality of the cinematography to telling that story reperesents a classic example of "showing" vs "Telling" the audience the story.