Bøger af Matt Wolf

In a quest to protect the truth, the activist Marion Stokes recorded television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years on more than seventy thousand tapes. She started in 1979, during the Iran Hostage Crisis - now considered the birth of the twenty- four-hour news cycle - and ended on the day of her death, as news of the Sandy Hook Massacre first broke. In between she captured revolutions, catastrophes, talk shows, sitcoms, lies, triumphs, and commercials that tell us who we were and how television shaped our world today. Filmmaker Matt Wolf has compiled a sequence of images, culled from over seven hundred hours of Marion's tapes, that capture the texture of the past and express the subliminal power of televisual life.

Matt Wolf''s book chronicles ten amazing years for the Donmar and for Mendes combining accounts of numerous productions and extensive interviews with Mendes himself and more than sixty Donmar alumni: Sondheim Nicole Kidman Gwyneth Paltrow Alan Cumming Helen Mirren Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle to name but a few. This celebration of the Donmar''s tenth anniversary is full of candid conversation analyses of its successes as well as its failures and trenchant behind-the-scenes reporting. It is also the Donmar''s farewell to Sam Mendes who is leaving the theatre to pursue other opportunities on the stage and screen. As director of ÊAmerican BeautyÊ for which he won an Academy Award and ÊRoad to PerditionÊ his future is as bright as his past.