Juicy, informative and really, really dirty, this compulsively readable book tells the story of the generation of filmmakers who forever changed Hollywood in the 1970s. Just as the big studios seemed about to collapse under their own lumbering mediocrity, films like BONNIE & Clyde and EASY RIDER showed the industry that they’d been neglecting a lucrative market: young people. Featuring Coppola, Bogdanovich, DePalma. Awesome book.
Recommended by Zak
Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman present and sign Why We Broke Up
01/30/2012 7:00 pm
Location:
Street:
695 E. Colorado Blvd
City:
Pasadena
,
Province:
California
Postal Code:
91101
Country:
United States
Min Green is writing Ed Slaterton a letter, which accompanies a box. Inside the box are mementos of their relationship, a movie ticket from their first date, an old cookbook they bought together, a comb from a motel room they shared. Item by item, each illustrated and accounted for, this letter tells the story of how they got together and, ultimately, why they broke up. Daniel Handler’s (aka Lemony Snicket) pitch-perfect text and Maira Kalman’s evocative, rich artwork creates a magic that transforms a truly universal story and some benign objects — a folded-up note, bottle caps, a toy truck — into something much more: an unforgettable, funny, heart-wrenching, and ultimately hopeful love story.