DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval by X Various Authors

DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval by X Various Authors

Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City.

Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West.

Contents:

A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin
A Life excerpt - Elia Kazan
The Celluloid Brassière - Andy Logan
Rainy Day - Lillian Ross
The Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina Telaroli
The Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis Borges
Ace in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly Haskell
What Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael Koresky
One False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-Bose
Maigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges Simenon
Sunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara Smith
The Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent Jones
Bad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada
Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin Collins
Black Desert, White Desert - Serge Toubiana
Marilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas Mekas
Beyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein
Coming: Nashville - Pauline Kael
Coming Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller Seitz
Selections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob Balaban
Introduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François Truffaut
By The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora Siemsen
My Guy - Hilton Als
Wild to the Wild - Sam Shepard

Wes Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His films include Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. His latest film is Asteroid City. Jacob "Jake" Perlin is a film programmer, distributor and publisher. He is the founding Artistic Director of Metrograph. His companies, The Film Desk and Film Desk Books, recently released Vengeance is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984) and No Fear No Die (Claire Denis, 1990), and new editions of Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel and Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau. Perlin also oversees Cinema Conservancy, a non-profit whose most recent release is James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973). He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and received a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his "Indispensable contributions to fi lm culture."

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ISBN 13	9781805330516
ISBN 10	1805330519
Title	DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval
Author	X Various Authors
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2023-06-22
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.