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Book review: Forty-something years in Hollywood laid bare in this fascinating tell-all
Filmmaker Edward Zwick tells all about difficult actors, the tyrannical inclinations of the director and the magic of the movies in a frank memoir
If mistakes“ are the portals of discovery”, a filmmaker’s memoir should be a litany of failures. With all its moving parts, filmmaking, as this brilliant memoir attests, is an endeavour beset with pitfalls and happy accidents. Indeed, any eventual success is founded on necessary failures.
Happily, filmmaker Edward Zwick understood the assignment: his memoir is teeming with missteps and self-deprecation while also being honest about hard-won artistic growth. The fact that it is well-paced and ...
