Cameron Crowe

The long awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe one of America s most iconic journalists and filmmakers revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith s Just Kids If you ve seen Almost Famous you may think you know this story but you don t His clarity of observation and memory his choice words his people Cameron Crowe wonderfully continues to serve us WES ANDERSONCameron Crowe was an unlikely rock and roll insider Born in 1957 to parents who strictly banned the genre from their house he dove headfirst into the world of music By the time he graduated high school at fifteen Crowe was contributing to Rolling Stone His parents became believers uneasily allowing him to interview and tour with legends like Led Zeppelin Lynyrd Skynyrd Bob Dylan Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Fleetwood Mac Crowe spends his teens politely turning down the drugs and turning on his tape recorder He talks his journalism teacher into giving him class credit for his road trip covering Led Zeppelin s 1975 tour He earns the trust of icons like Gregg Allman and Joni Mitchell who had sworn to never again speak to Rolling Stone He embeds with David Bowie as the sequestered genius trans

Fra le molte ragioni della fama di Billy Wilder, una era l'assenza di cautele diplomatiche, qualita decisamente rara in un ambiente votato, come Hollywood, alla consacrazione delle apparenze. La conferma arriva da questa lunga intervista con il collega Cameron Crowe, nel corso della quale Wilder apre i suoi archivi: fotografie in gran parte inedite, giudizi letali, persino consigli a chi e nuovo nel mestiere. Nel corso del racconto parecchi idoli vengono infranti, alcuni sipari strappati, ma l'inspiegabile malia del cinema ne esce intatta.

En Conversaciones con Billy Wilder el legendario director acceda por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. En sus páginas, el nonagenario maestro habla con Cameron Crowe de su experiencia en el mismo corazon de Hollywood, asi como sobre guiones, fotografia y escenografia, sus colegas y sus peliculas, y el cine de hoy.

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Croweone of Americas most iconic journalists and filmmakersrevealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smiths Just Kids. If youve seen Almost Famous, you may think you know this story, but you dont. Cameron has written a book that feels like music, an intimate souvenir, like a song you cant stop listening to STEVIE NICKS If youre a lover of music, or youve ever been in love, then you have something to say. Cameron has always been someone who knows just how to say it HARRY STYLESLyrical and compulsively readable GUARDIAN Cameron Crowe was an unlikely rock and roll insider. Born in 1957 to parents who strictly banned the genre from their house, he dove headfirst into the world of music. By the time he graduated high school at fifteen, Crowe was already contributing to Rolling Stone magazine. With his parents uneasily convinced, he went on to interview and tour with icons like Led Zeppelin; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Bob Dylan; Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young; and Fleetwood Mac. Crowe spends his teens politely turning down the drugs and turning on his tape recorder. He talks his journalism teacher into giving him class credit for his road trip covering Led Zeppelins 1975 tour, which lands him and the band on the cover of Rolling Stone. He hunkers down with David Bowie as the sequestered genius transforms himself into a new persona: The Thin White Duke. Why did they give him such unprecedented access? Because youre young enough to be honest, Bowie tells him. At its heart, The Uncool is a surprisingly intimate family drama that charts the path that leads Crowe to writing and directing some of the most beloved films of the past forty years. Its a touching and joyful dispatch from a lost world, a chronicle of the real-life events that became Almost Famous and a coming-of-age journey filled with music legends as youve never seen them before. His clarity of observation and memory, his choice words, his people Cameron Crowe, wonderfully, continues to serve us WES ANDERSON Crowe comes across as the ideal scholar of modern adolescence [He] asks us to let all years be formative. If he advocates any stance, it is something like a chosen naivety, a rejection of the steadiness age offers in order to risk pain for feeling NEW STATESMAN A winning blend of family portrait, rock history, and coming-of-age movies KIRKUS REVIEWS Full of charm and lyricism GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIRS OF 2025

En "Conversaciones con Billy Wilder" el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla de su experiencia en el mismo corazon de Hollywood, asi como sobre guiones, fotografia y escenografia, sus colegas y sus peliculas, y el cine de hoy. En este largo coloquio de director a director -similar al sostenido por Truffaut y el maestro del suspense en "El cine segun Hitchcock"- conocemos como fue la colaboracion de Wilder con estrellas de la talla de Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich o Charles Laughton, entre muchos otros, y nos asomamos a las curiosas y divertidas historias ocurridas entre bastidores durante el rodaje de "Perdicion", "Berlin Occidente", "El crepusculo de los dioses", "El gran carnaval", "Traidor en el infierno", "Sabrina", "La tentacion vive arriba", "Ariane", "Testigo de cargo", "Con faldas y a lo loco" o "El apartamento".

En “Conversaciones con Billy Wilder” el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla d

En "Conversaciones con Billy Wilder" el legendario director, ya nonagenario, accedió por primera vez a hablar extensamente sobre su vida y obra. Entrevistado por Cameron Crowe, en sus páginas habla de su experiencia en el mismo corazon de Hollywood, asi como sobre guiones, fotografia y escenografia, sus colegas y sus peliculas, y el cine de hoy. En este largo coloquio de director a director -similar al sostenido por Truffaut y el maestro del suspense en "El cine segun Hitchcock"- conocemos como fue la colaboracion de Wilder con estrellas de la talla de Audrey Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich o Charles Laughton, entre muchos otros, y nos asomamos a las curiosas y divertidas historias ocurridas entre bastidores durante el rodaje de "Perdicion", "Berlin Occidente", "El crepusculo de los dioses", "El gran carnaval", "Traidor en el infierno", "Sabrina", "La tentacion vive arriba", "Ariane", "Testigo de cargo", "Con faldas y a lo loco" o "El apartamento".