Cameron Crowe

Billy Wilder

Written in a question-and-answer format, this remarkable interview with the legendary Hollywood writer-director shares his thoughts on screenwriting, cinematography, the studio system, the Golden Age of film, and the many stars with whom he worked. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Conversations with Wilder

Fast Times M P

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.

Almost Famous

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.

The Uncool

Describes life inside an American high school, with observations based on the author's experience as an undercover high-school senior in a California public school

A True Story

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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 contributing to Rolling Stone. The Uncool offers a front-row ticket to the 1970s, a golden era for music and art when rock was young. It's also a surprisingly intimate family drama. This memoir is an essential read for music lovers or anyone chasing their wildest dreams. At the end of that roller-coaster journey, you might just find what you were looking for: Your place in the world.

A Memoir

Jerry Ziesmer

Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, working on countless films before his retirement in the middle-nineties. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors, and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood including his work on the sets of Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, and Jerry Maguire. Written with the craft and humor that made Jerry Ziesmer one of the most sought-after assistant directors in Hollywood, this book will be a treasure for students and fans of twentieth-century Hollywood.

Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe

Jeff Walker

Kim Gottlieb-Walker

"’Reggae got soul,’ Toots Hibbert sang in one of his best-known songs, and Kim Gottlieb-Walker's remarkable photographs coax that soul out of shadow and light. Her images from Jamaica capture the rough environment that shaped and challenged these artists, and the unquenchable joy that filled their music. They're the next-best thing to listening.” — Richard Cromelin During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is now widely recognized as the Golden Age of reggae. Over two years of historic trips to Jamaica and exclusive meetings in Los Angeles, Kim took iconic photographs of the artists who would go on to define the genre and captivate a generation. Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae features candid and intimate photographs of all of the musicians, artists and producers who brought the reggae sound to the international stage, including Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Toots Hibbert, Burning Spear, Jacob Miller, Third World, Lee “Scratch” Perry and, of course, Bob Marley. Kim’s photographs include never-before-seen performance shots, candid behind-the-scenes footage of Bob’s home in Jamaica, and exclusive records of key moments in reggae history, such as Bob’s first US television appearance, the historical Dream Concert with Stevie Wonder in Jamaica, and Bob meeting George Harrison backstage at the Roxy in 1975. Acclaimed rock journalist and director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) introduces this volume with a rousing foreword describing the time he accompanied Jeff and Kim to Jamaica to witness the burgeoning music scene there. Reggae historian Roger Steffens writes lucidly about the significance of those early years in reggae, and describes the pivotal moments documented in Kim’s photographs, many of which have not been seen in over 30 years, and many more of which have never been released to the public. Intimate and revealing, Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae is a rare and beautiful record of one of the most exciting moments in music history, told through the photographs of a true artist.

Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae

Mark Wilkerson

Dave Abbruzzese

Jonathan Cohen (muzyka)

Bartosz Donarski

Pearl Jam Twenty

Hugues Barrière

Charlotte Blum

Publié pour les célébrations du 20ème anniversaire du groupe Pearl Jam et simultanément au documentaire du même nom réalisé par Cameron Crowe, Pearl Jam 20 est l’autoportrait intime, inédit et très abondamment illustré d’un des groupes de rock le plus influents et les plus couronnés de succès de ces 20 dernières années. En 1991, le premier album de Pearl Jam, Ten, a catapulté ce groupe de Seattle au sommet de la renommée. Puis, le groupe a soudainement fui toute communication (clips, interviews...) et, malgré un succès critique et commercial jamais démenti (60 millions d’albums vendus dans le monde), l’on ne sait pas grand-chose aujourd’hui de leurs habitudes de travail, de leurs influences ou leur histoire, la chronique de 20 ans de collaboration et de rock’n’roll, remplie d’anecdotes inédites, de photos personnelles du groupe, de documents d’archive rares et de dessins. Élaboré par Jonathan Cohen et Mark Wilkerson à partir des mots des musicien eux-mêmes, préfacé par Cameron Crowe, Pearl Jam 20 est un livre unique qui explore en profondeur la carrière exemplaire d’un des groupes phare de l’histoire du rock, contemporain de Nirvana auquel on les compare souvent (originaire de Seattle !) et dirigé par le très charismatique Eddie Vedder, à l’abondante carrière solo.

Pearl Jam twenty

Matt Damon stars in this feelgood family feature based on the memoir by Benjamin Mee. Newly widowed Benjamin (Damon) is finding life difficult trying to raise his two young children. Urged on by his father, Duncan (Thomas Haden Church), to start over, Benjamin decides to purchase a rundown zoo in the countryside in the hope that it will bring his family together again. Having to care for 47 species, and with his friends thinking he's mad, Benjamin sets out to restore the zoo to its former glory with the help of a small but loyal.

We Bought a Zoo

Un autre dimanche, un mois plus tard. Le livre est terminé. La saison du base-ball a repris. J'appelle Wilder chez lui. Quand il me répond, j'entends sa radio qui diffuse le match à plein volume. "Qui est à l'appareil ?" demande-t-il. Je le lui dis. "Qui ?" Je dis mon nom un peu plus fort. "Qui est-ce ?" Maintenant je hurle. "Ne quittez pas", dit-il avec entrain. Il va baisser la radio à l'autre bout de la pièce. Pendant un moment, je n'entends que le bruit de sa canne frappant le sol. Il reprend l'appareil. "Excusez-moi pour le retard. Qui est à l'appareil ?" Je le lui dis à nouveau. Il est heureux de m'entendre, dit-il, et content du match des Dodgers aussi. Son ton est extrêmement chaleureux. A l'époque de nos premières conversations, Wilder avait demandé s'il pourrait vérifier ses propos plus tard. Ignorant si cette requête est toujours valable, je lui propose de relire tout le manuscrit. Billy Wilder refuse immédiatement. Après toutes nos discussions sur tous ces films aux intrigues finement agencées, sur les personnages et les comédiens, après les explications de circonstances importantes ou mineures, les détails d'une vie bien remplie, et ses refus insistants d'accorder à tout cela une importance exagérée, il me laisse avec précisément ce qu'il a laissé au monde: un sens de l'humour doux-amer et très authentique. La Wilder touch. "Non, répond-il aimablement. Je ne veux pas relire." Une pause. "Comme ça, je pourrai toujours dire : "C'est n'importe quoi, ce truc !"" [Extrait.] Réalisateur de Boulevard du Crépuscule, Certains l'aiment chaud, Sept ans de réflexion ou La Garçonnière, mais aussi de La Scandaleuse de Berlin, Assurance sur la mort ou La Vie privée de Sherlock Holmes, Billy Wilder était un personnage incomparable, en plus d'un inoubliable cinéaste. En 1995, Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Presque célèbre, Vanilla Sky) lui propose de le rencontrer devant un magnétophone. D'abord réticent, Wilder finit par accepter. Le résultat, ce sont ces extraordinaires Conversations avec Billy Wilder, où un homme au soir de sa vie donne un témoignage unique, attachant et drôle sur une existence passionnante qui l'a mené d'Autriche, où il est né en 1906, à Sunset Boulevard, où il laissa une empreinte indélébile. Enfin traduit en français, ce livre, qui évoque tout à la fois le Berlin des années vingt, avec Freud et Lubitsch, et le Hollywood des années cinquante, avec Marilyn Monroe et Jack Lemmon, résonne d'un écho qui est celui du XXe siècle et vient prouver que la voix des artistes est irremplaçable.

Conversations avec Billy Wilder

Pearl Jam

Published to commemorate the influential band's twentieth anniversary, an illustrated portrait covers their achievements while sharing reproductions of rare archival memorabilia, personal photos, and tour notes.

Cameron Crowe

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