Looking for good biographies
06-14-05 | 12:11 AM
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Looking for good biographies
What's the best book on:
Orson Welles
Da Vinci
Picasso
Kurosawa
There were more I wanted, can't remember now. I'm also just generally searching for interesting people that I don't know enough about -- Important people over throughout history.
Orson Welles
Da Vinci
Picasso
Kurosawa
There were more I wanted, can't remember now. I'm also just generally searching for interesting people that I don't know enough about -- Important people over throughout history.
06-14-05 | 06:21 PM
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06-15-05 | 10:44 AM
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For books on Welles, you have plenty of choices. Speaking as a Welles partisan, the only ones I'd stay away from are Charles Higham's book and David Thomson's Rosebud, both of which have distinct axes to grind against Welles. Frank Brady's Citizen Welles is solid but older (1986), and Simon Callow's Road to Xanadu only goes up to Citizen Kane. Barbara Leaming's bio of Welles is fun but very superficial. And of course, there is This is Orson Welles, which strictly speaking isn't a biography but comes straght from the man himself (and Peter Bogdanovich).
The Emperor and the Wolf is an interesting read, though I can't imagine it's already out of print. There's no other bio of Kurosawa available at any rate, beyond his autobiography, which is worth reading despite it only going up to Rashomon or so.
The Emperor and the Wolf is an interesting read, though I can't imagine it's already out of print. There's no other bio of Kurosawa available at any rate, beyond his autobiography, which is worth reading despite it only going up to Rashomon or so.
