Two Weeks in the Midday Sun A Cannes Notebook |
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Author:
| Ebert, Roger |
Foreword by:
| Scorsese, Martin |
ISBN: | 978-0-226-31443-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Two Weeks in the Midday Sun records Ebert's impressions of the 1987 Cannes festival--"Disneyland for adults"--running through his two weeks of encounters with actors and directors, going to screenings, cafes, bars, restaurants, and parties in this marathon of over-stimulation. "If the Super Bowl were two weeks long," he writes, "that would be more like Cannes." Screenings start at 8:30 every morning, while the (third round of) parties started at midnight the...
More Description Two Weeks in the Midday Sun records Ebert's impressions of the 1987 Cannes festival--"Disneyland for adults"--running through his two weeks of encounters with actors and directors, going to screenings, cafes, bars, restaurants, and parties in this marathon of over-stimulation. "If the Super Bowl were two weeks long," he writes, "that would be more like Cannes." Screenings start at 8:30 every morning, while the (third round of) parties started at midnight the night before. "The only constant will be my battle with my computer. . . . If I am lucky, however, something extraordinary will happen to me during the festival. I will see a film that will make my spine tingle with its greatness, and I will leave the theater speechless."
The book is funny and passionate, a memoir/travelogue/love letter to the movies. This reprint includes Ebert's pen & ink sketches as well as Martin Scorsese's new foreword and a hilarious appendix by Ebert describing a dinner in Cannes with Scorsese in 1997.