Barry Sonnenfeld, call your mother : memoirs of a neurotic filmmaker / Barry Sonnenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonnenfeld, Barry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sonnenfeld, Barry.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

Cinematographers--United States--Biography.

Cinematographers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hachette Books, 2020.

Summary:

"Film and television director and notable raconteur Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir, tracing his idiosyncratic upbringing in Washington Heights, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black, and beloved work like Get Shorty and A Series of Unfortunate Events"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Barry Sonnenfeld. Call your mother.

CM the CM, part 1

Depression central

White shirts

Can't be beat

Miami beach

Fear of flying

A Christian bar mitzvah

"My" dog

Eleanor Roosevelt

The button

The flip side

The promise of suicide

Yet more promised suicides

On the road : Barry does Kerouac

NYU Graduate Film School

Superman

Kidney stones

An actress short, a cum shot behind

Insult to injury

My life begins. I meet Sweetie.

The cash machine

Delores

The Coens

Blood simple

Big

Pay or play

Addams family

Sophie's choice

Kids

Get Shorty

A Christmas miracle

A final promise of suicide

Reenactors

Calabasas

Captain's table

CM the CM, part 2

Burying the lede

Epilogue: "A miracle is what seems impossible but happens anyway".

ISBN:

9780316415613

0316415618

OCLC:

1108525002