“I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what’s
behind it.”
–John Schlesinger
The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinema’s
most dynamic and influential artists. Now, in Conversations with
John Schlesinger, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesinger’s
nephew, reveals the director’s private world in a series of
in-depth interviews conducted in the later years of the director’s
life.
Here they discuss the impact of Schlesinger’s personal life on his
art. As his films so readily demonstrate, Schlesinger is a
wonderful storyteller, and he serves up fascinating and provocative
recollections of growing up in a Jewish family during World War II,
his sexual coming-of-age as a gay man in conformist 1950s England,
his emergence as an artist in the “Swinging 60s,” and the
roller-coaster ride of his career as one of the most prominent
Hollywood directors of his time.
Schlesinger also discusses his artistic philosophy and approach to
filmmaking, recounting stories from the sets of his masterpieces,
including Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday; Marathon Man; and
The Day of the Locust. He shares what it was like to direct such
stars as Dustin Hoffman, John Voight, Sean Penn, Madonna, and Julie
Christie (whom Schlesinger is credited with discovering) and offers
his thoughts on the fickle nature of fame and success in
Hollywood.
Packed with wit and keen insight into the artistic mind,
Conversations with John Schlesinger is not just the candid story of
a dynamic and eventful life but the true measure of an
extraordinary person.
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