Ron Hogan's THE STEWARDESS IS FLYING THE PLANE!: One of the Year's Most Fun Coffee-Table Books

Ron Hogan's THE STEWARDESS IS FLYING THE PLANE!

an illustrated history by Ron Hogan

"I think that all of us who began at that period, to varying degrees, had a sense of Hollywood history, much more than people today. Francis Coppola and Billy Friedkin and [Martin] Scorsese and I all had different people we liked in terms of past filmmakers, but we did have a sense of film history as well as film grammar that we drew on. That was part of the dynamic—everybody brought his more modern sensibility to bear, but it was definitely based on... a filmmaking technique that was tried and true." —From the opening conversation with Peter Bogdanovich

October 09, 2005

One of the Year's Most Fun Coffee-Table Books

Burt Lancaster & George Kennedy in Airport; Sun Ra & Ray Johnson in Space Is the Place

Publishers Weekly: "While the text is engrossing and written with verve, the photos are the real delight. Some are candid shots from the set, others promotional stills, and a few—enough, perhaps—are favorite scenes from favorite films (like M*A*S*H's version of the Last Supper [popup image]). As coffee-table books go, this is one of the year's most fun."

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Films of John Cassavetes and movies with fast cars.

Posted by editor at October 9, 2005 11:59 PM