John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director

✍ Scribed by Tony Tracy, Roddy Flynn

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. This wide-ranging collection of new essays encompasses a variety of topics relating to Huston's lifestyle, political activities and cinematic legacy. Fresh analyses of such films as Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Misfits and Prizzi's Honor are included along with insightful studies of Huston's oft-overlooked literary adaptations In This Our Life, Moby Dick and A Walk With Love and Death. Also evaluated are Huston's controversial World War II documentary Let There Be Light, and two a clef portraits of the "real" Huston in the films The Way We Were and White Hunter, Black Heart. Bookending these essays are revealing interviews with John's actress daughter Angelica Huston and film producer Wieland Schultz-Keil.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
“Let’s Just See If It Matters”......Page 16
Strange but Close Partners......Page 29
The Ideological Adventure of The Man Who Would Be King......Page 40
The Way We Were and White Hunter, Black Heart......Page 54
Huston’s Mexico......Page 63
The Discreet Charm of Huston and Buñuel......Page 80
Huston and the American South......Page 90
Re-Visioning the Western......Page 101
Ethical Commitment and Political Dissidence......Page 118
King Adapter......Page 130
The Melodramatic Conscience of In This Our Life......Page 143
The Irish Accent of The Dead......Page 154
A Walk with Love and Death......Page 167
The Western, The Westerner, The Westernest......Page 180
John Huston and an Irish Film Industry......Page 192
Recollections of Huston......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 214
About the Contributors......Page 222
Index......Page 226