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Intense insight into De Niro's method and mystique.

If you're a fan of iconic cinema, then delving into John Baxter's biography of De Niro might be akin to wandering a gallery of modern art. Baxter peels back the curtain on this method actor's notoriously private life and storied career with an almost forensic level of detail. It's a study of not just the actor's craft, but of the man who, away from the limelight, becomes an enigma worthy of the intense characters he portrays.

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ISBN: 9780006532309
Authors: John Baxter
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date of Publication: 2003-10-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography
Goodreads rating: 3.11
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The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and George Lucas. Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather II, Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, and Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers to work for old friends like Martin Scorsese, and has never played anything but 20th-century roles. John Baxter calls him ‘the archetypal empty bottle which only becomes visible when it’s filled by a role’: which makes him such a tempting subject for one of Hollywood’s finest historian/biographers. As well as his film roles, Baxter examines De Niro’s often controversial private life, his collaborations with directors like Martin Scorsese and performers like Harvey Keitel and Meryl Streep, and his increasingly ambitious off-screen activities.
 

Intense insight into De Niro's method and mystique.

If you're a fan of iconic cinema, then delving into John Baxter's biography of De Niro might be akin to wandering a gallery of modern art. Baxter peels back the curtain on this method actor's notoriously private life and storied career with an almost forensic level of detail. It's a study of not just the actor's craft, but of the man who, away from the limelight, becomes an enigma worthy of the intense characters he portrays.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.