With six decades in show business; legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his lifeBorn to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression; Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills with actors and production; Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s; including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Wake in Fright; and North Dallas Forty. After directing the 1980s blockbusters First Blood and Weekend at Berniersquo;s; Kotcheff helped produce the groundbreaking TV show Law Order: Special Victims Unit. During his career; he was declared a Communist by the U.S. government; banned from the Royal Albert Hall in London; and coped with assassination threats on one of his lead actors.With his seminal films enjoying a critical renaissance; including praise from Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave; Kotcheff now turns the lens on himself. Witty and fearless; Directorrsquo;s Cut is not just a memoir; but also a close-up on life and craft; with stories of his long friendship with Mordecai Richler and working with stars like Sylvester Stallone; James Mason; Gregory Peck; Ingmar Bergman; Gene Hackman; Jane Fonda; and Richard Dreyfuss; as well as advice on how to survive the slings and arrows of Hollywood.
2016-10-24 2016-10-31File Name: B01M3WYP1Z
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