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Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge
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Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge Paperback - 2003

by Paul Auster

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  • Title Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge
  • Author Paul Auster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 375
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador, New York
  • Date 2003-12-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # m900124
  • ISBN 9780312423148 / 0312423144
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.53 x 0.93 in (21.79 x 14.05 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture plays
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003058231
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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From the publisher

From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster's novels earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s.

Smoke (starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways.

Set in contemporary Brooklyn, Smoke directly inspired Blue in the Face, a largely improvised comedy shot in a total of six days. A film unlike any other it stars Harvey Keitel, with featured performances by Roseanne, Lily Tomlin, Lou Reed, and Michael J. Fox.

Lulu on the Bridge (Auster's solo directorial debut, again starring Harvey Keitel, with Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe, and Vanessa Redgrave) opens with the accidental shooting of jazz musician Izzy Maurer during a performance in a New York club. Izzy is then led on a journey into the strange and sometimes frightening labyrinth of his soul. Both thriller and fairy tale, Lulu on the Bridge is above all a story about the redemptive powers of love.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/15/2004, Page 81

About the author

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Mdicis tranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He died at age seventy-seven in 2024.

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