{"product_id":"directors-cut","title":"Director's Cut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWeekend at Bernie’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFirst Blood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Order: SVU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, the legendary director recounts his journey and wide-ranging career in this intimate memoir . . . with a foreword by Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“It is a fascinating, startling thing to look over the films Ted has made and realize that he never met a genre he couldn’t conquer.” ― Richard Dreyfuss, Academy Award-winning actor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“It is for such insights into the director’s craft that Ted Kotcheff’s digressive, sometimes salty \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDirector’s Cut: My Life in Film\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a book to be valued . . . a bounty of no-nonsense homiletics on the duty of the director and regular injections of salacious gossip.” ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFilm Comment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn 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. Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWake in Fright\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNorth Dallas Forty\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter directing the 1980s blockbusters \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFirst Blood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWeekend at Bernie’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Kotcheff helped produce the groundbreaking TV show \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Order: Special Victims Unit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith his seminal films enjoying a critical renaissance, including praise from Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave, Kotcheff now turns the lens on himself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDirector’s Cut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not just a memoir, but 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, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Hackman, Jane Fonda, and Richard Dreyfuss, as well as advice on how to survive the slings and arrows of Hollywood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaguar Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53285223727418,"sku":"9781770413610","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1765\/3531\/files\/Directors-Cut.png?v=1775585596","url":"https:\/\/shop.tiff.net\/products\/directors-cut","provider":"TIFF Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}