University Press of Kentucky Screen Classics Series is releasing Daniel Kremer's first book
Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films
on November 5, 2015. Award-winning biographer Patrick McGilligan is the
series editor at Screen Classics, and the Foreword of the book was
written by Piers Handling, head of the Toronto International Film
Festival. Learn more about the book
here and pre-order it on Amazon.com
here. The same press also published Nick
Dawson's
Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel and Marilyn Ann Moss's
Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director. Their recent releases include
Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, by Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo, and
Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance,
by Brent Phillips. Kremer's book, written and researched with the
collaboration and cooperation of Sidney J. Furie himself, details the
life of the venerable director of
The Ipcress File (1965),
The Leather Boys (1964),
Lady Sings the Blues (1972),
The Appaloosa (1966),
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970),
The Boys in Company C (1978),
The Entity (1982),
Iron Eagle (1986),
and many others. The book features interviews with Michael Caine, Rita
Tushingham, R. Lee Ermey, Billy Dee Williams, and many
others. A full-length biographical documentary film,
Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel!,
is also in production as the veteran director steps into making one
last personal film on a shoestring budget in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The title originates from the Frank Borzage quote, "When you make pictures for studios, you are just operating the
carousel, disengaged but vigilant. When you make personal pictures, you
fire up the carousel."
Stay tuned for further updates!
"How wonderful that there is finally a book about Sidney Furie, one of
the best directors in the whole of my career . . . and one of my
greatest friends. I wouldn't have had a career without him!" ―Michael
Caine
"One hell of a book on one hell of a director, with one hell of a career! I originally wanted to make The Godfather
with him but wound up working with him on two other pictures―and had
about as good a time as I ever had on a movie set. Sidney J. Furie is
one of the favorite directors of my career, and now, finally, there is a
book to tell his story. He has survived fifty years as a filmmaker on
grit, determination, and genius . . . especially genius!" ―Albert S.
Ruddy, producer of
The Godfather, The Longest Yard, and
Million Dollar Baby
Meanwhile, Kremer is signing with Oxford University Press, under series editor Gary Giddins (
Warning Shadows: Home Alone With Classic Cinema,
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of the Second Century), for his book on director Joan Micklin Silver (
Hester Street,
Chilly Scenes of Winter,
Crossing Delancey)
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