What They Said:
 On: Not Quite A Memoir of Film,
Books, the World (2006)
"Judy Stone's book has an amazing
collection of characters. I wish I were one of them." Paul
Newman, actor/director
"We're ordering it! Thanks for the
grand work."Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
poet/artist, owner/publisher City Lights Books
"It's not just a book about movies.
It's about Judy's warp-speed curiosity with almost everything! Judy is a
power-pack of intellectual energy in need of release…" Sid
Ganis, producer and president of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
"Judy Stone is a wonderfully skilled interviewer with
an instinctive ability to put the question that unlocks defenses and coaxes
self-revelation." Steve Wasserman, former
editor, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Reel Prize Judy holding up her Mel Novikoff award, "given
for the way she has enhanced public knowledge of world cinema." Photo
Pamela Gentile
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"For
anyone who has enjoyed Judy Stone's perceptive articles over the years, this
book is a feast: a look back at several decades of writing and filmmaking.
The only problem is that it reminds you of all the books you wish you had read
and the films you wish you had seen. But still, in a world where there is more
culture than we can possibly take in, it's nice to have this kind of guidebook
to the highlights." Adam Hochschild, author
of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury
the Chains
"Judy Stone has the wit, the independence
and the journalistic guts to call the shots as she sees them. Her interviews
are smashing in their revelations."Studs
Terkel
 On: Eye
on the World: Conversations with International Film Makers (1997)
"Judy Stone knows about movies, she knows about politics,
she knows about life.Here in this informative and entertaining book, she brings
it all altogether." Jules Feiffer, cartoonist,
playwright
"In an age obsessed with trivia and celebrity, Judy Stone's
interviews are the perfect antidote." Adrienne Mancia, former
curator, Department of Film and Video, the Museum of Modern Art.
"Judy Stone has an eye for movies and a nose for politics.
Her interviews are not just good journalism (and terrific reading), they belong
to film history as well." J. Hoberman, film
critic , Village Voice
"…I learned much from this book." Daniel
Talbot, president, New Yorker Films
"Judy Stone's bright, exuberent, revealing conversations
illuminate more about American foreign filmmaking than any scholarly tome or
deadly serious exegesis about 'the cinema.' Sometimes funny, sometimes tongue-in-cheek,
always knowledgeable and intelligently written." Lawrence
Grossman, former president of PBS and NBC
News and author of "The Electronic Republic."
"A rarity among those who write about film, Judy Stone
has a genuine and all-too-rare curiosity about the world — not only the 'world
of film.' She's also got a tremendous knack for getting people to open up and
talk about themselves and their work — and that usually makes her interviews
keenly rewarding.' Peter Scarlet,
former artistic director, San Francisco International Film Festival (and now
with Tribeca in New York.)
 On: The
Mystery of B. Traven (1977 and back-in-print 2001)
"I am amazed at your insights and the acuteness with
which you describe those eventful and frightening days in Munich; all the people
you mention come back to me — their faces, their fates, their relations — You
make the man (Traven) come alive, but all the same, nothing has been omitted
from his riddle and wonder." Marta (Mrs. Lion) Feuchtwanger
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
My first movie review
"Nothing to say when a soul-eyed eighth grader writes
like this." Isidor Glassman,
class advisor
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