The Greengrass Papers - by Tom Shone (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A Times and Sight and Sound Book of the Year

SECRETS AND LIES. CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP. TIPPING POINT AND REVOLUTION. Where the redactions end, a Paul Greengrass film begins.

A graduate of Granada Television's award-winning World in Action investigative reporting team, Paul Greengrass has become one of the most successful and influential film-makers to come out of the British Isles. His films - including The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and Captain Phillips - pack all the punch of news reports, taking more than a billion dollars at the box office and forever changing the way Hollywood makes movies.

Granting access to his personal archive for the first time to film critic and historian Tom Shone, Greengrass lays bare the roots of his obsessions and provides an exclusive inside track on his remarkable career.

Review Quotes

"Is Greengrass the most underrated British director of recent years? . . . Greengrass has built up a body of fascinating, immersive cinema. Tom Shone interrogates his career with a depth of insight that makes you want to revisit the work." - John Bleasdale, Sight and Sound Books of the Year

"A brilliant epic evocation of the uncompromising journey of the giant amongst us 'real life' filmmakers." - Mike Leigh

"Shone's wonderfully detailed, intimate book is the story of an artist's origin and process . . . Unique and fascinating." - Michael Mann

"All of Greengrass's prodigious talents are on spectacular display in this excellent book." - Jamie Lee Curtis

"Urgent and wise." - Matthew McConaughey

"A hell of a ride . . . the book is a thrill." - Sir Tom Stoppard