‘The Oliver Stone Experience’: Matt Zoller Seitz Gets Deep With the Auteur

“He’s a very conflicted guy, and there are a lot of areas where he’s contradictory, conflicted,” author tells TheWrap about the Oscar-winning filmmaker

The Oliver Stone Experience
Courtesy of Oliver Stone and Ixtlan Productions

Oliver Stone and Wes Anderson are about as stylistically different as two directors can be, but now they’ve both come under the watchful eye of Matt Zoller Seitz. When Seitz isn’t editing RogerEbert.com or writing about TV for New York magazine, he’s been chronicling filmmakers in a series of acclaimed books.

On the heels two acclaimed books about Anderson, Seitz returns with “The Oliver Stone Experience” (Abrams), hitting bookstore shelves the same week that Stone celebrates his 70th birthday and releases his latest film, “Snowden.” It’s a well-stuffed tome, chock-a-block with photos, archival material, and very revealing interviews with its subject.

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