Nicholas Ray

I Was Interrupted

Nicholas Ray on Making Movies

Edited, with an introduction by Susan Ray.

$26.95, £19.95 paperback

978-0-520-20169-9

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243 pages,
September 1993, Available worldwide
Categories: Cinema & Performance Arts; Film; Theatre; Autobiography

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"Susan Ray's introduction to Interrupted, the sharpest and most extensive and coherent portrait of Nicholas Ray so far, makes her book indispensable to Ray scholars."—Peter Hogue, Film Comment

"A fine piece of work."—American Cinematographer

"Now, at last, we have a book by and about Nicholas Ray (along with a moving and very beautiful introduction by Susan Ray). If you have any interest in this man, his life and work, filmmaking, or movies and art in general, read I Was Interrupted."—Jim Jarmusch

One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), he is also well regarded for his cult western Johnny Guitar (1954), and such prestigious noir classics as On Dangerous Ground (1951). I Was Interrupted offers a provocative selection of the filmmaker's writings, lectures, interviews, and more.

Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) was among the most gifted film directors to work in the postwar Hollywood cinema. His work was championed by the French critics of the Cahiers du cinèma. Susan Ray, the filmmaker's wife and collaborator, lives and writes in New York State.

The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall, 2nd Edition, by Geoff Andrew
Movies as Politics, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
In a Lonely Place, by Dana Polan