Paul on Mazursky

Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s.

Mazursky's films are peopled with characters so raw, and so baffled by their own emotional tumult, their sincerity is as forceful as it is ridiculous.

This makes films like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, and Enemies, A Love Story difficult to classify, but all the richer.

In the first ever book-length examination of one of America's most important and least appreciated filmmakers, Sam Wasson sits down with Mazursky himself to eat, laugh, and talk movies.

Going over Mazursky's oeuvre one film at a time, interviewer and interviewee delve into how the director works with actors, his writing process, his admiration of Fellini, and the state of Hollywood today, among many other things.

The book includes a filmography and never-before-seen photos.