The Greengrass Papers
A Film-Maker's Journery, to Bourne and Back
Will be published approx. on 5. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-571-37323-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Tom Shone is the film critic for the Sunday Times. He is the author of five books, including Tarantino: A Retrospective and Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Intelligent Life and Vogue. He lives in Lewes in East Sussex.