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Joan Didion is a Scriptwriter American born on 5 december 1934 at Sacramento (USA)

Joan Didion

Joan Didion
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Nationality USA
Birth 5 december 1934 at Sacramento (USA)
Death 23 december 2021 (at 87 years)
Awards National Book Award

Joan Didion, née le 5 décembre 1934 à Sacramento en Californie, États-Unis, est une écrivaine américaine, connue comme journaliste, essayiste et romancière.

Elle est considérée comme une muse et un auteur culte par des écrivains américains tels que Bret Easton Ellis ou Jay McInerney.

Biography

Elle fait des études supérieures à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley.

Elle amorce sa carrière en littérature avec la parution du roman Une saison de nuits (Run, River) en 1963, mais publie peu avant les années 1970 quand elle commence à écrire pour le cinéma. Elle est l'auteur de plusieurs scénarios pour le cinéma avec l'écrivain John Gregory Dunne auquel elle a été mariée pendant quarante ans. Son dernier essai, L'Année de la pensée magique, qui relate le décès de son époux, survenu en 2003 à la suite d'une crise cardiaque, a remporté le National Book Award.

Elle est la mère de Quintana Roo Dunne, qu'elle a adoptée à la naissance avec son mari, et qui est également décédée le 26 août 2005 d'une pancréatite aiguë à l'âge de trente-neuf ans, alors que Joan Didion était en promotion à New York pour L'année de la pensée magique.

Joan Didion vit à New York, dans un appartement de la 71e rue.

Best films

A Star Is Born (2018)
(Original Film Writer)
Up Close & Personal (1996)
(Scriptwriter)
A Star Is Born (1976)
(Ecrivain)

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Filmography of Joan Didion (7 films)

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Scriptwriter

A Star Is Born, 2h16
Directed by Bradley Cooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Ray Liotta, Bonnie Somerville, Sam Elliott, Rebecca Field
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating75% 3.7986453.7986453.7986453.7986453.798645
Star de country sur le déclin, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) découvre Ally Campana (Lady Gaga), une jeune chanteuse très prometteuse. Tandis qu'ils tombent follement amoureux l'un de l'autre, Jack propulse Ally sur le devant de la scène et fait d'elle une artiste adulée par le public. Bientôt éclipsé par le succès de la jeune femme, il vit de plus en plus mal son propre déclin.
Up Close & Personal, 2h4
Directed by Jon Avnet
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Fabian Forte, Kate Nelligan
Rating61% 3.0513553.0513553.0513553.0513553.051355
Sally 'Tally' Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an ambitious, aspiring news reporter, who is hired by Miami local news director Warren Justice (Robert Redford) when she sends in a homemade audition tape. He carefully guides her career to new heights, all the while becoming increasingly attracted to her. Tally soon rises through the ranks of network news to become successful, while Warren's once-stellar career sinks into mediocrity. Furthermore, Tally's ascension takes her away from Warren when she is forced to relocate to Philadelphia. Tally struggles at her new post, in no small part due to the hostility of veteran reporter Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing), who jealously protects her position as the top reporter. Warren turns up to inspire Tally, and the two partners begin a new career together. However, on a routine assignment in a Philadelphia prison, Tally and her cameraman are taken hostage in a prison riot and forced to endure hours of intense violence. Tally covers the groundbreaking story from within the walls of the collapsing prison as Warren looks on from outside, guiding her through her first national broadcast. This incredible act of bravery leads to Tally's eagerly anticipated advancement to a national network newscaster position and the continuation of the dynamic duo's rise to fame - but shortly after, disaster strikes when Warren is killed during an assignment.
True Confessions, 1h44
Directed by Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Kenneth McMillan, Ed Flanders, Cyril Cusack
Rating62% 3.147843.147843.147843.147843.14784
In the post-war 1940s, Desmond Spellacy is a young and ambitious Roman Catholic monsignor in the Los Angeles archdiocese. His older brother Tom is a hard-working homicide detective with the L.A. police department. They are fond of each other, but spend little time together.
A Star Is Born, 2h20
Directed by Frank Pierson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Barbra Streisand, Gary Busey, Paul Mazursky, Robert Englund, Joanne Linville
Roles Ecrivain
Rating60% 3.0490253.0490253.0490253.0490253.049025
Esther Hoffman, an aspiring singer/songwriter, meets John Norman Howard, a famous, successful and self-destructive singer/songwriter rock star, whom, after a series of coincidental meetings, she finally starts dating. Believing in her talent, John gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his.
Play It as It Lays, 1h39
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Norman Foster, Adam Roarke, Tammy Grimes, Ruth Ford
Roles Novel
Rating63% 3.195073.195073.195073.195073.19507
Maria Wyeth, who comes from a Nevada town with a population of 28, is now a successful actress. But she is unhappily married to, and separated from, temperamental producer Carter Lang and also chronically depressed and institutionalized.
Such Good Friends, 1h41
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard, Nina Foch, Laurence Luckinbill
Rating59% 2.99742.99742.99742.99742.9974
Manhattanite Julie Messinger, a complacent housewife and mother of two raucous young sons, is married to Richard, a chauvinistic and self-centered magazine art director and author of a best-selling children's book. When he falls into a coma during minor surgery to remove a nonmalignant mole on his neck, Julie learns from his doctor, Dr. Timmy Spector, that another surgeon nicked his artery, necessitating a blood transfusion to which he had a rare allergic reaction. The following day, Julie is told Richard has overcome the reaction, but his liver has sustained serious damage requiring immediate treatment. In quick succession, all his organs begin to fail.
The Panic in Needle Park, 1h50
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Richard Bright, Raúl Juliá, Kiel Martin, Joe Santos
Rating70% 3.547283.547283.547283.547283.54728
In New York City, soft-spoken Helen returns to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend Marco after enduring an unhygienic and inept abortion. Although Helen becomes ill from the procedure, Marco is satisfied because he was able to procure the abortion through bartering, and thus did not have to expend any money. When Marco leaves briefly to collect some cash, Bobby, an amiable small-time drug dealer to whom Marco owes money, shows unexpected gentleness and concern for Helen. Soon after, when Helen is hospitalized for profuse bleeding, Bobby sneaks in after visiting hours and tells her that Marco has gone away. Briefly, Helen considers returning to her dysfunctional family in Fort Wayne, Indiana. However, after she is released from the hospital, she moves in with Bobby. As they are walking together, Bobby steals a television out of a parked van and pawns it for money to buy drugs. At his apartment, Bobby declines Helen's invitation to have sex until she feels better. When she awakens to find him taking drugs, he explains that he is not an addict, but only "chipping.