Yellow Cab
$34.17
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
A burnt out filmmaker finds new inspiration behind the wheel of an iconic New York City taxi cab, exploring a world where he is the stranger and the city his new workplace.
After 20 years working on film and series shoots, Benoît Cohen is drained. His enthusiasm gone, a desire to stop writing and put down the camera takes over. In the city for a year, he still wonders about how best to absorb the rich diversity of the cosmopolitan metropolis, settling on a simple idea—he will become a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781684058921 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1684058929 |
| Author: | Benoît Cohen, Christophe Chabouté |
| Publisher: | Idea & Design Works |
| Imprint: | Idea & Design Works |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 165mm |
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Critics Review
“A truly cinematic study of the grit and glory of the city.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Eisner winner Chabouté captures the restless spirit of New York City in this comics odyssey adapted from the 2018 memoirs of filmmaker Cohen. Chabouté’s wide, detailed panels and hallmark silhouetting portray the diversity of the five boroughs, with exquisitely lined architecture, subway cars, and vehicles in backdrop. It’s a truly cinematic study of the grit and glory of the city.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
About The Author
Benoît Cohen
Benoit Cohen is a French producer, filmmaker and writer, born in 1969. After studying architecture in Paris, he went to New York University to study filmmaking. When he came back to France, he started his own production company, Shadows Films. After a few short films, he directed his first feature film Cameleone in 1996. Between 2000 and 2014, Cohen made five other feature films (Our Precious Children, If You Love Me Follow Me…), few documentaries and three TV Series. He has been working with the same actors, and the theme of life choices appears throughout his film as a major question. Cohen’s last movie, You’ll Be a Man was a significant success in film festivals in the United States (more than 60 festivals and 39 awards) and is now on Netflix. In 2014, after moving in Brooklyn, Cohen drove a cab around the five boroughs, for a few months, in the perspective of writing a screenplay about a French actress becoming a taxi driver in New York. He wrote Yellow Cab, a book about his experience. A movie adaptation of the book is scheduled to be shot in the fall of 2018.
Christophe Chaboute published his first work, Stories, based on the work of Arthur Rimbaud, in 1993 in France. Since then, he has received numerous prizes for his very personal illustration and storytelling style. When Alone, a wholly original work of his, published in France, it was widely hailed as his masterpiece and was an Official Selection at France’s prestigious Angoulame International Comics Festival. He is the illustrator-storyteller of Park Bench.
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