Status Updates From A libro abierto (Memorias)

Utterly extraordinary. One of those books you want to finish but never want to end. Huston’s motion pictures speak for themselves - on every level - but his technical thought process is here, alongside the location dilemmas, power struggles, and starry name-drops: and that includes pretty much every creative intellect of the 20th century. Read it. Historian & Film-maker alike.

“For the better part of the last five years I have been living in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. When I first came here, almost thirty years ago, Vallarta was a fishing village of some two thousand souls. There was only one road to the outside world - and it was impassable during the rainy season.”