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DVDs & Books
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To purchase DVD copies of Alexander Stuart's films, please click on this link to the Internet Movie Database/Amazon.com
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Tim Roth's movie of The War Zone was scripted by Stuart from his novel. The film stars Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont and Freddie Cunliffe, and is available on DVD and VHS in the US, UK, France and Canada. Click on the link above to purchase copies.
"A film of haunting power" - Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Two thumbs up! A great movie. Tim Roth takes a story filled with hazards and tells it triumphantly" - Rogert Ebert & The Movies
"Fueled by a quartet of stunning performances and a remarkably lean script by Alexander Stuart (based on his novel), The War Zone is one of the year's best films - but it's definitely not one for the faint of heart" - Time Out New York
"A superior, brooding family drama worthy of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams" - Daily Variety
Official Selection:
Sundance Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
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Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, from a script by Terry Johnson, based on his play, was executive produced by Stuart. The film stars Theresa Russell, Michael Emil, Gary Busey and Tony Curtis, and is available on DVD and VHS in the US, UK and Germany. Click on the link above to purchase copies.
"Set in 1953, Insignificance opens as Marilyn Monroe (Theresa Russell) is filming the famous scene from The Seven Year Itch where her skirt is blown sky-high by air coming up from prop fans underneath the subway grating. Below, a movie grip looks directly up Monroe's dress and says, 'I saw the face of God.' The movie is filled with high comedy of this sort, the best of which is a sequence in which Monroe says to Einstein (Michael Emil), 'You honestly believe I understand relativity? Swear to God?' and then uses balloons and model trains to prove she does indeed" - Movieline
"An acting and writing tour de force. Russell doesn't imitate Monroe. She builds her performance from the ground up, and it works to hold the movie together... Roeg is a master of baroque visuals and tangled plot lines" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Roeg's directing style is rich, propulsive, wonderfully matched to the material. The apocalyptic finale is fully the equal of the house-destruction at the end of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. A not-to-be-missed experience " - Mark Harris, Boston (IMDb user review)
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To purchase The War Zone (novel and screenplay), Life On Mars, Henry and the Sea, Tribes and other books by Alexander Stuart, please click on this link to Amazon.com or check out www.bookfinder.com and www.alibris.com, as some of these titles are currently out of print.
A new fully revised 20th Anniversary edition of The War Zone, including both the British and American opening chapters and Alexander Stuart's Diary of the Making of the Film,
will be published in 2009.
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Henry and the Sea is the children's book Stuart wrote with his first son, Joe Buffalo Stuart, before Joe Buffalo's death from cancer at the age of five and a half.
The book details the adventures of a child diagnosed with a mysterious illness, who turns to the Sea - which talks back to him - for guidance and friendship.
Henry and the Sea was published in English, Spanish and Catalan. Pictured above is the Catalan edition, published by Edicions de la Magrana.
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Alexander Stuart's The War Zone has been translated into eight languages and published in the US, Britain, Europe, Israel and throughout the world. The novel was awarded the Whitbread Award for Best Novel, but was controversially stripped of the prize after politicking by one dissenting judge. The War Zone is listed in Bernard Grun's The Timetables of History, for its publication year, 1989.
"This is a pungent, shocking book, superbly written (sharp, sensuous, bitter)... I was horrified but seduced from first to last. The writing is remarkable" - Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange)
"The Catcher in the Rye of the 90s" - Time Out
From The War Zone:
"But wait a minute. None of this is going to mean anything unless I can make you understand how weird we all felt that afternoon, how watching a fresh little bastard come sliming into the world from the collective pool of your family blood makes you think about things you might otherwise not choose to consider.
We felt close, all right, but it was a closeness that cut through the bullshit of family life and suspended the rules. I'm talking about honesty.
And, you know, when you get down to it, honesty - life without the lies, the protective film of accepted behavior - is bloody dangerous."
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